diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
index cded7b2..d1b2faa 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
+++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@
 # phosphor-ipmi-fru-whitelist-native recipe.
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-ipmi-providers ?= "phosphor-ipmi-fru"
 
-PREFERRED_VERSION_phosphor-gpio-monitor = "1.0"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_phosphor-ipmi-host = "1.0"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_phosphor-dbus-monitor = "1.0"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_mboxd = "1.0"
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor.bb
index f9a2089..947c305 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/gpio/phosphor-gpio-monitor.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Application to monitor gpio assertions"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-gpio-monitor"
 PR = "r1"
-
+PV = "1.0+git${SRCPV}"
 LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig