diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c88aa90..0d6a7a7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "pybricks"
-version = "v3.5.0b1"
+version = "3.5.0b1"
 description = "Documentation and user-API stubs for Pybricks MicroPython"
 authors = ["The Pybricks Authors <team@pybricks.com>"]
 maintainers = ["Laurens Valk <laurens@pybricks.com>", "David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>" ]