diff --git a/__tests__/bin.test.js b/__tests__/bin.test.js
index 52f1f3703..6d48c8df9 100644
--- a/__tests__/bin.test.js
+++ b/__tests__/bin.test.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ describe('bin', () => {
       await new Promise(done => {
         exec(`node ${__dirname}/../bin/rdme`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
           expect(stderr).toContain(
-            `We're sorry, this release of rdme does not support Node.js v${process.version}. We support the following versions: ${pkg.engines.node}`
+            `We're sorry, this release of rdme does not support Node.js ${process.version}. We support the following versions: ${pkg.engines.node}`
           );
           done();
         });
diff --git a/bin/rdme b/bin/rdme
index 7e12550c7..1322fb4a8 100755
--- a/bin/rdme
+++ b/bin/rdme
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ updateNotifier({ pkg }).notify();
  * stop if we're being run with any Node version that we don't explicitly support.
  */
 if (!isSupportedNodeVersion(process.version)) {
-  const message = `We're sorry, this release of rdme does not support Node.js v${process.version}. We support the following versions: ${pkg.engines.node}`;
+  const message = `We're sorry, this release of rdme does not support Node.js ${process.version}. We support the following versions: ${pkg.engines.node}`;
   console.error(chalk.red(`\n${message}\n`));
   process.exit(1);
 }