diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-branch.yml b/.github/workflows/release-branch.yml
index 8e31b3cc6e..6f9b1f28ca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-branch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-branch.yml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: build libraries
         run: |
           set -u;
-          ./scripts/update-version.sh -gnu -nextalpha|| exit 1;
+          ./scripts/update-version.sh -gnu -nextalpha || exit 1;
           npx nx affected:build $NX_CALCULATION_FLAGS --prod --exclude="demoshell" --skip-nx-cache
           npx nx affected $NX_CALCULATION_FLAGS --target=pretheme
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
diff --git a/scripts/github/build/bumpversion.sh b/scripts/github/build/bumpversion.sh
index 2e0f699aae..c25c46dbb9 100755
--- a/scripts/github/build/bumpversion.sh
+++ b/scripts/github/build/bumpversion.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,5 @@ BRANCH=${GITHUB_REF##*/}
 if [[ $BRANCH =~ ^develop(-patch.*)?$ ]]
 then
     echo "Replace NPM version with new Alpha tag"
-    NEXT_VERSION=-nextalpha
-    ./scripts/update-version.sh -gnu $NEXT_VERSION || exit 1;
+    ./scripts/update-version.sh -gnu -nextalpha || exit 1;
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index c0e7850183..fcd7fdc85f 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ LICENSE_GREP=`escape_for_grep "$LICENSE_ROW"`
 LICENSE_README="$ROOTDIR/docs/license-info/README.md";
 LICENSE_GREP_RESULT=`grep "$LICENSE_GREP" "$LICENSE_README"`;
 
-#./scripts/update-version.sh -v $VERSION
-
 if [ -z "$LICENSE_GREP_RESULT" ];
 then
     echo -e "\e[33mAdding third party license info for version: $VERSION\e[0m"