diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.sh b/.github/workflows/build.sh
index ad152bcbdca9..fd0a79906b1a 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/build.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.sh
@@ -5,20 +5,10 @@ ROOTDIR="$(dirname "$0")/../.."
 # shellcheck source=scripts/common.sh
 source "${ROOTDIR}/scripts/common.sh"
 
-prerelease_source="${1:-ga}"
-
 cd "${ROOTDIR}"
 
-# shellcheck disable=SC2166
-if [ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "develop"  ]
-then
-    echo -n >prerelease.txt
-else
-    # Use last commit date rather than build date to avoid ending up with builds for
-    # different platforms having different version strings (and therefore producing different bytecode)
-    # if the CI is triggered just before midnight.
-    TZ=UTC git show --quiet --date="format-local:%Y.%-m.%-d" --format="${prerelease_source}.%cd" >prerelease.txt
-fi
+# Build release version
+echo -n >prerelease.txt
 
 mkdir -p build
 cd build
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_ems.sh b/.github/workflows/build_ems.sh
index 5429da5fb016..d1de130dff1b 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/build_ems.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_ems.sh
@@ -5,20 +5,10 @@ ROOTDIR="$(dirname "$0")/../.."
 # shellcheck source=scripts/common.sh
 source "${ROOTDIR}/scripts/common.sh"
 
-prerelease_source="${1:-ga}"
-
 cd "${ROOTDIR}"
 
-# shellcheck disable=SC2166
-if [ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "develop" ]
-then
-    echo -n >prerelease.txt
-else
-    # Use last commit date rather than build date to avoid ending up with builds for
-    # different platforms having different version strings (and therefore producing different bytecode)
-    # if the CI is triggered just before midnight.
-    TZ=UTC git show --quiet --date="format-local:%Y.%-m.%-d" --format="${prerelease_source}.%cd" >prerelease.txt
-fi
+# Build release version
+echo -n >prerelease.txt
 
 # Disable warnings for unqualified `move()` calls, introduced and enabled by
 # default in clang-16 which is what the emscripten docker image uses.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_win.ps1 b/.github/workflows/build_win.ps1
index a3dd01dc3549..8b9fcaa5d66c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_win.ps1
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_win.ps1
@@ -2,18 +2,8 @@ $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
 
 cd "$PSScriptRoot\..\.."
 
-if ($Env:GITHUB_REF_NAME -eq 'develop') {
-	New-Item prerelease.txt -type file
-	Write-Host "Building release version."
-}
-else {
-	# Use last commit date rather than build date to avoid ending up with builds for
-	# different platforms having different version strings (and therefore producing different bytecode)
-	# if the CI is triggered just before midnight.
-	$last_commit_timestamp = git log -1 --date=unix --format=%cd HEAD
-	$last_commit_date = (Get-Date -Date "1970-01-01 00:00:00Z").toUniversalTime().addSeconds($last_commit_timestamp).ToString("yyyy.M.d")
-	-join("ga.", $last_commit_date) | out-file -encoding ascii prerelease.txt
-}
+New-Item prerelease.txt -type file
+Write-Host "Building release version."
 
 mkdir build
 cd build