diff --git a/.github/workflows/aur-release.yml b/.github/workflows/aur-release.yml
index 696e7d6..ae16da2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/aur-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/aur-release.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       env:
         RELEASE_TAG: ${{ github.ref }}
       run: |
-        version=$(echo ${RELEASE_TAG} | sed 's#^.*v##g')
+        version=$([ -n "${RELEASE_TAG}" ] && (echo "${RELEASE_TAG}" | sed 's#^.*v##g') || (cat dotdrop/version.py | grep version |sed "s/^__vers.*= '\([^']*\)'/\1/g"))
         sed -i "s/^pkgver=.*$/pkgver=${version}/g" packages/arch-dotdrop/PKGBUILD
         cat packages/arch-dotdrop/PKGBUILD
     - name: Publish to aur