diff --git a/nagios/check_forgejo_version.sh b/nagios/check_forgejo_version.sh
index d9d1515..dbcfd4f 100755
--- a/nagios/check_forgejo_version.sh
+++ b/nagios/check_forgejo_version.sh
@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@ case "$RELEASE_MEDIUM" in
 	'rss') UPSTREAM_VERSION="$( get_latest_version_number_from_rss "$URL_RSS_RELEASES" )" ;;
 	'dns') UPSTREAM_VERSION="$( get_latest_version_number_from_dns "$DNS_RECORD_RELEASES" )" ;;
 esac
-# note : the API seems to switch 1.21.1-0 to 1.21.1+0. We dumbly switch back ?
-LOCAL_VERSION="$( fetch_with_curl_wget_or_whatever "$URL_LOCAL_VERSION" | sed -n 's/{"version":"\([^"]\+\)"}/\1/p' | sed 's/+/-/' )"
+LOCAL_VERSION="$( fetch_with_curl_wget_or_whatever "$URL_LOCAL_VERSION" | sed -n 's/{"version":"\([^"]\+\)"}/\1/p' )"
+# note Forgejo 7 : the API returns something like '8.0.0+gitea-1.22.0' which differs from DNS and RSS sources :-/
+LOCAL_VERSION="$( echo "$LOCAL_VERSION" | sed 's/+gitea.*//' )"
+# note pre-7 versions : the API seems to switch 1.21.1-0 to 1.21.1+0. We dumbly switch back ?
+LOCAL_VERSION="$( echo "$LOCAL_VERSION" | sed 's/+/-/' )"
 
 # ...and check if they match.
 if [ "$UPSTREAM_VERSION" = "$LOCAL_VERSION" ]; then