diff --git a/SparkleLib/AssemblyInfo.cs.in b/SparkleLib/AssemblyInfo.cs.in
index bd5ac1af..11ce20de 100644
--- a/SparkleLib/AssemblyInfo.cs.in
+++ b/SparkleLib/AssemblyInfo.cs.in
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
 
-[assembly: AssemblyVersion("@VERSION@")]
+[assembly: AssemblyVersion("@ASM_VERSION@")]
 [assembly: AssemblyTitle ("SparkleShare")]
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5601fa7f..26d593d9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
-dnl Warning: This is an automatically generated file, do not edit!
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
+m4_define([sparkleshare_version],
+	[0.2-alpha1])
+
+m4_define([sparkleshare_asm_version],
+	[0.2])
+
 AC_PREREQ([2.54])
-AC_INIT([SparkleShare], [0.1])
+AC_INIT([SparkleShare], sparkleshare_version)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-bzip2 dist-zip foreign])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
+dnl Export Version Info
+AC_SUBST([ASM_VERSION], [sparkleshare_asm_version])
+
 dnl pkg-config
 AC_PATH_PROG(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config, no)
 if test "x$PKG_CONFIG" = "xno"; then