diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ac9bbe3..4dd0313 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ lua-keybinder/Makefile
 python-keybinder/__init__.py
 python-keybinder/Makefile
 docs/Makefile
+docs/version.info
 ])
 
 echo
diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am
index 6387822..83e34a6 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/Makefile.am
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ HTML_IMAGES=
 
 # Extra SGML files that are included by $(DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE).
 # e.g. content_files=running.sgml building.sgml changes-2.0.sgml
-content_files=
+content_files= version.info
 
 # SGML files where gtk-doc abbrevations (#GtkWidget) are expanded
 # These files must be listed here *and* in content_files
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make
 
 # Other files to distribute
 # e.g. EXTRA_DIST += version.xml.in
-EXTRA_DIST +=
+EXTRA_DIST += version.info.in
 
 # Files not to distribute
 # for --rebuild-types in $(SCAN_OPTIONS), e.g. $(DOC_MODULE).types
diff --git a/docs/keybinder-docs.sgml b/docs/keybinder-docs.sgml
index b686d33..88bbfca 100644
--- a/docs/keybinder-docs.sgml
+++ b/docs/keybinder-docs.sgml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at
       <ulink role="online-location" url="http://[SERVER]/keybinder-3.0/index.html">http://[SERVER]/keybinder-3.0/</ulink>.
     -->
+    <xi:include parse="text" href="version.info" />
     </releaseinfo>
   </bookinfo>
 
diff --git a/docs/version.info.in b/docs/version.info.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe00944
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/version.info.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Package: @PACKAGE@ 
+Version: @VERSION@