diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13b0d910d..7582d6117 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+Bugfixes:
+- Use spago.cabal instead of package.yaml to get version number (#787)
+
 ## [0.20.1] - 2021-04-20
 
 Bugfixes:
diff --git a/scripts/get-version b/scripts/get-version
index 762637739..788fd8851 100755
--- a/scripts/get-version
+++ b/scripts/get-version
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-grep "version:" package.yaml | sed "s/version: *//g"
+grep "^version:" spago.cabal | sed "s/version: *//g"