diff --git a/scripts/vars.js b/scripts/vars.js
index 34cb45a7..d482c199 100755
--- a/scripts/vars.js
+++ b/scripts/vars.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 const path = require('path')
 const fs = require('fs')
+const semver = require('semver')
 const childProcess = require('child_process')
 
 const appInfo = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../app/package.json')))
@@ -9,6 +10,10 @@ exports.version = childProcess.execSync('git describe --tags', {encoding:'utf-8'
 exports.version = exports.version.substring(1).trim()
 exports.version = exports.version.replace('-', '-c')
 
+if (exports.version.includes('-c')) {
+  exports.version = semver.inc(exports.version, 'prepatch').replace('-0', '-nightly.0')
+}
+
 exports.builtinPlugins = [
   'terminus-core',
   'terminus-settings',