diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 9036d83bb..0a68fae2d 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -650,11 +650,6 @@ echo "Checking if Salt was upgraded."
 echo ""
 # Check that Salt was upgraded
 SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE=$(salt --versions-report | grep Salt: | awk {'print $2'})
-if [[ "." =~ .*"$SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE".* ]]; then
-  SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE=$SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE
-else
-  SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE="${SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE}.1"
-fi
 if [[ "$SALTVERSIONPOSTUPGRADE" != "$NEWSALTVERSION" ]]; then
   echo "Salt upgrade failed. Check of indicators of failure in $SOUP_LOG."
   echo "Once the issue is resolved, run soup again."
diff --git a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
index e97115ec1..8588af65c 100644
--- a/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # When updating the salt version, also update the version in securityonion-builds/images/iso-task/Dockerfile and saltify function in so-functions
 salt:
   master:
-    version: 3003.1
\ No newline at end of file
+    version: 3003
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
index 3993c827b..9d888f106 100644
--- a/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/salt/minion.defaults.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # When updating the salt version, also update the version in securityonion-builds/images/iso-task/Dockerfile and saltify function in so-functions
 salt:
   minion:
-    version: 3003.1
+    version: 3003
     check_threshold: 3600 # in seconds, threshold used for so-salt-minion-check. any value less than 600 seconds may cause a lot of salt-minion restarts since the job to touch the file occurs every 5-8 minutes by default
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/salt/top.sls b/salt/top.sls
index 68c392c25..6b522d03b 100644
--- a/salt/top.sls
+++ b/salt/top.sls
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 {% set ISAIRGAP = salt['pillar.get']('global:airgap', 'False') %}
 {% import_yaml 'salt/minion.defaults.yaml' as saltversion %}
 {% set saltversion = saltversion.salt.minion.version %}
+{% set INSTALLEDSALTVERSION = grains.saltversion %}
 
 base:
 
diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index 8dd5d2f75..bc2908a41 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -2033,7 +2033,7 @@ saltify() {
 				fi
 				set_progress_str 7 'Installing salt-master'
 				if [[ ! $is_iso ]]; then
-				  logCmd "yum -y install salt-master-3003.1"
+				  logCmd "yum -y install salt-master-3003"
 				fi
 				systemctl enable salt-master >> "$setup_log" 2>&1
 				;;
@@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ saltify() {
 		set_progress_str 8 'Installing salt-minion & python modules'
 		{
 			if [[ ! $is_iso ]]; then
-			  yum -y install salt-minion-3003.1\
+			  yum -y install salt-minion-3003\
 			   	python3\
 					python36-docker\
 					python36-dateutil\
@@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@ saltify() {
 				set_progress_str 6 'Installing various dependencies'
 				retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install sqlite3 argon2 libssl-dev" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 				set_progress_str 7 'Installing salt-master'
-				retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install salt-master=3003.1+ds-1" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+				retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install salt-master=3003+ds-1" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 				retry 50 10 "apt-mark hold salt-master" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 				;;
 			*)
@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ saltify() {
 
 		retry 50 10 "apt-get update" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 		set_progress_str 8 'Installing salt-minion & python modules'
-		retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install salt-minion=3003.1+ds-1 salt-common=3003.1+ds-1" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+		retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install salt-minion=3003+ds-1 salt-common=3003+ds-1" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 		retry 50 10 "apt-mark hold salt-minion salt-common" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
 		if [[ $OSVER != 'xenial' ]]; then
 			retry 50 10 "apt-get -y install python3-pip python3-dateutil python3-m2crypto python3-mysqldb python3-packaging" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1