diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c84bc44..2ccabfe 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ CFLAGS+=-fwrapv # ensure that signed overflows behave as expected
 ifdef CONFIG_WERROR
 CFLAGS+=-Werror
 endif
-DEFINES:=-D_GNU_SOURCE -DCONFIG_VERSION=\"$(shell cat VERSION)\"
+DEFINES:=-D_GNU_SOURCE -DCONFIG_VERSION=\"$(shell grep JS_VERSION_STR quickjs.h | sed -e 's#.*"\(.*\)".*#\1#')\"
 ifdef CONFIG_BIGNUM
 DEFINES+=-DCONFIG_BIGNUM
 endif
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index e32e065..0000000
--- a/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2024-02-14
diff --git a/quickjs.c b/quickjs.c
index f000ff7..70a7980 100644
--- a/quickjs.c
+++ b/quickjs.c
@@ -1286,6 +1286,21 @@ static const JSClassExoticMethods js_proxy_exotic_methods;
 static const JSClassExoticMethods js_module_ns_exotic_methods;
 static JSClassID js_class_id_alloc = JS_CLASS_INIT_COUNT;
 
+const char* JS_GetVersion(void)
+{
+#define JS_STRINGIFY_(x) #x
+#define JS_STRINGIFY(x)  JS_STRINGIFY_(x)
+
+    return JS_VERSION_STR
+#ifdef JS_VERSION_SUFFIX
+           "-" JS_STRINGIFY(JS_VERSION_SUFFIX)
+#endif
+           ;
+
+#undef JS_STRINGIFY
+#undef JS_STRINGIFY_
+}
+
 static void js_trigger_gc(JSRuntime *rt, size_t size)
 {
     BOOL force_gc;
diff --git a/quickjs.h b/quickjs.h
index edc7b47..5001759 100644
--- a/quickjs.h
+++ b/quickjs.h
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+#define JS_MKVERSION(major, minor, patch) (((major) << 16) | ((minor) << 8) | (patch))
+#define JS_VERSION JS_MKVERSION(0, 5, 0)
+#define JS_VERSION_STR "0.5.0"
+#define JS_VERSION_MAJOR(v) (((v) >> 16))
+#define JS_VERSION_MINOR(v) (((v) >> 8) & 0xff)
+#define JS_VERSION_PATCH(v) ((v) & 0xff)
+
+const char *JS_GetVersion(void);
+
 #if defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__clang__)
 #define js_likely(x)          __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
 #define js_unlikely(x)        __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)