From db3ad16fc093c73f348379eed072545999d93899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Webb <richard.webb@helpsystems.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:19:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Version.Parse check from global.json parsing

---
 RELEASE_NOTES.md                  | 1 +
 src/app/Fake.DotNet.Cli/DotNet.fs | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 06075509a46..469bf8d61b2 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## 6.1.1 - 2024-08-19
 * BUGFIX: Assembly resolver to pick a found SDK instead of first SDK - https://github.com/fsprojects/FAKE/pull/2797/files
+* BUGFIX: Fix issue parsing global.json when using prerelease .NET SDKs, thanks @numpsy - https://github.com/fsprojects/FAKE/issues/2803
 
 ## 6.1.0 - 2024-07-27
 * BUGFIX: MSBuild.build adds a bad string at the end of properties, thanks @0x53A - https://github.com/fsprojects/FAKE/issues/2738
diff --git a/src/app/Fake.DotNet.Cli/DotNet.fs b/src/app/Fake.DotNet.Cli/DotNet.fs
index 4224c5764d7..62e6a2c3eb2 100644
--- a/src/app/Fake.DotNet.Cli/DotNet.fs
+++ b/src/app/Fake.DotNet.Cli/DotNet.fs
@@ -69,10 +69,7 @@ module DotNet =
 
                 match sdk.Property("version") with
                 | null -> None
-                | version ->
-                    let versionValue = version.Value.ToString()
-                    let _ = Version.Parse(versionValue)
-                    Some versionValue
+                | version -> Some(version.Value.ToString())
             with exn ->
                 failwithf "Could not parse `sdk.version` from global.json at '%s': %s" globalJson.FullName exn.Message