diff --git a/.github/workflows/rpmbuild.yml b/.github/workflows/rpmbuild.yml
index 57c26ca3184..67b67d54007 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rpmbuild.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rpmbuild.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "LNAV_VERSION=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "version is: ${{ env.LNAV_VERSION }}"
+          make -C release lnav.spec
       - name: build RPM package
         id: rpm
         uses: tstack/rpmbuild@master
diff --git a/docs/02_downloads.md b/docs/02_downloads.md
index 7bf23c942d1..9c44192936a 100644
--- a/docs/02_downloads.md
+++ b/docs/02_downloads.md
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Install from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/lnav):
 $ sudo snap install lnav
 ```
 
+Install RPMs from [Package Cloud](https://packagecloud.io/tstack/lnav):
+
+```console
+$ curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/tstack/lnav/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
+$ sudo yum install lnav
+```
+
 ## MacOS
 
 <!-- markdown-link-check-disable-next-line -->
diff --git a/release/Makefile b/release/Makefile
index cd91b15abd7..f14174071b2 100644
--- a/release/Makefile
+++ b/release/Makefile
@@ -100,3 +100,6 @@ push:
 clean:
 	cd vagrant-static && vagrant destroy -f
 	rm -rf vagrant-static/pkgs
+
+lnav.spec: lnav.spec.in makespec.sh
+	./makespec.sh < lnav.spec.in > $@
diff --git a/release/lnav.spec b/release/lnav.spec.in
similarity index 98%
rename from release/lnav.spec
rename to release/lnav.spec.in
index dd5f254aab9..3e4e299dc12 100644
--- a/release/lnav.spec
+++ b/release/lnav.spec.in
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # published by the Open Source Initiative.
 
 Name:           lnav
-Version:        0.11.2
+Version:        @@LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER@@
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Logfile Navigator
 License:        BSD-2-Clause
diff --git a/release/makespec.sh b/release/makespec.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..a6cb6fc654d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/makespec.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+DEFAULT_VERSION=$(head -1 ../configure.ac | cut -d, -f2)
+DEFAULT_VERSION=${DEFAULT_VERSION#[}
+DEFAULT_VERSION=${DEFAULT_VERSION%]}
+
+if [ "$GITHUB_REF_TYPE" == 'tag' ]; then
+    export LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}
+else
+    export LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER="${DEFAULT_VERSION}^"$(date +%Y%m%d).git$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+fi
+
+sed -e "s/@@LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER@@/${LNAV_VERSION_NUMBER}/g"