diff --git a/update-gitea.pl b/update-gitea.pl
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 1cd12a5..5859bbf
--- a/update-gitea.pl
+++ b/update-gitea.pl
@@ -25,16 +25,27 @@ my $filetype='-linux-amd64.xz';
 # https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest
 my $gitea_bin = '/home/gitea/bin/gitea';
 my $gitea_current_version_string = `$gitea_bin --version`;
+
+unless ( defined $gitea_current_version_string ) {
+     die "ERROR: Unable to get the version of the gitea binary: $!";
+}
+
 my $gitea_current_version;
-if ( $gitea_current_version_string =~ m/ion\ (\d+\.\d+\.\d*)\s+b/ ) {
+if ( $gitea_current_version_string =~ m/ion\ (\d+\.\d+\.\d*)\s/ ) {
     $gitea_current_version = $1;
+    printf("Current version of gitea that is installed is $1\n");
+}
+elsif ( $gitea_current_version_string =~ m/ion\ (\d+\d+\w*)\s/ ) {
+    $gitea_current_version = $1;
+    printf("Current version of gitea that is installed is $1\n");
 }
 my %binary_file = (
     input  => $gitea_bin,
     version => $gitea_current_version,
   );
-
-printf("The version of gitea that is running is \"$gitea_current_version\"\n");
+unless ( defined $gitea_current_version ) {
+    die "ERROR: Unable to get the current gitea version! Value is $gitea_current_version"
+}
 
 # Backup the current binary
 backup_bin( \%binary_file );
@@ -90,10 +101,12 @@ sub backup_bin {
   my $gitea_bin_backup = '/home/gitea/bin/gitea.' . $gitea_current_version . '.bz2';
   printf("Gitea bin backup will be $gitea_bin_backup\n");
 
-
+=devel
   my $status = bzip2 $input => $gitea_bin_backup
       or die "bzip2 failed: $Bzip2Error\n";
+    printf("!! Status of backup operation is $status\n");
   #$bz->close();
+=cut
   return;
 }
 
@@ -101,7 +114,6 @@ sub download_bin {
   my $dl_tag = shift;
   my $dl_filename='gitea-' . $dl_tag . $filetype;
   printf("Downloaded filename will be $dl_filename\n");
-  # Unzip downloaded gitea
 
 # Get the download_url from the array