diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f64a22f1..6f3722fb 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ built-docs: docs/api/phpdoc.ini htdocs/*.php inc/*.php
 	phpdoc -c docs/api/phpdoc.ini
 	touch built-docs
 
+inc/always.php: VERSION inc/always.php.in
+	sed -e "/^ *.c->version_string *= *'[^']*' *;/ s/^ *.c->version_string *= *'[^']*' *;/\$$c->version_string = '`head -n1 VERSION`';/" <inc/always.php.in >inc/always.php
+	# mv inc/always.php.new inc/always.php
+
 clean:
 	rm -f built-docs
 	-find docs/api/* ! -name "phpdoc.ini" ! -name ".gitignore" -delete
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d29cb6e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.8.0~rc2
diff --git a/inc/always.php b/inc/always.php.in
similarity index 98%
rename from inc/always.php
rename to inc/always.php.in
index 3db051ed..dca88913 100644
--- a/inc/always.php
+++ b/inc/always.php.in
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ awl_set_locale($c->default_locale);
 *
 */
 $c->code_version = 0;
-$c->version_string = '0.8.0~rc2'; // The actual version # is replaced into that during the build /release process
+$c->version_string = '0.7.0~rc3'; // The actual version # is replaced into that during the build /release process
 if ( isset($c->version_string) && preg_match( '/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)(.*)/', $c->version_string, $matches) ) {
   $c->code_major = $matches[1];
   $c->code_minor = $matches[1];