diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6646a645..3a6ba05e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file
 automatically by Versionist. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY!
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## v4.3.0 - 2017-06-05
+
+* Switch to generating the BASE_IMAGE_VERSION in the makefile, so that the makefile targets can use an accurate version by default [Pagan Gazzard]
+
 ## v4.2.4 - 2017-05-12
 
 * Fix typo in how hostOSVersionPath was camel-cased [Pablo Carranza Velez]
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ddd60913..ba340a0e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ ARCH = rpi# rpi/amd64/i386/armv7hf/armel
 DEPLOY_REGISTRY =
 
 SUPERVISOR_VERSION = master
-ESCAPED_BASE_IMAGE_TAG = resin\/$(ARCH)-supervisor-base:$(SUPERVISOR_VERSION)
+BASE_IMAGE_VERSION = $(shell find base-image -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z | tar --null -cf - --no-recursion --mtime=@0 --owner=root --group=root --numeric-owner -T - | md5sum | awk -F " " '{print $$1}')
+ESCAPED_BASE_IMAGE_TAG = resin\/$(ARCH)-supervisor-base:$(BASE_IMAGE_VERSION)
 
 DOCKER_VERSION:=$(shell docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}')
 DOCKER_MAJOR_VERSION:=$(word 1, $(subst ., ,$(DOCKER_VERSION)))
@@ -226,4 +227,7 @@ test-integration: gosuper
 		resin/go-supervisor-$(ARCH):$(SUPERVISOR_VERSION) \
 			go test -v ./supertest
 
+base-image-version:
+	@echo $(BASE_IMAGE_VERSION)
+
 .PHONY: supervisor deploy supervisor-dind run-supervisor gosuper nodesuper
diff --git a/automation/jenkins_build.sh b/automation/jenkins_build.sh
index a6904030..3129456f 100755
--- a/automation/jenkins_build.sh
+++ b/automation/jenkins_build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export ESCAPED_BRANCH_NAME=$(echo $sourceBranch | sed 's/[^a-z0-9A-Z_.-]/-/g')
 git submodule update --init --recursive
 git clean -fxd base-image
 git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -fxd
-BASE_IMAGE_VERSION=$(find base-image -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z | tar --null -cf - --no-recursion --mtime=@0 --owner=root --group=root --numeric-owner -T - | md5sum | awk -F " " '{print $1}')
+BASE_IMAGE_VERSION=$(make base-image-version)
 export BASE_IMAGE_REPO=resin/$ARCH-supervisor-base
 export BASE_IMAGE_TAG=resin/$ARCH-supervisor-base:$BASE_IMAGE_VERSION
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c1373d27..2dfaee9e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "resin-supervisor",
   "description": "This is resin.io's Supervisor, a program that runs on IoT devices and has the task of running user Apps (which are Docker containers), and updating them as Resin's API informs it to.",
-  "version": "4.2.4",
+  "version": "4.3.0",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",