diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 14ec987..1fcf34d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sources mentioned above, and compile with
 
 A typical installation from the release binaries might look like the following:
 ```shell script
-export WASI_VERSION=12
+export WASI_VERSION=13
 export WASI_VERSION_FULL=${WASI_VERSION}.0
 wget https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/download/wasi-sdk-${WASI_VERSION}/wasi-sdk-${WASI_VERSION_FULL}-linux.tar.gz
 tar xvf wasi-sdk-${WASI_VERSION_FULL}-linux.tar.gz
diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 49852ce..c2c203b 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
 GIT_DESCR=$(git describe --long --candidates=999 --match='wasi-sdk-*' --dirty='+m' --abbrev=13)
-GIT_PACKAGE_VERSION=$(echo $GIT_DESCR | perl -ne 'if(/^wasi-sdk-(\d+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]{7,12})([+]m)?$/) { if($2 == 0) { print "$1.$2$4" } else { print "$1.$2g$3$4" } exit } else { print "could not parse git description"; exit 1 }';)
+GIT_PACKAGE_VERSION=$(echo $GIT_DESCR | perl -ne 'if(/^wasi-sdk-(\d+)-(\d+)-g([0-9a-f]{7,13})([+]m)?$/) { if($2 == 0) { print "$1.$2$4" } else { print "$1.$2g$3$4" } exit } else { print "could not parse git description"; exit 1 }';)
 echo $GIT_PACKAGE_VERSION