diff --git a/bin/brozzle-page b/bin/brozzle-page
index f90ab97..4817dd7 100755
--- a/bin/brozzle-page
+++ b/bin/brozzle-page
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ arg_parser.add_argument('--enable-warcprox-features', dest='enable_warcprox_feat
 arg_parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", dest="log_level",
         action="store_const", default=logging.INFO, const=logging.DEBUG)
 arg_parser.add_argument("--version", action="version",
-        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.version, os.path.basename(__file__)))
+        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.__version__, os.path.basename(__file__)))
 args = arg_parser.parse_args(args=sys.argv[1:])
 
 logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=args.log_level,
diff --git a/bin/brozzler-new-job b/bin/brozzler-new-job
index 31ff5fd..313f17e 100755
--- a/bin/brozzler-new-job
+++ b/bin/brozzler-new-job
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ arg_parser.add_argument('--rethinkdb-db', dest='rethinkdb_db', default="brozzler
 arg_parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", dest="log_level",
         action="store_const", default=logging.INFO, const=logging.DEBUG)
 arg_parser.add_argument("--version", action="version",
-        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.version, os.path.basename(__file__)))
+        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.__version__, os.path.basename(__file__)))
 args = arg_parser.parse_args(args=sys.argv[1:])
 
 logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=args.log_level,
diff --git a/bin/brozzler-new-site b/bin/brozzler-new-site
index 541d17c..199688b 100755
--- a/bin/brozzler-new-site
+++ b/bin/brozzler-new-site
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ arg_parser.add_argument('--enable-warcprox-features', dest='enable_warcprox_feat
 arg_parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", dest="log_level",
         action="store_const", default=logging.INFO, const=logging.DEBUG)
 arg_parser.add_argument("--version", action="version",
-        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.version, os.path.basename(__file__)))
+        version="brozzler {} - {}".format(brozzler.__version__, os.path.basename(__file__)))
 args = arg_parser.parse_args(args=sys.argv[1:])
 
 logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=args.log_level,
diff --git a/brozzler/__init__.py b/brozzler/__init__.py
index f87a0f7..78d904b 100644
--- a/brozzler/__init__.py
+++ b/brozzler/__init__.py
@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 import json as _json
 import logging as _logging
 
-def _read_version():
-    import os
-    version_txt = os.path.sep.join(__file__.split(os.path.sep)[:-1] + ['version.txt'])
-    with open(version_txt, 'rb') as fin:
-        version_bytes = fin.read()
-        return version_bytes.strip().decode('utf-8')
-
-version = _read_version()
-
 class ShutdownRequested(Exception):
     pass
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 03737f6..d159128 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,23 +1,8 @@
 import setuptools
 import glob
 
-VERSION_BYTES = b'1.0'
-
-def full_version_bytes():
-    import subprocess, time
-    try:
-        commit_num_bytes = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-list', '--count', 'HEAD'])
-        return VERSION_BYTES + b'.' + commit_num_bytes.strip()
-    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-        return VERSION_BYTES
-
-version_bytes = full_version_bytes()
-with open('brozzler/version.txt', 'wb') as out:
-    out.write(version_bytes)
-    out.write(b'\n');
-
 setuptools.setup(name='brozzler',
-        version=version_bytes.decode('utf-8'),
+        version='1.0.1',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/nlevitt/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
@@ -25,7 +10,7 @@ setuptools.setup(name='brozzler',
         long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
         license='Apache License 2.0',
         packages=['brozzler'],
-        package_data={'brozzler': ['behaviors.d/*.js*', 'behaviors.yaml', 'version.txt']},
+        package_data={'brozzler': ['behaviors.d/*.js*', 'behaviors.yaml']},
         scripts=glob.glob('bin/*'),
         install_requires=[
             'PyYAML',