diff --git a/cli/root.go b/cli/root.go
index 0b8e59b..76f2904 100644
--- a/cli/root.go
+++ b/cli/root.go
@@ -14,19 +14,18 @@ import (
 	"git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/flucky/cli/sensor"
 	"git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/flucky/cli/temperature"
 	"git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/flucky/pkg/config"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/semver"
 
 	uuid "github.com/satori/go.uuid"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
 // Execute a
-func Execute(version *semver.Version) error {
+func Execute(version string) error {
 
 	rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:               "flucky",
 		PersistentPreRunE: preRunError,
-		Version:           version.String(),
+		Version:           version,
 	}
 
 	defaultConfigFile, err := getDefaultConfigFile()
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 4c9f86e..f9213f9 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ require (
 	git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/dockerutils v0.2.0
 	git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/go-dht v0.1.2
 	git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/go-logger v0.1.0
-	github.com/Masterminds/semver v1.5.0
 	github.com/d2r2/go-bsbmp v0.0.0-20190515110334-3b4b3aea8375
 	github.com/d2r2/go-i2c v0.0.0-20191123181816-73a8a799d6bc
 	github.com/d2r2/go-logger v0.0.0-20181221090742-9998a510495e
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 609b0ef..bc6d23b 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm v0.0.0-20170929234023-d6e3b3328b78/go.mod h1:LmzpDX
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1/go.mod h1:xHWCNGjB5oqiDr8zfno3MHue2Ht5sIBksp03qcyfWMU=
 github.com/BurntSushi/xgb v0.0.0-20160522181843-27f122750802/go.mod h1:IVnqGOEym/WlBOVXweHU+Q+/VP0lqqI8lqeDx9IjBqo=
 github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go v1.3.12/go.mod h1:EaI/sW7Azgz9UATzd5ZdZHRUhHgv5+JMS9NSr2smCJI=
-github.com/Masterminds/semver v1.5.0 h1:H65muMkzWKEuNDnfl9d70GUjFniHKHRbFPGBuZ3QEww=
-github.com/Masterminds/semver v1.5.0/go.mod h1:MB6lktGJrhw8PrUyiEoblNEGEQ+RzHPF078ddwwvV3Y=
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.4.15-0.20190919025122-fc70bd9a86b5/go.mod h1:tTuCMEN+UleMWgg9dVx4Hu52b1bJo+59jBh3ajtinzw=
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.4.16 h1:FtSW/jqD+l4ba5iPBj9CODVtgfYAD8w2wS923g/cFDk=
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.4.16/go.mod h1:XB6nPKklQyQ7GC9LdcBEcBl8PF76WugXOPRXwdLnMv0=
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index d149ca3..466287e 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"log"
-	"os"
-
 	"git.cryptic.systems/volker.raschek/flucky/cli"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/semver"
 
 	_ "github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4/database/postgres"
 	_ "github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4/database/sqlite3"
@@ -18,11 +14,5 @@ var (
 )
 
 func main() {
-	sversion, err := semver.NewVersion(version)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("The sematic versioning is invalid: %v", version)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	cli.Execute(sversion)
+	cli.Execute(version)
 }