diff --git a/bin/omarchy-version b/bin/omarchy-version
index 4ac84815..5ddc823f 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-version
+++ b/bin/omarchy-version
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-git -C "$OMARCHY_PATH" describe --tags $(git -C "$OMARCHY_PATH" rev-list --tags --max-count=1)
+cat $OMARCHY_PATH/version
diff --git a/version b/version
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fe43e4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0.0-RC