diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index c8edb77ee..0a4257f7c 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ COPY . /workspace/
 
 COPY build_info.txt /workspace/
 
-COPY git_hash.txt /workspace/
-
 RUN cd /workspace && ./docker_build_script_ubuntu.sh
 
 RUN chmod -R a+rwx /workspace
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a7f0ba761..a066c891b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -52,11 +52,8 @@ build_info.txt:
 	@echo "build_user=\"`id -u -n`\"" >> $@
 	@echo "base_version=\"$(PACKAGE_VERSION)\"" >> $@
 
-git_hash.txt:
-	@echo "$(shell git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $@
 
-
-docker_build: build_info.txt git_hash.txt
+docker_build: build_info.txt
 ifeq ($(shell curl --connect-timeout 4 --write-out %{http_code} -sS --output /dev/null -X GET https://gcr.io/v2/vorvan/h2oai/h2oai-h2ogpt-runtime/manifests/$(BUILD_TAG)),200)
 	@echo "Image already pushed to GCR: $(DOCKER_H2OGPT_RUNTIME_IMAGE)"
 	docker pull $(DOCKER_H2OGPT_RUNTIME_IMAGE)
diff --git a/docker_build_script_ubuntu.sh b/docker_build_script_ubuntu.sh
index 5759eff16..76e103e06 100755
--- a/docker_build_script_ubuntu.sh
+++ b/docker_build_script_ubuntu.sh
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ pip install https://h2o-release.s3.amazonaws.com/h2ogpt/open_webui-0.3.8-py3-non
 
 # Track build info
 cp /workspace/build_info.txt /build_info.txt
-cp /workspace/git_hash.txt /git_hash.txt
 
 mkdir -p /workspace/save
 chmod -R a+rwx /workspace/save
diff --git a/src/utils.py b/src/utils.py
index 0a2883e2c..59e7ad104 100644
--- a/src/utils.py
+++ b/src/utils.py
@@ -408,13 +408,6 @@ def get_githash():
             githash = git_hash_unset
     except Exception as e:
         print("git failed to run: %s" % str(e))
-    if githash == git_hash_unset:
-        try:
-            with open('git_hash.txt', 'rt') as f:
-                githash = f.read().strip()
-        except Exception as e:
-            print("git_hash.txt failed to be found: %s" % str(e))
-
     if githash == git_hash_unset:
         try:
             from version import __version__
diff --git a/src/version.py b/src/version.py
index 4ec1da98a..7079c03e2 100644
--- a/src/version.py
+++ b/src/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "3618868401689179d98c95be3ecdcc64d44d2acd"
+__version__ = "4a8bda6fe1edf8ed37f619b250f66b11bd1b49c7"