diff --git a/fn/release.sh b/fn/release.sh
index 8f0b9fa69..63da5c76b 100755
--- a/fn/release.sh
+++ b/fn/release.sh
@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@ echo "Version: $version"
 # make dep
 make release
 
+tag = "fn-$version"
 git add -u
 git commit -m "fn tool: $version release [skip ci]"
 # todo: might make sense to move this into it's own repo so it can have it's own versioning at some point
-git tag -f -a "fn-$version" -m "fn version $version"
+git tag -f -a $tag -m "fn version $version"
 git push
-git push origin "fn-$version"
+git push origin $tag
 
 # For GitHub
 # url='https://api.github.com/repos/treeder/functions/releases'
@@ -57,9 +58,9 @@ output=$(curl --request POST --form "file=@fn.exe" --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GIT
 win_markdown=$(echo "$output" | python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj["markdown"]')
 
 # 2) Create a release: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/tags.html#create-a-new-release
-release_url="https://gitlab-odx.oracle.com/api/v3/projects/9/repository/tags/$version/release"
+release_url="https://gitlab-odx.oracle.com/api/v3/projects/9/repository/tags/$tag/release"
 release_desc="Amazing release. Wow\n\nfn for Linux: $linux_markdown \n\nfn for Mac: $mac_markdown \n\nfn for Windows: $win_markdown"
-curl --request POST -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"tag_name\": \"$version\", \"description\": \"$release_desc\"}" $release_url
+curl --request POST -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"tag_name\": \"$tag\", \"description\": \"$release_desc\"}" $release_url
 
 # TODO: Add the download URLS to install.sh. Maybe we should make a template to generate install.sh
 # TODO: Download URL's are in the output vars above under "url". Eg: "url":"/uploads/9a1848c5ebf2b83f8b055ac0e50e5232/fn.exe"