diff --git a/bin/version b/bin/version
index 0835db2b4015497bf11a336789550d6b7f5e8c1c..16925539d1d2754a760a7ecd800f875624ffc3e8 100755
--- a/bin/version
+++ b/bin/version
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# Return the version string used to describe this version of Metabase.
+VERSION="v0.15.0-snapshot"
 
-TAG=$(git name-rev --tags --name-only HEAD)
-TAG=${TAG%^0}
+# dynamically pull more interesting stuff from latest git commit
 HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)            # first 7 letters of hash should be enough; that's what GitHub uses
 BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
 DATE=$(git log -1 --pretty=%ad --date=short)
 
-echo "$TAG $HASH $BRANCH $DATE"
+
+# Return the version string used to describe this version of Metabase.
+echo "$VERSION $HASH $BRANCH $DATE"