diff --git a/pmd/docs.sh b/pmd/docs.sh
index 405285327f..9f184bdef9 100755
--- a/pmd/docs.sh
+++ b/pmd/docs.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 DOCS_FILE="docs.tar.gz"
-currentVersion=5.0<
+currentVersion=5.0
 option="${1}"
 
 function tarball-docs() {
diff --git a/pmd/tool/shell/update_version.sh b/pmd/tool/shell/update_version.sh
index 5f80bbb7ba..6a020c68d5 100755
--- a/pmd/tool/shell/update_version.sh
+++ b/pmd/tool/shell/update_version.sh
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ update_regexp "tag>pmd_release_[0-9].*<" "tag>pmd_release_$release_tag<" tool/ma
 
 update_regexp "^  <version>[0-9].*<" "  <version>$1<" pom.xml
 
-update_regexp "^currentVersion=.*" "currentVersion=$1<" docs.sh
+update_regexp "^currentVersion=.*" "currentVersion=$1" docs.sh
 
 update_jar $1 etc/cpd.jnlp
 update_jar $1 xdocs/running.xml