diff --git a/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/DependencyAnalysis/ManagedDataDescriptorNode.cs b/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/DependencyAnalysis/ManagedDataDescriptorNode.cs
index 696810e9629cc7..c8930fa8c6d339 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/DependencyAnalysis/ManagedDataDescriptorNode.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/tools/aot/ILCompiler.Compiler/Compiler/DependencyAnalysis/ManagedDataDescriptorNode.cs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ private static byte[] BuildJsonDescriptor(NodeFactory factory)
             using (var writer = new Utf8JsonWriter(stream))
             {
                 writer.WriteStartObject();
-                writer.WriteNumber("version", 0);
+                writer.WriteNumber("version", 2);
                 writer.WriteString("baseline", "empty");
 
                 writer.WriteStartObject("types");