diff --git a/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/CHECKSUMS b/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/CHECKSUMS
index 7891f607bd..c155a5f0fd 100644
--- a/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/CHECKSUMS
+++ b/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/CHECKSUMS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-c99005ad01faddc531a7823c703e69aad172a2a76480e0e103347489a33893ba  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-amd64/bottlerocket-bootstrap
+04741f6569abd5ee0fbda4a47fb424c14e9930dbdc665238cc8e27ceb675eb53  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-amd64/bottlerocket-bootstrap
 1fd36d9a1080f1ec489f0402fec9a7ab6c7cc68ae607babcb82ab55103c53558  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-amd64/bottlerocket-bootstrap-snow
-65f77aa86aa088ddb3ade1f107e0be93dc65fcefb06045e0c3347a48594557b0  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-arm64/bottlerocket-bootstrap
+688205c8ed160ba21a8f695d62a3fc98ad1ac344b7ff4df4ad95578286594bb4  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-arm64/bottlerocket-bootstrap
 9b7d5023b692b488281f8b61aebb46fa7bf50338a4dc224624eac63661f8b65a  _output/bin/bottlerocket-bootstrap/linux-arm64/bottlerocket-bootstrap-snow
diff --git a/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/pkg/kubeadm/controlplane_init.go b/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/pkg/kubeadm/controlplane_init.go
index 46ea0f5dac..a5879b4af0 100644
--- a/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/pkg/kubeadm/controlplane_init.go
+++ b/projects/aws/bottlerocket-bootstrap/pkg/kubeadm/controlplane_init.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func controlPlaneInit() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "Error running command: %v, Output: %s\n", cmd, string(out))
 	}
-	kubeadmVersion, err := versionutil.ParseSemantic(strings.TrimSuffix(string(out), "\n"))
+	kubeadmVersion, err := versionutil.ParseGeneric(strings.TrimSuffix(string(out), "\n"))
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "%s is not a valid kubeadm version", string(out))
 	}