diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bbdfe39..edf96a2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,41 +89,6 @@
           </programs>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-            <groupId>com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin</groupId>
-            <artifactId>replacer</artifactId>
-            <version>1.5.3</version>
-            <executions>
-                <execution>
-                    <id>replace-version-number</id>
-                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>
-                    <goals>
-                        <goal>replace</goal>
-                    </goals>
-                </execution>
-            </executions>
-            <configuration>
-                <basedir>${project.basedir}/src/main/java</basedir>
-                <includes>
-                    <include>**/CliVersionInfo.java</include>
-                </includes>
-                <preserveDir>true</preserveDir>
-                <replacements>
-                    <replacement>
-                        <token>MAVEN_PROJECT_NAME = ".*"</token>
-                        <value>MAVEN_PROJECT_NAME = "${project.name}"</value>
-                    </replacement>
-                    <replacement>
-                        <token>MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION = ".*"</token>
-                        <value>MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION = "${project.version}"</value>
-                    </replacement>
-                    <replacement>
-                        <token>BUILD_NO = ".*"</token>
-                        <value>BUILD_NO = "${travisBuildNumber}"</value>
-                    </replacement>
-                </replacements>
-            </configuration>
-        </plugin>
         <plugin>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -162,6 +127,22 @@
             </dependencies>
         </plugin>
     </plugins>
+      <resources>
+          <resource>
+              <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+              <filtering>true</filtering>
+              <includes>
+                  <include>**/utplsql-cli.version</include>
+              </includes>
+          </resource>
+          <resource>
+              <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+              <filtering>false</filtering>
+              <excludes>
+                  <exclude>**/utplsql-cli.version</exclude>
+              </excludes>
+          </resource>
+      </resources>
   </build>
 
   <repositories>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfo.java b/src/main/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfo.java
index 96fbc4c..c7ab283 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfo.java
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 package org.utplsql.cli;
 
+import org.utplsql.api.JavaApiVersionInfo;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+
 /** This class is getting updated automatically by the build process.
  * Please do not update its constants manually cause they will be overwritten.
  *
@@ -7,14 +15,25 @@
  */
 public class CliVersionInfo {
 
-    private static final String BUILD_NO = "local";
-    private static final String MAVEN_PROJECT_NAME = "cli";
-    private static final String MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION = "3.1.1-SNAPSHOT";
+    private static final String MAVEN_PROJECT_NAME = "utPLSL-cli";
+    private static String MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION = "unknown";
 
-    public static String getVersion() {
-        return MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION + "." + BUILD_NO;
+    static {
+        try {
+            try ( InputStream in = JavaApiVersionInfo.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("utplsql-cli.version")) {
+                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
+                MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION = reader.readLine();
+
+                reader.close();
+            }
+        }
+        catch ( IOException e ) {
+            System.out.println("WARNING: Could not get Version information!");
+        }
     }
 
+    public static String getVersion() { return MAVEN_PROJECT_VERSION; }
     public static String getInfo() { return MAVEN_PROJECT_NAME + " " + getVersion(); }
 
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/utplsql-cli.version b/src/main/resources/utplsql-cli.version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fb16e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/utplsql-cli.version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+${project.version}.${travisBuildNumber}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfoTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc1957b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/utplsql/cli/CliVersionInfoTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package org.utplsql.cli;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.utplsql.api.JavaApiVersionInfo;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+public class CliVersionInfoTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void getCliVersionInfo() {
+        assertTrue(CliVersionInfo.getVersion().startsWith("3.1"));
+    }
+}