diff --git a/ci/promote b/ci/promote
index 213462a..717ca01 100755
--- a/ci/promote
+++ b/ci/promote
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ __has_matching_counts () {
 __update_version () {
   local nextVersion=${1}
 
-  jq '.version = ${nextVersion}' "${PROJECT_HOME}/project-metadata.json" > "${PROJECT_HOME}/temp-metadata.json" \
+  jq --arg version "${nextVersion}" '.version = $version' "${PROJECT_HOME}/project-metadata.json" > "${PROJECT_HOME}/temp-metadata.json" \
       && mv "${PROJECT_HOME}/temp-metadata.json" "${PROJECT_HOME}/project-metadata.json"
 }