diff --git a/contrib/make_nightly_build b/contrib/make_nightly_build
index b6aaf05..896b6dc 100755
--- a/contrib/make_nightly_build
+++ b/contrib/make_nightly_build
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ echo $title > "$release_notes"
 echo > "$release_notes"
 echo "changes:" > "$release_notes"
 echo > "$release_notes"
-git log "$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD" --pretty="format:%al %s" >> "$release_notes"
+git log "${last_nightly_version}..HEAD" --pretty="format:%al %s" >> "$release_notes"
 cat "$release_notes"
 
 gh release create "$VERSION" --repo "$repo" --notes-file "$release_notes" $DESTDIR/*