diff --git a/fairmq/plugins/Control.h b/fairmq/plugins/Control.h
index 15ede137c..027fa263e 100644
--- a/fairmq/plugins/Control.h
+++ b/fairmq/plugins/Control.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #define FAIR_MQ_PLUGINS_CONTROL
 
 #include <fairmq/Plugin.h>
+#include <fairmq/Version.h>
 
 #include <condition_variable>
 #include <mutex>
@@ -57,13 +58,16 @@ class Control : public Plugin
 auto ControlPluginProgramOptions() -> Plugin::ProgOptions;
 
 REGISTER_FAIRMQ_PLUGIN(
-    Control,                                     // Class name
-    control,                                     // Plugin name (string, lower case chars only)
-    (Plugin::Version{1,0,1}),                    // Version
-    "FairRootGroup <fairroot@gsi.de>",           // Maintainer
-    "https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairRoot", // Homepage
-    ControlPluginProgramOptions                  // Free function which declares custom program options for the plugin
-                                                 // signature: () -> boost::optional<boost::program_options::options_description>
+    Control,   // Class name
+    control,   // Plugin name (string, lower case chars only)
+    (Plugin::Version{FAIRMQ_VERSION_MAJOR,
+                     FAIRMQ_VERSION_MINOR,
+                     FAIRMQ_VERSION_PATCH}),       // Version
+    "FairRootGroup <fairroot@gsi.de>",             // Maintainer
+    "https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairRoot",   // Homepage
+    ControlPluginProgramOptions   // Free function which declares custom program options for the
+                                  // plugin signature: () ->
+                                  // boost::optional<boost::program_options::options_description>
 )
 
 } /* namespace plugins */