diff --git a/cmd/tailscale/depaware.txt b/cmd/tailscale/depaware.txt
index 8a242fa45d4ce..f7501ebbf8e5a 100644
--- a/cmd/tailscale/depaware.txt
+++ b/cmd/tailscale/depaware.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/dep
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket                                          from tailscale.com/derp/derphttp+
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket/internal/errd                            from nhooyr.io/websocket
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket/internal/xsync                           from nhooyr.io/websocket
+        tailscale.com                                                from tailscale.com/version
         tailscale.com/atomicfile                                     from tailscale.com/ipn+
         tailscale.com/client/tailscale                               from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli+
         tailscale.com/client/tailscale/apitype                       from tailscale.com/client/tailscale+
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/dep
         crypto/tls                                                   from github.com/tcnksm/go-httpstat+
         crypto/x509                                                  from crypto/tls+
         crypto/x509/pkix                                             from crypto/x509+
-        embed                                                        from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli
+        embed                                                        from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale/cli+
         encoding                                                     from encoding/json+
         encoding/asn1                                                from crypto/x509+
         encoding/base64                                              from encoding/json+
diff --git a/cmd/tailscaled/depaware.txt b/cmd/tailscaled/depaware.txt
index 6f97c948c243b..9c76077840871 100644
--- a/cmd/tailscaled/depaware.txt
+++ b/cmd/tailscaled/depaware.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/de
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket                                          from tailscale.com/derp/derphttp+
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket/internal/errd                            from nhooyr.io/websocket
    L    nhooyr.io/websocket/internal/xsync                           from nhooyr.io/websocket
+        tailscale.com                                                from tailscale.com/version
         tailscale.com/atomicfile                                     from tailscale.com/ipn+
   LD    tailscale.com/chirp                                          from tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
         tailscale.com/client/tailscale                               from tailscale.com/derp
diff --git a/version-embed.go b/version-embed.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a4b12982cc51c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version-embed.go
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2021 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package tailscaleroot embeds VERSION.txt into the binary.
+package tailscaleroot
+
+import _ "embed"
+
+//go:embed VERSION.txt
+var Version string
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index ab4cadb22d2e7..4866b64bd756e 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -5,10 +5,20 @@
 // Package version provides the version that the binary was built at.
 package version
 
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	tailscaleroot "tailscale.com"
+)
+
 // Long is a full version number for this build, of the form
 // "x.y.z-commithash", or "date.yyyymmdd" if no actual version was
 // provided.
-var Long = "date.20211004"
+var Long = "date.20211022"
+
+func init() {
+	Long = strings.TrimSpace(tailscaleroot.Version) + "-" + Long
+}
 
 // Short is a short version number for this build, of the form
 // "x.y.z", or "date.yyyymmdd" if no actual version was provided.