diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
 
-project(KDialog)
+# KDE Application Version, managed by release script
+set(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MAJOR "19")
+set(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MINOR "07")
+set(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MICRO "70")
+set(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION "${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MAJOR}.${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MINOR}.${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MICRO}")
+
+project(KDialog VERSION ${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION})
 
 # ECM setup
 find_package(ECM 1.7.0 CONFIG REQUIRED)
@@ -10,6 +16,7 @@
 include(KDEInstallDirs)
 include(KDECMakeSettings)
 include(KDEFrameworkCompilerSettings NO_POLICY_SCOPE)
+include(ECMSetupVersion)
 
 # Build dependencies
 find_package(KF5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS TextWidgets Notifications GuiAddons IconThemes WindowSystem KIO DBusAddons)
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+ecm_setup_version(${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION} VARIABLE_PREFIX KDIALOG VERSION_HEADER kdialog_version.h)
+
 configure_file(config-kdialog.h.cmake ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/config-kdialog.h)
 
 set(kdialog_SRCS
diff --git a/src/kdialog.cpp b/src/kdialog.cpp
--- a/src/kdialog.cpp
+++ b/src/kdialog.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "config-kdialog.h"
 #include "widgets.h"
 #include "utils.h"
+#include "kdialog_version.h"
 
 // KF
 #include <KMessageBox>
@@ -261,7 +262,7 @@
     app.setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps, true);
 
     KAboutData aboutData( QStringLiteral("kdialog"), i18n("KDialog"),
-            QStringLiteral("2.0"), i18n( "KDialog can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts" ),
+            QStringLiteral(KDIALOG_VERSION_STRING), i18n( "KDialog can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts" ),
             KAboutLicense::GPL,
             i18n("(C) 2000, Nick Thompson"));
     aboutData.addAuthor(i18n("David Faure"), i18n("Current maintainer"),QStringLiteral("faure@kde.org"));