diff --git a/ct/romm.sh b/ct/romm.sh
index 0bde57acb..f3939b118 100644
--- a/ct/romm.sh
+++ b/ct/romm.sh
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ function update_script() {
       /opt/romm/frontend/dist/assets/ruffle
 
     CLEAN_INSTALL=1 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "romm" "rommapp/romm" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/romm"
+    echo "__version__ = \"$(cat ~/.romm)\"" >/opt/romm/backend/__version__.py
 
     find /opt/romm/backend/alembic/versions -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '1.*.py' -delete 2>/dev/null || true
     find /opt/romm/backend/alembic/versions -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '2.0.0_.py' -delete 2>/dev/null || true
diff --git a/install/romm-install.sh b/install/romm-install.sh
index 67eb5f308..8b267251c 100644
--- a/install/romm-install.sh
+++ b/install/romm-install.sh
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "romm" "rommapp/romm" "tarball"
+echo "__version__ = \"$(cat ~/.romm)\"" >/opt/romm/backend/__version__.py
 
 msg_info "Creating environment file"
 sed -i 's/^supervised no/supervised systemd/' /etc/redis/redis.conf