diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a276e71c5ce..e884e8f36a6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-08-29  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+	* src-release (VER): Strip any "-cvs" suffix from the version
+	number, if extracted from $(TOOL)/version.in.
+
 2013-02-15  Yufeng Zhang  <yufeng.zhang@arm.com>
 
 	* configure.ac: Sync with GCC repo.
diff --git a/src-release b/src-release
index cba43849241..e963aa98704 100644
--- a/src-release
+++ b/src-release
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ VER = `	if grep 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.*BFD_VERSION' $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null
 	elif grep AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE $(TOOL)/configure.in >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
 	  sed < $(TOOL)/configure.in -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE[^,]*, *\([^)]*\))/\1/p'; \
 	elif test -f $(TOOL)/version.in; then \
-	  head -1 $(TOOL)/version.in; \
+	  head -1 $(TOOL)/version.in | sed 's/-cvs$$//'; \
 	elif grep VERSION $(TOOL)/Makefile.in > /dev/null 2>&1; then \
 	  sed < $(TOOL)/Makefile.in -n 's/^VERSION *= *//p'; \
 	else \