diff --git a/src/semver/SemverQuery.rs b/src/semver/SemverQuery.rs
index d1eefe83f801..7731d493aa1f 100644
--- a/src/semver/SemverQuery.rs
+++ b/src/semver/SemverQuery.rs
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ impl List {
             range: *range,
             next: None,
         });
-        tail.range = *range;
 
         let tail_ptr = NonNull::from(&mut *tail);
 
@@ -988,7 +987,7 @@ pub fn parse(input: &[u8], sliced: SlicedString) -> Result<Group, AllocError> {
                         break 'possibly_hyphenate false;
                     }
 
-                    if !(i < input.len() && matches!(input[i], b'0'..=b'9' | b'X' | b'x' | b'*')) {
+                    if !matches!(input[i], b'0'..=b'9' | b'X' | b'x' | b'*') {
                         break 'possibly_hyphenate false;
                     }
 
diff --git a/src/semver/Version.rs b/src/semver/Version.rs
index 4ab302f02375..e9f824ff249a 100644
--- a/src/semver/Version.rs
+++ b/src/semver/Version.rs
@@ -579,9 +579,6 @@ impl<T: VersionInt> VersionType<T> {
                     }
 
                     part_start_i = i;
-                    while i < input.len() && matches!(input[i], b' ') {
-                        i += 1;
-                    }
                     let tag_result = Tag::parse(sliced_string.sub(&input[part_start_i..]));
                     result.version.tag = tag_result.tag;
                     i += tag_result.len as usize;