diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 228c6dfd02915870aebdf6db816e4777687a4774..d70f991789e614035158fc3406fcebdd2d66c7d4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT(acinclude.m4)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 dnl figure out the sflphone version
-VERSION=`sed -ne 's/^#define SFLPHONE_VERSION "\(.*\)"/\1/p' ${srcdir}/sflphone.h`
+VERSION=`sed -ne 's/^#define SFLPHONE_VERSION "\(.*\)"/\1/p' ${srcdir}/src/global.h`
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ AC_SUBST(RPM_VERSION)
 LIBS="$LIBS -lstdc++"
 dnl
 dnl we extract the numerical version 
-VERSIONNUM=`sed -ne 's/^#define SFLPHONE_VERSION_NUM 0x\(\\d\)/\1/p' ${srcdir}/sflphone.h`
+VERSIONNUM=`sed -ne 's/^#define SFLPHONE_VERSION_NUM 0x\(\\d\)/\1/p' ${srcdir}/src/global.h`
 AC_SUBST(VERSIONNUM)
 
 dnl
diff --git a/src/global.h b/src/global.h
index fa865d5fa956e2e1191a3263843e50e36e5a2a2b..b9fe487775e2b649f32626e2e2ec82e504e3bf69 100644
--- a/src/global.h
+++ b/src/global.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ typedef short int16;
 	#define _debug(...)
 #endif
 
+#define SFLPHONE_VERSION "0.3.0"
+#define SFLPHONE_VERSION_NUM 0x000300
+
 #define PROGNAME				"sflphone"
 #define SKINDIR					"skins"
 #define PIXDIR					"pixmaps"