diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c3db50aa..44e37a72 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 Status of the `main` branch. Changes prior to the next official version change will appear here.
 
+* Dashboard:
+  - Add version display 
+
 * Fixes:
   - Fix reactivation of the same project restarting language servers #1280
+  - Fix git commit id in version
 
 # 1.0.0
 
diff --git a/src/serena/util/git.py b/src/serena/util/git.py
index 865ae59e..ec88179f 100644
--- a/src/serena/util/git.py
+++ b/src/serena/util/git.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import logging
 
 from sensai.util.git import GitStatus
 
+from ..constants import REPO_ROOT
 from .shell import subprocess_check_output
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -9,10 +10,11 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 def get_git_status() -> GitStatus | None:
     try:
-        commit_hash = subprocess_check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"])
-        unstaged = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "diff", "--name-only"]))
-        staged = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "diff", "--staged", "--name-only"]))
-        untracked = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "ls-files", "--others", "--exclude-standard"]))
+        cwd = REPO_ROOT
+        commit_hash = subprocess_check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=cwd)
+        unstaged = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "diff", "--name-only"], cwd=cwd))
+        staged = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "diff", "--staged", "--name-only"], cwd=cwd))
+        untracked = bool(subprocess_check_output(["git", "ls-files", "--others", "--exclude-standard"], cwd=cwd))
         return GitStatus(
             commit=commit_hash, has_unstaged_changes=unstaged, has_staged_uncommitted_changes=staged, has_untracked_files=untracked
         )
diff --git a/src/serena/util/shell.py b/src/serena/util/shell.py
index ce10cdbf..a8fad3b1 100644
--- a/src/serena/util/shell.py
+++ b/src/serena/util/shell.py
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ def execute_shell_command(command: str, cwd: str | None = None, capture_stderr:
     return ShellCommandResult(stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr, return_code=process.returncode, cwd=cwd)
 
 
-def subprocess_check_output(args: list[str], encoding: str = "utf-8", strip: bool = True, timeout: float | None = None) -> str:
+def subprocess_check_output(
+    args: list[str], encoding: str = "utf-8", strip: bool = True, timeout: float | None = None, cwd: str | None = None
+) -> str:
     output = subprocess.check_output(
-        args, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=timeout, env=os.environ.copy(), **subprocess_kwargs()
+        args, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=timeout, env=os.environ.copy(), cwd=cwd, **subprocess_kwargs()
     ).decode(encoding)  # type: ignore
     if strip:
         output = output.strip()