diff --git a/vaultwarden-updater b/vaultwarden-updater
index de13140..c081eaa 100644
--- a/vaultwarden-updater
+++ b/vaultwarden-updater
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function update_vaultwarden {
 }
 
 # retrieve local release
-local_release=$(/usr/local/bin/vaultwarden --version | awk --field-separator ' ' '{print $2}')
+local_release=$(/usr/local/bin/vaultwarden --version | awk --field-separator '-' '{print $2}')
 
 # retrieve the latest release
 latest_release=$(git ls-remote https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden.git HEAD | awk '{print substr($1, 1, length($1) - 32)}')