diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 512e57172..ef1e7d1a0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -133,26 +133,26 @@ jobs:
           username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USER }}
           password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Extract new image release version from Chart.yaml
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+
+      - name: Extract new app version from Chart.yaml
         run: |
           chart_yaml_path="./charts/managed-identity-wallet/Chart.yaml"
           
           # Use grep to find the line containing appVersion, awk to split by ":" and cut to remove leading/trailing spaces
           app_version=$(grep 'appVersion:' "$chart_yaml_path" | awk -F: '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,"", $2); print $2}')
 
-          echo "IMAGE_VERSION=$app_version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "RELEASE_VERSION=$app_version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Extract new image release version from Chart.yaml
+        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+        run: |
+          echo "IMAGE_VERSION={{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "LATEST_IMAGE_TAG=latest" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Extract new image pre-release version from Chart.yaml
         if: github.ref != 'refs/heads/main'
         run: |
-          chart_yaml_path="./charts/managed-identity-wallet/Chart.yaml"
-          
-          # Use grep to find the line containing appVersion, awk to split by ":" and cut to remove leading/trailing spaces
-          app_version=$(grep 'appVersion:' "$chart_yaml_path" | awk -F: '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,"", $2); print $2}')
-
-          echo "IMAGE_VERSION=$app_version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "IMAGE_VERSION={{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "LATEST_IMAGE_TAG=alpha" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Push image