diff --git a/lib/utils/read-json.js b/lib/utils/read-json.js
index fdaaea21..7d9b1e4b 100644
--- a/lib/utils/read-json.js
+++ b/lib/utils/read-json.js
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ function processObject (opts, cb) { return function (er, json) {
     if (cb) return cb(e)
     throw e
   }
+  json.version = semver.clean(json.version)
 
   if (json.main) json.main = json.main.replace(/(\.js|\.node)$/, '')
 
diff --git a/lib/utils/semver.js b/lib/utils/semver.js
index 0763978d..5199c7bc 100644
--- a/lib/utils/semver.js
+++ b/lib/utils/semver.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Object.getOwnPropertyNames(expressions).forEach(function (i) {
   exports[i] = function (str) { return (str || "").match(expressions[i]) }
 })
 exports.rangeReplace = ">=$1 <=$7"
-
+exports.clean = clean
 exports.compare = compare
 exports.satisfies = satisfies
 exports.gt = gt
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ exports.validPackage = validPackage
 exports.validRange = validRange
 exports.maxSatisfying = maxSatisfying
 
+function clean (ver) {
+  v = exports.parse(ver)
+  if (!v) return v
+  return [v[1]||'', v[2]||'', v[3]||''].join(".") + (v[4]||'') + (v[5]||'')
+}
 function valid (version) {
   return exports.parse(version) && version.trim().replace(/^[v=]+/, '')
 }