diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 21256661..9e7f8e2e 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-* text=auto
\ No newline at end of file
+* text=auto
+version.py  export-subst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index ec344cc4..1b517e89 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-include setup.py package.json bower.json gulpfile.js README.rst MANIFEST.in LICENSE AUTHORS
+include setup.py version.py package.json bower.json gulpfile.js README.rst MANIFEST.in LICENSE AUTHORS
 recursive-include lemur/plugins/lemur_email/templates *
 recursive-include lemur/static *
 global-exclude *~
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5a308ee0..3a280a56 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #
 # All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
 # serve to show the default.
+from version import get_version
 
 import sys
 import os
@@ -55,9 +56,9 @@ copyright = u'2015, Netflix Inc.'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.1'
+version = get_version()
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.1.3'
+release = get_version()
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 1480f1b3..01ee7488 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ docutils>=0.7
 markupsafe
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
 Flask==0.10.1
-Flask-RESTful==0.3.4
+Flask-RESTful==0.3.3
 Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.1
 Flask-Script==2.0.5
 Flask-Migrate==1.6.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a17038dd..9ed80255 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 from subprocess import check_output
 
+from version import get_version
+
 ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
 
 install_requires = [
@@ -124,11 +126,11 @@ class BuildStatic(Command):
 
 setup(
     name='lemur',
-    version='0.1.5',
+    version=get_version(),
     author='Kevin Glisson',
     author_email='kglisson@netflix.com',
     url='https://github.com/netflix/lemur',
-    download_url='https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/archive/0.1.3.tar.gz',
+    download_url='https://github.com/Netflix/lemur/archive/{0}.tar.gz'.format(get_version()),
     description='Certificate management and orchestration service',
     long_description=open(os.path.join(ROOT, 'README.rst')).read(),
     packages=find_packages(),
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e02db92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Source: https://github.com/Changaco/version.py
+
+from os.path import dirname, isdir, join
+import re
+from subprocess import CalledProcessError, check_output
+
+
+PREFIX = ''
+
+tag_re = re.compile(r'\btag: %s([0-9][^,]*)\b' % PREFIX)
+version_re = re.compile('^Version: (.+)$', re.M)
+
+
+def get_version():
+    # Return the version if it has been injected into the file by git-archive
+    version = tag_re.search('$Format:%D$')
+    if version:
+        return version.group(1)
+
+    d = dirname(__file__)
+
+    if isdir(join(d, '.git')):
+        # Get the version using "git describe".
+        cmd = 'git describe --tags --match %s[0-9]* --dirty' % PREFIX
+        try:
+            version = check_output(cmd.split()).decode().strip()[len(PREFIX):]
+        except CalledProcessError:
+            raise RuntimeError('Unable to get version number from git tags')
+
+        # PEP 440 compatibility
+        if '-' in version:
+            if version.endswith('-dirty'):
+                raise RuntimeError('The working tree is dirty')
+            version = '.post'.join(version.split('-')[:2])
+
+    else:
+        # Extract the version from the PKG-INFO file.
+        with open(join(d, 'PKG-INFO')) as f:
+            version = version_re.search(f.read()).group(1)
+
+    return version
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print(get_version())