diff --git a/core/configuration/motd b/core/configuration/motd
index 35451aed83..16b643b84d 100644
--- a/core/configuration/motd
+++ b/core/configuration/motd
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 
-Welcome to BlueOS 1.1!
+Welcome to BlueOS!
+
+Version: ${GIT_DESCRIBE_TAGS}
 
 What you currently see is a tmux session built into BlueOS's docker container.
 This means you are not in the host Raspbian OS itself, and most of the data in here is