diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9c144e73..1d5007ab 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ install-updater = false
 install-path = "~/.aiken/bin"
 # Whether to publish prereleases to package managers
 publish-prereleases = true
+# Temporary allowing the msi template to be dirty. cargo-dist==0.19.1 doesn't
+# like our tag format as it's unable to convert it for a Windows-suitable format.
+#
+# However, we cannot rollback to a previous version as we need some of the recent
+# fixes. So it's slightly annoying but we'll have to modify the wix template by
+# hand and likely drop this once we move to a different version scheme at the end of
+# alpha.
+allow-dirty = ["msi"]
 
 # Cargo-dist uses ubuntu-20.04 by default, causing issues in various cases
 # because it links with openssl-1.1 whereas recent distro ships with 3.x
diff --git a/crates/aiken/wix/main.wxs b/crates/aiken/wix/main.wxs
index df086ca2..53949f25 100644
--- a/crates/aiken/wix/main.wxs
+++ b/crates/aiken/wix/main.wxs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
         Manufacturer='Lucas Rosa; Kasey White; KtorZ'
         Language='1033'
         Codepage='1252'
-        Version='$(var.Version)'>
+        Version='1.0.30'>
 
         <Package Id='*'
             Keywords='Installer'