// release is set by the linker on published builds

[mattysweeps]

In https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/stackdriver-tools/blob/v2.0.1/src/stackdriver-nozzle/version/version.go

There is this comment: // release is set by the linker on published builds
referring to an unexported variable release.

This needs investigation, ans I don't see anything touching this variable; it looks like it's always set to dev. Maybe the old CI updated this?