diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 94ae2fdbd..b773d458c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ coverage.html
 /*.bat
 /filestorage
 app/V1Module/presenters/_autogenerated_annotations_temp.php
+/app/.version
diff --git a/app/helpers/Config/ApiConfig.php b/app/helpers/Config/ApiConfig.php
index 5dff1ea00..11f9039eb 100644
--- a/app/helpers/Config/ApiConfig.php
+++ b/app/helpers/Config/ApiConfig.php
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 namespace App\Helpers;
 
-use limenet\GitVersion\Directory;
-use limenet\GitVersion\Formatters\CustomFormatter;
 use Nette;
 use Nette\Utils\Arrays;
 
@@ -56,7 +54,9 @@ public function __construct(array $config)
         $this->versionFormat = Arrays::get($config, ["versionFormat"], "{tag}");
 
         // version is constructed from git version tag
-        $this->version = (new Directory(__DIR__))->get(new CustomFormatter($this->versionFormat)) ?: "UNKNOWN";
+        $versionFile = __DIR__ . "/../../.version";
+        $version = file_exists($versionFile) ? trim(@file_get_contents($versionFile)) : null;
+        $this->version = $version ?: "UNKNOWN";
     }
 
     public function getAddress()
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index f72dd5126..56d9faff9 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
         "ext-zip": ">=1.15",
         "latte/latte": "^3.1",
         "league/commonmark": "^2.8",
-        "limenet/git-version": "v0.1.6",
         "nelmio/alice": "^3.17",
         "nette/application": "^3.2",
         "nette/bootstrap": "^3.2",
diff --git a/recodex-api.spec b/recodex-api.spec
index 328e7714f..ff319becf 100644
--- a/recodex-api.spec
+++ b/recodex-api.spec
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ License: MIT
 Group: Development/Libraries
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
 Prefix: %{_prefix}
-Vendor: Petr Stefan <UNKNOWN>
+Vendor: ReCodEx Team
 Url: https://github.com/ReCodEx/api
 Requires(post): systemd
 Requires(preun): systemd
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ ln -sf /var/log/recodex/core-api %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/log
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/temp
 cp -r www %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/www
 cp -r app %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/app
+echo "v%{version}-%{release}" > %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/app/.version
 cp -r bin %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/bin
 cp -r migrations %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/migrations
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{install_dir}/fixtures