diff --git a/QTM b/QTM
index 4c6a76ab..2dd50fe1 100755
--- a/QTM
+++ b/QTM
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-java -Xmx512m -jar target/QTM-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar $*
+java -Xmx512m -jar target/QTM-1.0.jar $*
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e30451be..bac1a282 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>com.wur</groupId>
 	<artifactId>QTM</artifactId>
-	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.0</version>
 	<build>
 		<plugins>
 			<plugin>
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@
 			<version>1.4_rc3</version>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+			<artifactId>maven-model</artifactId>
+			<version>3.3.9</version>
+	    </dependency>
+
 		<dependency>
 		<groupId>org.xerial</groupId>
 		<artifactId>sqlite-jdbc</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/qtm/QtmMain.java b/src/main/java/qtm/QtmMain.java
index 994e65f3..6eeb75d7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/qtm/QtmMain.java
+++ b/src/main/java/qtm/QtmMain.java
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
-
+import org.apache.maven.model.Model;
+import org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
-
 import readers.PmcMetaReader;
 import resultDb.QtlDb;
 import utils.Configs;
@@ -39,7 +39,14 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
 
 		if (Arrays.asList(args).contains("-v")
 				| Arrays.asList(args).contains("--version")) {
-			System.out.println("1.0 ");
+      try{
+			MavenXpp3Reader reader = new MavenXpp3Reader();
+		  Model model = reader.read(new FileReader("pom.xml"));
+			System.out.println(model.getVersion());
+		 }
+		catch(Exception e){
+        e.printStackTrace();
+		}
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -52,10 +59,10 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
 						+ ".db";
 			}
 		}
-		
+
 		// (re)start Solr server
 		controlSolr("restart");
-		
+
 		String inputFile = args[0];
 		ArrayList<String> pmcIds = new ArrayList<String>();
 		BufferedReader reader = null;
@@ -196,7 +203,7 @@ public static long bytesToMegabytes(long bytes) {
 
 	public static void controlSolr(String cmd) {
 		System.out.println("Solr server has been " + cmd + "ed.");
-		System.out.println("--------------------------------------------");		
+		System.out.println("--------------------------------------------");
 		try {
 			String[] cmdline = {Configs.getPropertyQTM("solrRun"), cmd,
 												  Configs.getPropertyQTM("solrPort"),
@@ -209,7 +216,7 @@ public static void controlSolr(String cmd) {
 		}
 		System.out.println("\n");
 	}
-	
+
 	public static void printHelp() {
 		System.out.println("\nDESCRIPTION");
 		System.out.println("===========");