diff --git a/phpBB/composer.json b/phpBB/composer.json
index 4716f0770f..68d55b4d06 100644
--- a/phpBB/composer.json
+++ b/phpBB/composer.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 		"post-update-cmd": "echo 'You MUST manually modify the clean-vendor-dir target in build/build.xml when adding or upgrading dependencies."
 	},
 	"replace": {
-		"phpbb/phpbb-core": "@self.version"
+		"phpbb/phpbb-core": "self.version"
 	},
 	"require": {
 		"php": ">=5.3.3",