diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index e5a47d35a..9077fd07a 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 	- ldns tarball updated with 1.4.1rc for DLV unit test.
 	- verbose prints about recursion lame detection and server selection.
 	- fixup BSD port for infra host storage. It hashed wrongly.
+	- fixup makedist snapshot name generation.
 
 17 December 2008: Wouter
 	- follows ldns makedist.sh. -rc option. autom4te dir removed.
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index 123ff4604..d72748718 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ fi
 
 if [ "$SNAPSHOT" = "yes" ]; then
     info "Building Unbound snapshot."
-    version2="$version_`date +%Y%m%d`"
+    version2="${version}_`date +%Y%m%d`"
     info "Snapshot version number: $version2"
 
     replace_text "configure.ac" "AC_INIT(unbound, $version" "AC_INIT(unbound, $version2"