diff --git a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
index fb88e933e0aaf76da2492eb74dbb46b65c43721e..1112f4dab37761c79c5277f17cb823e3306d7733 100644
--- a/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
+++ b/cmake/GeoModel-version.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Set up the version of GeoModel as a cache variable, so that other
 # sub-projects could use this value.
-set( GeoModel_VERSION "4.2.0.0" CACHE STRING
+set( GeoModel_VERSION "4.2.0" CACHE STRING
     "Version of the GeoModel project" )