diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cb9c503..1a0b5be 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ all $(NODEUNIT):
 .PHONY: versioncheck
 versioncheck:
 	@echo version is: $(shell cat package.json | json version)
-	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^## ' CHANGES.md | head -1 | awk '{print $$3}'` ]]
+	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^## ' CHANGES.md | head -1 | awk '{print $$2}'` ]]
 	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^var VERSION' bin/bunyan | awk -F"'" '{print $$2}'` ]]
 	[[ `cat package.json | json version` == `grep '^var VERSION' lib/bunyan.js | awk -F"'" '{print $$2}'` ]]
 	@echo Version check ok.