diff --git a/Directory.Build.targets b/Directory.Build.targets
index 7e26eef0a493cc..3b540f52aeddd4 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     <Product>Microsoft%AE .NET</Product>
     <!-- Use the .NET product branding version for informational version description -->
     <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(InformationalVersion)' == '' and '$(VersionSuffix)' == ''">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
-    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(InformationalVersion)' == '' and '$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
+    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(InformationalVersion)' == '' and '$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(InformationalVersion)' == '' and '$(VersionSuffix)' != ''">$(ProductVersion)-$(VersionSuffix)</InformationalVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
           AfterTargets="ResolveProjectReferences"
           BeforeTargets="FindReferenceAssembliesForReferences"
           Condition="'@(ProjectReference)' != '' and '@(_ResolvedProjectReferencePaths)' != ''">
-    <!-- If we have a ProjectReference to CoreLib, we need to compile against implementation assemblies, 
+    <!-- If we have a ProjectReference to CoreLib, we need to compile against implementation assemblies,
          and ignore architecture mismatches in those implementation assemblies. -->
     <PropertyGroup Condition="@(_ResolvedProjectReferencePaths->AnyHaveMetadataValue('MSBuildSourceProjectFile', '$(CoreLibProject)'))">
       <CompileUsingReferenceAssemblies Condition="'$(CompileUsingReferenceAssemblies)' == ''">false</CompileUsingReferenceAssemblies>
diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index b4fb0adcde0344..3d70db3fdbc1ad 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
     <PreReleaseVersionLabel>servicing</PreReleaseVersionLabel>
     <PreReleaseVersionIteration>
     </PreReleaseVersionIteration>
+    <IsServicingBuild>false</IsServicingBuild>
+    <IsServicingBuild Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing' or '$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'hotfix'">true</IsServicingBuild>
     <!-- Enable to remove prerelease label. -->
     <StabilizePackageVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == ''">true</StabilizePackageVersion>
     <DotNetFinalVersionKind Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true'">release</DotNetFinalVersionKind>
diff --git a/eng/packaging.targets b/eng/packaging.targets
index 2c8d30b905fe53..5f4fcf1dd868c2 100644
--- a/eng/packaging.targets
+++ b/eng/packaging.targets
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
                                         '$(IsRIDSpecificProject)' == 'true'
                                        ) and
                                        (
-                                        '$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' != 'servicing' or
+                                        '$(IsServicingBuild)' != 'true' or
                                         '$(PackageUseIncrementalServicingVersion)' != 'true'
                                        ) and
                                        '$(GitHubRepositoryName)' != 'runtimelab'">true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@
     <BuildProjectReferences Condition="'$(NoBuild)' == 'true'">false</BuildProjectReferences>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">
     <!-- In servicing, the live package is compared against the GA version in strict mode. -->
     <EnableStrictModeForBaselineValidation>true</EnableStrictModeForBaselineValidation>
     <!-- In servicing, disable the APICompat rule that validates that the assembly versions must match. -->
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CP0003</NoWarn>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing' and
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true' and
                             '$(PackageUseIncrementalServicingVersion)' == 'true'">
     <!-- If no servicing version is set we need to default to 0 in order for dependency versions to
     be calculated properly, if we don't set it to 0, we would get the dependency version using the
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
 
   <!-- Validate that ServicingVersion is set and packing is enabled.  Runs once in the outer build (or only build if no outer build exists). -->
   <Target Name="ValidateServicingProperties"
-          Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing' and
+          Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true' and
                      '$(PackageUseIncrementalServicingVersion)' == 'true' and
                      '$(DotNetBuildFromSource)' != 'true' and
                      '$(IsInnerBuild)' != 'true'"
diff --git a/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.props b/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.props
index 885f7f10739850..363956954cea17 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.props
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <!-- CoreCLR nuget packages shouldn't be published during servicing. -->
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">
     <IsShipping>false</IsShipping>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
diff --git a/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.targets b/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.targets
index 379fbd65030b32..80232b4242123b 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/src/coreclr/.nuget/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Central place to set the versions of all nuget packages produced in the repo -->
     <PackageVersion Condition="'$(PackageVersion)' == ''">$(ProductVersion)</PackageVersion>
-    <StableVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true' and '$(StableVersion)' == '' and '$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' != 'servicing'">$(PackageVersion)</StableVersion>
+    <StableVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true' and '$(StableVersion)' == '' and '$(IsServicingBuild)' != 'true'">$(PackageVersion)</StableVersion>
     <StableVersion Condition="'$(IsShippingPackage)' != 'true' and '$(MSBuildProjectExtension)' == '.pkgproj'"></StableVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
diff --git a/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj b/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
index 14936ccfa6479f..663c6df13d5002 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
+++ b/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>false</AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>
     <RuntimeMetadataVersion>v4.0.30319</RuntimeMetadataVersion>
     <!-- Override InformationalVersion during servicing as it's returned via public api. -->
-    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
+    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <!-- AD0001 : https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/90356 -->
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn),0419,0649,CA2249,CA1830;AD0001</NoWarn>
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
     <Compile Include="$(BclSourcesRoot)\System\ValueType.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(CommonPath)System\Collections\Generic\ArrayBuilder.cs">
       <Link>Common\System\Collections\Generic\ArrayBuilder.cs</Link>
-    </Compile>    
+    </Compile>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup Condition="'$(FeatureComWrappers)' == 'true'">
     <Compile Include="$(BclSourcesRoot)\System\Runtime\InteropServices\ComWrappers.cs" />
diff --git a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Directory.Build.props b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Directory.Build.props
index 005d6ae997adab..fb218eace55b3d 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/Directory.Build.props
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
     <!-- This prevents the default MsBuild targets from referencing System.Core.dll -->
     <AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>false</AddAdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences>
     <RuntimeMetadataVersion>v4.0.30319</RuntimeMetadataVersion>
-     <!-- Override InformationalVersion during servicing as it's returned via public api. --> 
-    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion> 
-    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion> 
+     <!-- Override InformationalVersion during servicing as it's returned via public api. -->
+    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
+    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn),0419,0649,CA2249,CA1830</NoWarn>
 
     <!-- Disable nullability-related warnings -->
diff --git a/src/mono/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj b/src/mono/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
index 229ae79f7f8cc1..30c3df905abdf7 100644
--- a/src/mono/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
+++ b/src/mono/System.Private.CoreLib/System.Private.CoreLib.csproj
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <ExcludeMscorlibFacade>true</ExcludeMscorlibFacade>
     <RuntimeMetadataVersion>v4.0.30319</RuntimeMetadataVersion>
     <!-- Override InformationalVersion during servicing as it's returned via public api. -->
-    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(PreReleaseVersionLabel)' == 'servicing'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
+    <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(IsServicingBuild)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <InformationalVersion Condition="'$(StabilizePackageVersion)' == 'true'">$(ProductVersion)</InformationalVersion>
     <!-- AD0001 : https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/90356 -->
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn),0419,0649,AD0001</NoWarn>