diff --git a/app/napcomp/napcomp.go b/app/napcomp/napcomp.go
index b1413f7..d1a0fa7 100644
--- a/app/napcomp/napcomp.go
+++ b/app/napcomp/napcomp.go
@@ -6,16 +6,23 @@ package main
 // in both files.
 
 import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"runtime"
 	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/nsip/nias2/napcomp"
+	"github.com/nsip/nias2/version"
 )
 
+var vers = flag.Bool("version", false, "Reports version of NIAS distribution")
+
 func main() {
 
+	flag.Parse()
+
 	// shutdown handler
 	c := make(chan os.Signal, 2)
 	signal.Notify(c, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)
@@ -25,6 +32,11 @@ func main() {
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}()
 
+	if *vers {
+		fmt.Printf("NIAS: Version %s\n", version.TagName)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
 	napcomp.IngestData()
 	napcomp.WriteReports()
 	// shut down
diff --git a/app/naprrql/naprrql.go b/app/naprrql/naprrql.go
index e43fb8c..978fbf1 100644
--- a/app/naprrql/naprrql.go
+++ b/app/naprrql/naprrql.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/nsip/nias2/naprrql"
+	"github.com/nsip/nias2/version"
 )
 
 var ingest = flag.Bool("ingest", false, "Loads data from results file. Exisitng data is overwritten.")
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ var report = flag.Bool("report", false, "Creates .csv reports. Existing reports
 // var isrprint = flag.Bool("isrprint", false, "Creates .csv files for use in isr printing")
 // var itemprint = flag.Bool("itemprint", false, "Creates .csv files reporting item results for each student against items")
 var qa = flag.Bool("qa", false, "Creates .csv files for QA checking of NAPLAN results")
+var vers = flag.Bool("version", false, "Reports version of NIAS distribution")
 
 func main() {
 
@@ -39,6 +41,11 @@ func main() {
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}()
 
+	if *vers {
+		fmt.Printf("NIAS: Version %s\n", version.TagName)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
 	// ingest results data, rebuild reports, and exit to save memory
 	if *ingest {
 		ingestData()
diff --git a/app/napval/napval.go b/app/napval/napval.go
index f7aa39e..3bc6e12 100644
--- a/app/napval/napval.go
+++ b/app/napval/napval.go
@@ -2,14 +2,25 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"github.com/nsip/nias2/lib"
 	"github.com/nsip/nias2/napval"
+	"github.com/nsip/nias2/version"
 	"log"
 	"runtime"
 )
 
+var vers = flag.Bool("version", false, "Reports version of NIAS distribution")
+
 func main() {
 
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	if *vers {
+		fmt.Printf("NIAS: Version %s\n", version.TagName)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
 	config := napval.LoadNAPLANConfig()
 	NAPLAN_NATS_CFG := lib.NATSConfig{Port: config.NATSPort}
 	log.Println("NAPVAL: Loading default config")
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index 6d516a4..8526369 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 
 cd tools; go build release.go; cd ..
+./tools/release > version/version.go
+sh build.sh
 ./tools/release nias2 nias-Mac.zip build/nias-Mac.zip
 ./tools/release nias2 nias-Win64.zip build/nias-Win64.zip
 ./tools/release nias2 nias-Win32.zip build/nias-Win32.zip
diff --git a/tools/release.go b/tools/release.go
index d06b5ec..04ff34e 100644
--- a/tools/release.go
+++ b/tools/release.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ func uploadFile(release jsonRelease, name string, filename string) jsonUpload {
 //	1 = Project name
 //	2 = File name to upload
 //	3 = Local file path
+// If called with just the project name, we generate versioning code
 func main() {
 	// Load configuration
 	if _, err := toml.DecodeFile(os.Getenv("HOME")+"/.nsip.toml", &cfg); err != nil {
@@ -147,5 +149,9 @@ func main() {
 
 	log.Printf("Received release %d as %s", release.Id, release.TagName)
 
-	uploadFile(release, os.Args[2], os.Args[3])
+	if len(os.Args) == 2 {
+		fmt.Printf("package version\nvar(\nId = %d\nTagName = \"%s\"\n)\n", release.Id, release.TagName)
+	} else {
+		uploadFile(release, os.Args[2], os.Args[3])
+	}
 }
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..687766f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package version
+var(
+Id = 10054986
+TagName = "0-9-21"
+)