diff --git a/epub2txt2.changes b/epub2txt2.changes
index 5fd845c..37036ed 100644
--- a/epub2txt2.changes
+++ b/epub2txt2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 30 00:04:30 UTC 2022 - Soc Virnyl Estela <socvirnyl.estela@gmail.com>
+
+- replace %{version} to a custom %{_commit_hash} to fix build errors
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 29 23:58:55 UTC 2022 - Soc Virnyl Estela <socvirnyl.estela@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/epub2txt2.spec b/epub2txt2.spec
index 074727d..3f84c2b 100644
--- a/epub2txt2.spec
+++ b/epub2txt2.spec
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #
 
 
+%global _commit_hash "10e9ac86df9a823d7470deaaa50c44d2857ee6f7"
+
 Name:           epub2txt2
 Version:        2.03
 Release:        0
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ Requires:       unzip
 Simple command-line utility for extracting text from EPUB documents
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
+%setup -q -n %{name}-%{_commit_hash}
 %autopatch -p1
 
 %build