diff --git a/packages/sync/integration_test/test/offline.test.js b/packages/sync/integration_test/test/offline.test.js
index de307396..192351a0 100644
--- a/packages/sync/integration_test/test/offline.test.js
+++ b/packages/sync/integration_test/test/offline.test.js
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ describe('AeroGear Apollo GraphQL Voyager client', function () {
 
   const newTask = {
     description: 'new',
-    title: 'new'
+    title: 'new',
+    version: 1
   };
 
   const updatedTask = {
diff --git a/packages/sync/src/cache/createOptimisticResponse.ts b/packages/sync/src/cache/createOptimisticResponse.ts
index c72b20a7..fd8adb8e 100644
--- a/packages/sync/src/cache/createOptimisticResponse.ts
+++ b/packages/sync/src/cache/createOptimisticResponse.ts
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ export const createOptimisticResponse =
     optimisticResponse[operation] = {
       __typename: typeName,
       ...data,
-      version: 1,
       optimisticResponse: true
     };
     if (addId) {