diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1e98986191..8c474b336e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 - Add new subcommand `nf-core tui`, which launches a TUI (terminal user interface) to intuitively explore the command line flags, built using [Trogon](https://github.com/Textualize/trogon) ([#2655](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2655))
 - Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.1.13 ([#2660](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2660))
 - Update actions/cache action to v4 ([#2666](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2666))
+- Remove redundanct v in pipeline version for emails ([#2667](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/2667))
 
 # [v2.11.1 - Magnesium Dragon Patch](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/releases/tag/2.11) - [2023-12-20]
 
diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.html b/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.html
index ecff600d44..56759fff65 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.html
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.html
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 <img src="cid:nfcorepipelinelogo">
 
-<h1>{{ name }} v${version}</h1>
+<h1>{{ name }} ${version}</h1>
 <h2>Run Name: $runName</h2>
 
 <% if (!success){
diff --git a/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.txt b/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.txt
index edc8f71016..25b12e8ce0 100644
--- a/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.txt
+++ b/nf_core/pipeline-template/assets/email_template.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   |\\ | |__  __ /  ` /  \\ |__) |__         }  {
   | \\| |       \\__, \\__/ |  \\ |___     \\`-._,-`-,
                                         `._,._,'
-  {{ name }} v${version}
+  {{ name }} ${version}
 ----------------------------------------------------
 {% endif -%}