diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 65186a25211..4a8a0267601 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Here is an overview of all new **experimental** features:
 - **General**: Fix CVE-2023-39325 in golang.org/x/net ([#5122](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5122))
 - **General**: Fix otelgrpc DoS vulnerability ([#5208](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5208))
 - **General**: Fix Pod identity not being considered when scaled target is a CRD ([#5021](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5021))
+- **General**: Fix release asset should specify the version in `keda-*-core.yaml`([#5484](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5484))
 - **General**: Prevented memory leak generated by not correctly cleaning http connections ([#5248](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5248))
 - **General**: Prevented stuck status due to timeouts during scalers generation ([#5083](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5083))
 - **General**: ScaledObject Validating Webhook should support `dry-run=server` requests ([#5306](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/5306))
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1421083157c..2bc37a494ad 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ release: manifests kustomize set-version ## Produce new KEDA release in keda-$(V
 	# Need this workaround to mitigate a problem with inserting labels into selectors,
 	# until this issue is solved: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/1009
 	@sed -i".out" -e 's@version:[ ].*@version: $(VERSION)@g' config/default/kustomize-config/metadataLabelTransformer.yaml
+	@sed -i".out" -e 's@version:[ ].*@version: $(VERSION)@g' config/minimal/kustomize-config/metadataLabelTransformer.yaml
 	rm -rf config/default/kustomize-config/metadataLabelTransformer.yaml.out
 	$(KUSTOMIZE) build config/default > keda-$(VERSION).yaml
 	$(KUSTOMIZE) build config/minimal > keda-$(VERSION)-core.yaml