diff --git a/src/OrchardCore.Build/Dependencies.props b/src/OrchardCore.Build/Dependencies.props
index edcdd73261a..c5fe7b7983e 100644
--- a/src/OrchardCore.Build/Dependencies.props
+++ b/src/OrchardCore.Build/Dependencies.props
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     <PackageManagement Include="OpenIddict.Core" Version="[3.0.0-rc2.20607.88]" />
     <PackageManagement Include="OrchardCore.Translations.All" Version="1.0.0-rc2-108003" />
     <PackageManagement Include="Serilog.AspNetCore" Version="3.4.0" />
-    <PackageManagement Include="Shortcodes" Version="1.0.0-beta-175913881" />
+    <PackageManagement Include="Shortcodes" Version="1.0.0" />
     <PackageManagement Include="SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web" Version="1.0.1" />
     <PackageManagement Include="xunit.analyzers" Version="0.10.0" />
     <!-- xunit downgraded due to Theory Skip bug c.f. https://github.com/xunit/xunit/issues/1782 -->
diff --git a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Shortcodes/Providers/LocaleShortcodeProvider.cs b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Shortcodes/Providers/LocaleShortcodeProvider.cs
index 2793860d285..0cfe75a58c9 100644
--- a/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Shortcodes/Providers/LocaleShortcodeProvider.cs
+++ b/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.Shortcodes/Providers/LocaleShortcodeProvider.cs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ public class LocaleShortcodeProvider : IShortcodeProvider
     {
         public const string ShortCodeIdentifier = "locale";
 
+        private static readonly ValueTask<string> Empty = new ValueTask<string>(String.Empty);
         private static readonly ValueTask<string> Null = new ValueTask<string>((string)null);
 
         public ValueTask<string> EvaluateAsync(string identifier, Arguments arguments, string content, Context context)
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ public ValueTask<string> EvaluateAsync(string identifier, Arguments arguments, s
             var language = arguments.NamedOrDefault("lang")?.ToLower();
             var argFallback = arguments.NamedOrAt("fallback", 1);
             // default value of true for the fallback argument
-            var fallback = argFallback == null ? true : Convert.ToBoolean(argFallback); ;
+            var fallback = argFallback == null ? true : Convert.ToBoolean(argFallback);
             var currentCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture;
 
             if (fallback)
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ public ValueTask<string> EvaluateAsync(string identifier, Arguments arguments, s
                 }
             }
 
-            return Null;
+            return Empty;
         }
     }
 }