diff --git a/.changeset/grumpy-shrimps-hunt.md b/.changeset/grumpy-shrimps-hunt.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9354621a020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/grumpy-shrimps-hunt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/constants": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+Change lockfile version back to 6.0 as previous versions of pnpm fail to parse the version correctly.
diff --git a/lockfile/lockfile-file/src/read.ts b/lockfile/lockfile-file/src/read.ts
index 7ae7adfce45..5c7bde19874 100644
--- a/lockfile/lockfile-file/src/read.ts
+++ b/lockfile/lockfile-file/src/read.ts
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ async function _read (
       opts.wantedVersions.length === 0 ||
       opts.wantedVersions.some((wantedVersion) => {
         if (semver.major(lockfileSemver) !== semver.major(comverToSemver(wantedVersion))) return false
-        if (semver.gt(lockfileSemver, comverToSemver(wantedVersion))) {
+        if (lockfile.lockfileVersion !== '6.1' && semver.gt(lockfileSemver, comverToSemver(wantedVersion))) {
           logger.warn({
             message: `Your ${WANTED_LOCKFILE} was generated by a newer version of pnpm. ` +
               `It is a compatible version but it might get downgraded to version ${wantedVersion}`,
diff --git a/packages/constants/src/index.ts b/packages/constants/src/index.ts
index 7cb3ee03ee0..d0abf24177f 100644
--- a/packages/constants/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/constants/src/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 export const WANTED_LOCKFILE = 'pnpm-lock.yaml'
 export const LOCKFILE_VERSION = 5.4
-export const LOCKFILE_VERSION_V6 = '6.1'
+export const LOCKFILE_VERSION_V6 = '6.0'
 
 export const ENGINE_NAME = `${process.platform}-${process.arch}-node-${process.version.split('.')[0]}`
 export const LAYOUT_VERSION = 5
diff --git a/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts b/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
index 9e296f5675b..c56c8bd84fc 100644
--- a/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
+++ b/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ export async function mutateModules (
         ctx.existsWantedLockfile &&
         (
           ctx.wantedLockfile.lockfileVersion === LOCKFILE_VERSION ||
-          ctx.wantedLockfile.lockfileVersion === LOCKFILE_VERSION_V6
+          ctx.wantedLockfile.lockfileVersion === LOCKFILE_VERSION_V6 ||
+          ctx.wantedLockfile.lockfileVersion === '6.1'
         ) &&
         await allProjectsAreUpToDate(Object.values(ctx.projects), {
           autoInstallPeers: opts.autoInstallPeers,