diff --git a/harbour/ChangeLog b/harbour/ChangeLog
index d3dff47734..2a6bd641c0 100644
--- a/harbour/ChangeLog
+++ b/harbour/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
    2008-12-31 13:59 UTC+0100 Foo Bar <foo.bar@foobar.org>
 */
 
+2008-08-12 14:06 UTC+0200 Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl)
+  * harbour/make_rpmw32.sh
+  * harbour/make_rpmce.sh
+    ! fixed release number setting for empty harbour release string
+
 2008-08-12 13:00 UTC+0200 Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar hu)
    * contrib/hbhpdf/Makefile
      ! Fixed to find libharu headers in its current default 
diff --git a/harbour/make_rpmce.sh b/harbour/make_rpmce.sh
index 6e107cadde..e80bc3a0a5 100755
--- a/harbour/make_rpmce.sh
+++ b/harbour/make_rpmce.sh
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ cd `dirname $0`
 . bin/hb-func.sh
 hb_ver=`get_hbver`
 hb_verstat=`get_hbverstat`
+[ -n "${hb_verstat}" ] || hb_verstat="0"
 
 NEED_RPM="make gcc binutils bash cegcc-mingw32ce"
 
diff --git a/harbour/make_rpmw32.sh b/harbour/make_rpmw32.sh
index 18f0a2f52a..af70628dc3 100755
--- a/harbour/make_rpmw32.sh
+++ b/harbour/make_rpmw32.sh
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ cd `dirname $0`
 . bin/hb-func.sh
 hb_ver=`get_hbver`
 hb_verstat=`get_hbverstat`
+[ -n "${hb_verstat}" ] || hb_verstat="0"
 
 NEED_RPM="make gcc binutils bash"