diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 9f79c4512dd1d..a6e9e5612d4e0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -27,11 +27,22 @@ env:
 jobs:
   linux-windows:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      # Necessary for Docker manifest
+      DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL: "enabled"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      # If the event that triggered the build was an annotated tag (which our
+      # tags are supposed to be), actions/checkout has a bug where the tag in
+      # question is only a lightweight tag and not a full annotated tag. This
+      # command seems to fix it.
+      # https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/290
+      - name: Fetch git tags
+        run: git fetch --tags --force
+
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
           go-version: "~1.18"
@@ -133,6 +144,14 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      # If the event that triggered the build was an annotated tag (which our
+      # tags are supposed to be), actions/checkout has a bug where the tag in
+      # question is only a lightweight tag and not a full annotated tag. This
+      # command seems to fix it.
+      # https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/290
+      - name: Fetch git tags
+        run: git fetch --tags --force
+
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
         with:
           go-version: "~1.18"
@@ -210,14 +229,19 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - linux-windows
       - darwin
-    env:
-      # Necessary for Docker manifest
-      DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL: "enabled"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      # If the event that triggered the build was an annotated tag (which our
+      # tags are supposed to be), actions/checkout has a bug where the tag in
+      # question is only a lightweight tag and not a full annotated tag. This
+      # command seems to fix it.
+      # https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/290
+      - name: Fetch git tags
+        run: git fetch --tags --force
+
       - name: Docker Login
         uses: docker/login-action@v2
         with:
diff --git a/scripts/version.sh b/scripts/version.sh
index d924117fe9640..220da35328a27 100755
--- a/scripts/version.sh
+++ b/scripts/version.sh
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ if [[ "${CODER_RELEASE:-}" == *t* ]]; then
 	if [[ "$last_tag" != "$(git describe --always)" ]]; then
 		# make won't exit on $(shell cmd) failures, so we have to kill it :(
 		if [[ "$(ps -o comm= "$PPID" || true)" == *make* ]]; then
-			log "ERROR: version.sh attemped to generate a dev version string when CODER_RELEASE was set"
+			log "ERROR: version.sh: the current commit is not tagged with an annotated tag"
 			kill "$PPID" || true
 			exit 1
 		fi
 
-		error "version.sh attemped to generate a dev version string when CODER_RELEASE was set"
+		error "version.sh: the current commit is not tagged with an annotated tag"
 	fi
 else
 	version+="-devel+$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"