diff --git a/nix/status-go/build-mobile-status-go.nix b/nix/status-go/build-mobile-status-go.nix
index 9e03c32f4b..d10e4e503b 100644
--- a/nix/status-go/build-mobile-status-go.nix
+++ b/nix/status-go/build-mobile-status-go.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 { stdenv, utils, callPackage,
   buildGoPackage, go, gomobile, openjdk, xcodeWrapper }:
 
-{ owner, repo, rev, version, goPackagePath, src, host,
+{ owner, repo, rev, version, sanitizedVersion, goPackagePath, src, host,
 
   # mobile-only arguments
   goBuildFlags, goBuildLdFlags,
diff --git a/nix/status-go/build-status-go.nix b/nix/status-go/build-status-go.nix
index 66d74fc1e0..968bffa29c 100644
--- a/nix/status-go/build-status-go.nix
+++ b/nix/status-go/build-status-go.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { buildGoPackage, go, xcodeWrapper, stdenv, utils }:
 
-{ owner, repo, rev, version, goPackagePath, src, host,
+{ owner, repo, rev, version, sanitizedVersion, goPackagePath, src, host,
   nativeBuildInputs ? [],
   buildPhase, buildMessage,
   installPhase ? "",
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ let
   args = removeAttrs args' [ "buildMessage" ]; # Remove our arguments from args before passing them on to buildGoPackage
   buildStatusGo = buildGoPackage (args // {
     pname = repo;
-    version = "${version}-${strings.substring 0 7 rev}-${host}";
+    version = "${sanitizedVersion}-${strings.substring 0 7 rev}-${host}";
 
     nativeBuildInputs =
       nativeBuildInputs ++
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ let
       return # make sure we stop fixup so as to not allow the host preFixup script to proceed
     '';
 
-    passthru = { inherit owner version rev; };
+    passthru = { inherit owner repo version rev; };
 
     meta = {
       # Add default meta information
diff --git a/nix/status-go/default.nix b/nix/status-go/default.nix
index fbe9e964bf..538fdc0ff1 100644
--- a/nix/status-go/default.nix
+++ b/nix/status-go/default.nix
@@ -43,13 +43,17 @@ let
         versionJSON = importJSON ../../status-go-version.json; # TODO: Simplify this path search with lib.locateDominatingFile
         versionRegex = "^v?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+(-[[:alnum:].]+)$";
         sha256 = versionJSON.src-sha256;
+        sanitizeVersion = builtins.replaceStrings
+          [ "/" ]
+          [ "_" ];
       in rec {
         inherit (versionJSON) owner repo version;
+        sanitizedVersion = sanitizeVersion versionJSON.version;
         goPackagePath = "github.com/${owner}/${repo}";
         rev = versionJSON.commit-sha1;
         shortRev = strings.substring 0 7 rev;
-        versionName = if (builtins.match versionRegex version) != null
-                      then removePrefix "v" version # Geth forces a 'v' prefix
+        versionName = if (builtins.match versionRegex sanitizedVersion) != null
+                      then removePrefix "v" sanitizedVersion # Geth forces a 'v' prefix
                       else "develop"; # to reduce metrics cardinality in Prometheus
         src = fetchFromGitHub { inherit rev owner repo sha256; name = "${repo}-${srcData.shortRev}-source"; };
       };
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ let
     "-w" # -w disables DWARF debugging information
   ];
 
-  statusGoArgs = { inherit (srcData) src owner repo rev version goPackagePath; inherit goBuildFlags goBuildLdFlags; };
+  statusGoArgs = { inherit (srcData) src owner repo rev version sanitizedVersion goPackagePath; inherit goBuildFlags goBuildLdFlags; };
   status-go-packages = {
     desktop = buildStatusGoDesktopLib (statusGoArgs // {
       outputFileName = "libstatus.a";