diff --git a/ci/travis/conda/setup.sh b/ci/travis/conda/setup.sh
index 8d9d7217fc43..260ad4610686 100755
--- a/ci/travis/conda/setup.sh
+++ b/ci/travis/conda/setup.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ cd gdal-feedstock
 patch -p1 < ../ci/travis/conda/libgdal-adbc.patch
 patch -p1 < ../ci/travis/conda/muparser.patch
 
+# Patch version = "X.Y.Z" to "X.Y.99"
+sed -i -E 's/set version = "([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)"/set version = "\1.\2.99"/' recipe/meta.yaml
+
 cat > recipe/recipe_clobber.yaml <<EOL
 source:
   path: ../../../gdal