diff --git a/README b/README
index ec5518c0e..52a597930 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ CREDITS
 COPYING
 	GNU General Public License
 
-ChangeLog
-	An incomplete list of changes to the project.  We will try harder to
-	keep this up to date.
+VERSION
+	LTP Version.
 
 Makefile
 	Top level make file for LTP.
diff --git a/include/mk/automake.mk b/include/mk/automake.mk
index e5a4fe047..9893cf6e0 100644
--- a/include/mk/automake.mk
+++ b/include/mk/automake.mk
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ autoheader: configure.ac $(wildcard m4/*.m4) m4/ltp-version.m4 aclocal.m4
 include:
 	mkdir -p "$@"
 
-m4/ltp-version.m4: ChangeLog
+m4/ltp-version.m4: VERSION
 	sed -n '1{s:LTP-:m4_define([LTP_VERSION],[:;s:$$:]):;p;q}' $< > $@
 
 .PHONY: automake
diff --git a/tools/autoltp b/tools/autoltp
index f8c3b1045..aece65907 100755
--- a/tools/autoltp
+++ b/tools/autoltp
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ for($i=0; $i <= $#hosts; $i++) {
       }
 
       #this looks lame, but ltp_check needs ltprun.out to grab the ltp version      
-      $ssh->cmd('echo version: $(head -n1 ltp/ChangeLog) > ltprun.out');
+      $ssh->cmd('echo version: $(cat VERSION) > ltprun.out');
 
       #stop sar on client(s)
       if($ssh->cmd("killall sar && killall sadc")) {
diff --git a/tools/ltprun b/tools/ltprun
index 95fb5bdad..5fae63dbd 100755
--- a/tools/ltprun
+++ b/tools/ltprun
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ untar_ltp()
 build_ltp()
 {
    cd ~/ltp
-   echo "Building LTP Testsuite version: `head -n1 ChangeLog`";
+   echo "Building LTP Testsuite version: `cat VERSION`";
    make clean install &> /dev/null
    if [ $? != "0" ]; then
       echo "FAILED   LTP Testsuite compilation"; return 0;