diff --git a/src/compiler/corePublic.ts b/src/compiler/corePublic.ts
index 31c852bdee6d4..8f0d74d978376 100644
--- a/src/compiler/corePublic.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/corePublic.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ namespace ts {
     // The following is baselined as a literal template type without intervention
     /** The version of the TypeScript compiler release */
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-inferrable-types
-    export const version: string = `${versionMajorMinor}.0-dev`;
+    export const version = "4.2.2" as string;
 
     /**
      * Type of objects whose values are all of the same type.