diff --git a/github/check.searx.update b/github/check.searx.update
index 4e85fa9..511fdd5 100755
--- a/github/check.searx.update
+++ b/github/check.searx.update
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ DEBUG=1
 script_wd=$(dirname "${0}")
 
 searx_install_dir="${1}"
-temp_searx_current_version=$(cd "${searx_install_dir}" || exit 1 ; grep "\(VERSION_MAJOR\|VERSION_MINOR\|VERSION_BUILD\) =" searx/version.py | cut -d\= -f2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | paste -sd "." - ; cd - > /dev/null || exit 1)
-searx_current_version="v${temp_searx_current_version}"
+searx_current_version=$(cd "${searx_install_dir}" || exit 1 ; grep "\(VERSION_MAJOR\|VERSION_MINOR\|VERSION_BUILD\) =" searx/version.py | cut -d\= -f2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | paste -sd "." - ; cd - > /dev/null || exit 1)
 
 searx_repo_url="https://github.com/searx/searx"
 searx_new_version=$("${script_wd}"/releasetags "${searx_repo_url}" | head -n1)