diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5bc12be..9babfbc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
-version = 3
+version = 4
 
 [[package]]
 name = "addr2line"
@@ -1716,6 +1716,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "path-clean",
  "pathdiff",
+ "semver 1.0.23",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
diff --git a/crates/lune-utils/Cargo.toml b/crates/lune-utils/Cargo.toml
index 09459dd..138f680 100644
--- a/crates/lune-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/lune-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ dunce = "1.0"
 once_cell = "1.17"
 path-clean = "1.0"
 pathdiff = "0.2"
+semver = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/lune-utils/src/version_string.rs b/crates/lune-utils/src/version_string.rs
index 6c4bbcf..29f1d87 100644
--- a/crates/lune-utils/src/version_string.rs
+++ b/crates/lune-utils/src/version_string.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use mlua::prelude::*;
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use semver::Version;
 
 static LUAU_VERSION: Lazy<Arc<String>> = Lazy::new(create_luau_version_string);
 
@@ -20,12 +21,10 @@ pub fn get_version_string(lune_version: impl AsRef<str>) -> String {
     let lune_version = lune_version.as_ref();
 
     assert!(!lune_version.is_empty(), "Lune version string is empty");
-    assert!(
-        lune_version.chars().all(is_valid_version_char),
-        "Lune version string contains invalid characters"
-    );
-
-    format!("Lune {lune_version}+{}", *LUAU_VERSION)
+    match Version::parse(lune_version) {
+        Ok(semver) => format!("Lune {semver}+{}", *LUAU_VERSION),
+        Err(e) => panic!("Lune version string is not valid semver: {e}"),
+    }
 }
 
 fn create_luau_version_string() -> Arc<String> {