diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index 385b482d..05bdee19 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ if(TARGET Arrow::arrow_shared)
 elseif(TARGET Arrow::arrow_static)
     set(PAIMON_EXAMPLE_ARROW_TARGET Arrow::arrow_static)
 else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Neither Arrow::arrow_shared nor Arrow::arrow_static is available")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Neither Arrow::arrow_shared nor Arrow::arrow_static is available"
+    )
 endif()
 
 add_executable(read_write_demo read_write_demo.cpp)
diff --git a/scripts/releasing/create_source_release.sh b/scripts/releasing/create_source_release.sh
index fb0345a7..f65ae2b2 100755
--- a/scripts/releasing/create_source_release.sh
+++ b/scripts/releasing/create_source_release.sh
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ done
 
 CMAKE_VERSION=$(
     git -C "${SOURCE_ROOT}" show "${GIT_REF}:CMakeLists.txt" |
-        sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*VERSION[[:space:]]\+\([0-9][0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p' |
-        head -n 1
+        awk '$1 == "VERSION" && $2 ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/ { print $2; exit }'
 )
 [[ "${CMAKE_VERSION}" == "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]] ||
     fail "CMake version ${CMAKE_VERSION:-<missing>} does not match ${RELEASE_VERSION}"
diff --git a/scripts/releasing/verify_release_candidate.sh b/scripts/releasing/verify_release_candidate.sh
index cf6660d6..47274cfd 100755
--- a/scripts/releasing/verify_release_candidate.sh
+++ b/scripts/releasing/verify_release_candidate.sh
@@ -167,9 +167,8 @@ for required_file in LICENSE NOTICE CMakeLists.txt docs/source/conf.py; do
 done
 
 CMAKE_VERSION=$(
-    sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*VERSION[[:space:]]\+\([0-9][0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p' \
-        "${SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt" |
-        head -n 1
+    awk '$1 == "VERSION" && $2 ~ /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/ { print $2; exit }' \
+        "${SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt"
 )
 [[ "${CMAKE_VERSION}" == "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]] ||
     fail "CMake version ${CMAKE_VERSION:-<missing>} does not match ${RELEASE_VERSION}"