diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 16524573..6ea7de87 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ WEBSITE_MANUALS_DIR="$(WEBSITE_SRC_DIR)/extra/manual"
 CDIST_DIR=../cdist
 CDIST_DOCS_DIR="$(CDIST_DIR)/docs"
 CDIST_HELPER="$(CDIST_DIR)/bin/build-helper"
-CDIST_CHANGELOG_VERSION=$(shell $(CDIST_HELPER) changelog-version '')
+CDIST_CHANGELOG_VERSION=$(shell $(CDIST_HELPER) changelog-version)
 CDIST_CHANGELOG_FILE="$(CDIST_DOCS_DIR)/changelog"
 CDIST_DOCS_HTML_DIST_DIR="$(CDIST_DOCS_DIR)/dist/html"
 CDIST_MAKE_VERSION=make -C "$(CDIST_DIR)" version