diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 97ecb90177d..2df5155ecbb 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SHARED_LIB_VERSION=14:0:0
 NDB_VERSION_MAJOR=3
 NDB_VERSION_MINOR=5
 NDB_VERSION_BUILD=2
-NDB_VERSION_STATUS=0
+NDB_VERSION_STATUS=""
 
 # Set all version vars based on $VERSION. How do we do this more elegant ?
 # Remember that regexps needs to quote [ and ] since this is run through m4
diff --git a/ndb/src/common/util/version.c b/ndb/src/common/util/version.c
index ae699beca14..b8408c7f201 100644
--- a/ndb/src/common/util/version.c
+++ b/ndb/src/common/util/version.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Uint32 makeVersion(Uint32 major, Uint32 minor, Uint32 build) {
 
 char * getVersionString(Uint32 version, char * status) {
   char buff[100];
-  if (status)
+  if (status && status[0] != 0)
     snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff),
 	     "Version %d.%d.%d (%s)",
 	     getMajor(version),