diff --git a/builtin/providers/circonus/provider.go b/builtin/providers/circonus/provider.go
index 9796d6be0..5ccd2d9a4 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/circonus/provider.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/circonus/provider.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package circonus
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/circonus-labs/circonus-gometrics/api"
@@ -123,13 +122,5 @@ func providerConfigure(d *schema.ResourceData) (interface{}, error) {
 }
 
 func tfAppName() string {
-	const VersionPrerelease = terraform.VersionPrerelease
-	var versionString bytes.Buffer
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(&versionString, "Terraform v%s", terraform.Version)
-	if VersionPrerelease != "" {
-		fmt.Fprintf(&versionString, "-%s", VersionPrerelease)
-	}
-
-	return versionString.String()
+	return fmt.Sprintf("Terraform v%s", terraform.VersionString())
 }
diff --git a/builtin/providers/postgresql/provider.go b/builtin/providers/postgresql/provider.go
index a51aa6388..93bffd5ca 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/postgresql/provider.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/postgresql/provider.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package postgresql
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/errwrap"
@@ -109,13 +108,5 @@ func providerConfigure(d *schema.ResourceData) (interface{}, error) {
 }
 
 func tfAppName() string {
-	const VersionPrerelease = terraform.VersionPrerelease
-	var versionString bytes.Buffer
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(&versionString, "Terraform v%s", terraform.Version)
-	if terraform.VersionPrerelease != "" {
-		fmt.Fprintf(&versionString, "-%s", terraform.VersionPrerelease)
-	}
-
-	return versionString.String()
+	return fmt.Sprintf("Terraform v%s", terraform.VersionString())
 }
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index ecd5097f7..3986c1db8 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ export CGO_ENABLED=0
 
 # Allow LD_FLAGS to be appended during development compilations
 LD_FLAGS="-X main.GitCommit=${GIT_COMMIT}${GIT_DIRTY} $LD_FLAGS"
-# In relase mode we don't want debug information in the binary
+
+# In release mode we don't want debug information in the binary
 if [[ -n "${TF_RELEASE}" ]]; then
-    LD_FLAGS="-X main.GitCommit=${GIT_COMMIT}${GIT_DIRTY} -s -w"
+    LD_FLAGS="-X main.GitCommit=${GIT_COMMIT}${GIT_DIRTY} -X github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform.VersionPrerelease= -s -w"
 fi
 
 # Build!
diff --git a/terraform/version.go b/terraform/version.go
index 577dc85ab..181c1aa72 100644
--- a/terraform/version.go
+++ b/terraform/version.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const Version = "0.9.6"
 // A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 // then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 // such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-const VersionPrerelease = "dev"
+var VersionPrerelease = "dev"
 
 // SemVersion is an instance of version.Version. This has the secondary
 // benefit of verifying during tests and init time that our version is a
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index 31b54445d..4959e0fe2 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ import "github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
 var GitCommit string
 
 const Version = terraform.Version
-const VersionPrerelease = terraform.VersionPrerelease
+
+var VersionPrerelease = terraform.VersionPrerelease