diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
index fbf5242..b9fc15e 100644
--- a/RELEASING.md
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 # Releasing
 
 Steps for releasing:
-1. Update version in `build.sbt` file.
-
-2. Run `release.sh $VERSION$` with version of msocket
+1. Run `release.sh $VERSION$` with version of msocket
 **Note:** `PROD=true` environment variable needs to be set before running `release.sh`
 
-3. update msocket tag version in csw, esw
+2. update msocket tag version in csw, esw
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index a784a44..8a56e56 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ inThisBuild(
     // jitpack provides the env variable VERSION=<version being built> # A tag or commit
     // we make use of it so that the version in class metadata (this.getClass.getPackage.getSpecificationVersion)
     // and the maven repo match
-    version           := sys.env.getOrElse("VERSION", "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"),
+    version           := sys.env.getOrElse("JITPACK_VERSION", "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"),
     organization      := "com.github.tmtsoftware.msocket",
     organizationName  := "ThoughtWorks",
     scalafmtOnCompile := true,
diff --git a/jitpack.yml b/jitpack.yml
index ae825e6..4ce0f1b 100644
--- a/jitpack.yml
+++ b/jitpack.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 jdk:
   - adoptopenjdk11
 before_install:
+  - export JITPACK_VERSION=$VERSION
   - wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-sbt/sbt-launch/1.6.1/sbt-launch-1.6.1.jar
 install:
   - java -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m -jar sbt-launch-1.6.1.jar -Dsbt.log.noformat=true clean publishM2