diff --git a/update-from-repo.sh b/update-from-repo.sh
index e277478d0..ba27d7b2d 100755
--- a/update-from-repo.sh
+++ b/update-from-repo.sh
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
 
         ####################
         # start processing pulled source
-        version="`head -c -1 ${TEMP}/version`.`cd ${TEMP}; ${GIT} log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:'%m%d.%H%M'`" 
+        version="`head -c -1 ${TEMP}/version`-`cd ${TEMP}; ${GIT} log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:'%m%d.%H%M'`" 
         if [[ "${LANG}" != "YES" ]]; then
           ###############
           # FULL update
diff --git a/webmin/webmin-lib.pl b/webmin/webmin-lib.pl
index 42987a7c9..5494e6058 100755
--- a/webmin/webmin-lib.pl
+++ b/webmin/webmin-lib.pl
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ Rounds a version number down to the nearest .01
 =cut
 sub base_version
 {
+#remove waning about (possible) postfixes from update-from-repo.sh
+$_[0] =~ s/[-a-z:_].*//gi;
 return sprintf("%.2f0", $_[0]);
 }