diff --git a/dashboards/victoriametrics.json b/dashboards/victoriametrics.json
index dcb95cdbc..3d8a6a1bc 100644
--- a/dashboards/victoriametrics.json
+++ b/dashboards/victoriametrics.json
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
           "uid": "$ds"
         },
         "enable": true,
-        "expr": "sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"}) by(version) unless (sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"} offset 20m) by(short_versionversion))",
+        "expr": "sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"}) by(version) unless (sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"} offset 20m) by(version))",
         "hide": true,
         "iconColor": "dark-blue",
         "name": "version",
diff --git a/dashboards/vm/victoriametrics.json b/dashboards/vm/victoriametrics.json
index a77231d78..1162eb3a7 100644
--- a/dashboards/vm/victoriametrics.json
+++ b/dashboards/vm/victoriametrics.json
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
           "uid": "$ds"
         },
         "enable": true,
-        "expr": "sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"}) by(version) unless (sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"} offset 20m) by(short_versionversion))",
+        "expr": "sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"}) by(version) unless (sum(vm_app_version{job=~\"$job\", instance=~\"$instance\"} offset 20m) by(version))",
         "hide": true,
         "iconColor": "dark-blue",
         "name": "version",
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d8a4c7a5..e546bb277 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ The sandbox cluster installation is running under the constant load generated by
 ## tip
 
 * BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle `avg_over_time({some_filter}[d]) keep_metric_names` queries, where [`some_filter`](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#filtering) matches multiple time series with multiple names, while `d` is bigger or equal to `3h`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5556).
+* BUGFIX: dashboards/single: fix typo in query for `version` annotation which falsely produced many version change events.
 
 ## [v1.97.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.97.0)