diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 28ab1c8eb3..01024e5cf8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ if(CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER 3.8)
 endif()
 
 
-project(Catch2 LANGUAGES CXX VERSION 3.0.0)
+project(Catch2
+  VERSION 3.0.0 # CML version placeholder, don't delete
+  LANGUAGES CXX
+  HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2"
+  DESCRIPTION "A modern, C++-native, unit test framework."
+)
+
 
 # Provide path for scripts. We first add path to the scripts we don't use,
 # but projects including us might, and set the path up to parent scope.
diff --git a/tools/scripts/releaseCommon.py b/tools/scripts/releaseCommon.py
index b092712b6e..20ef1b0cd8 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/releaseCommon.py
+++ b/tools/scripts/releaseCommon.py
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ def updateVersionFile(self):
 def updateCmakeFile(version):
     with open(cmakePath, 'rb') as file:
         lines = file.readlines()
-    replacementRegex = re.compile(b'project\\(Catch2 LANGUAGES CXX VERSION \\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+\\)')
-    replacement = 'project(Catch2 LANGUAGES CXX VERSION {0})'.format(version.getVersionString()).encode('ascii')
+    replacementRegex = re.compile(b'''VERSION (\\d+.\\d+.\\d+) # CML version placeholder, don't delete''')
+    replacement = '''VERSION {0} # CML version placeholder, don't delete'''.format(version.getVersionString()).encode('ascii')
     with open(cmakePath, 'wb') as file:
         for line in lines:
             file.write(replacementRegex.sub(replacement, line))