diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1cc62d9..1ce104c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     handling)
   add support for Solaris /dev/poll
   add lose32 support (broken, please don't use!)
+  head -1 -> head -n 1
 
 0.16:
   add buffer_fromsa (make buffer from stralloc)
diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 511bd5c..17105ac 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -f $(patsubst %.3,$(MAN3DIR)/%.3,$(notdir $(wildcard */*.3)))
 	rm -f $(LIBDIR)/libowfat.a
 
-VERSION=libowfat-$(shell head -1 CHANGES|sed 's/://')
+VERSION=libowfat-$(shell head -n 1 CHANGES|sed 's/://')
 CURNAME=$(notdir $(shell pwd))
 
 tar: Makefile clean rename