diff --git a/rollup.config.js b/rollup.config.js
index 54591f0a..e11559ae 100644
--- a/rollup.config.js
+++ b/rollup.config.js
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ if (pkg.module !== ES_FILENAME || pkg.main !== CJS_FILENAME) {
 }  
 
 const outro = `
-__info__.version = '${pkg.version}';
 __info__.date = '${new Date().toISOString()}';
 __info__.hash = '${git.short()}';
 __info__.url = 'https://github.com/odoo/owl';
diff --git a/src/runtime/app.ts b/src/runtime/app.ts
index aecfbc4e..1b4b1946 100644
--- a/src/runtime/app.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/app.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { version } from "../version";
 import { Component, ComponentConstructor, Props } from "./component";
 import { ComponentNode } from "./component_node";
 import { nodeErrorHandlers, OwlError, handleError } from "./error_handling";
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ export class App<
   E = any
 > extends TemplateSet {
   static validateTarget = validateTarget;
+  static version = version;
 
   name: string;
   Root: ComponentConstructor<P, E>;
diff --git a/src/runtime/index.ts b/src/runtime/index.ts
index a01a3574..a1013eae 100644
--- a/src/runtime/index.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { App } from "./app";
 import {
   config,
   createBlock,
@@ -56,4 +57,6 @@ export {
 export { validate } from "./validation";
 export { OwlError } from "./error_handling";
 
-export const __info__ = {};
+export const __info__ = {
+  version: App.version,
+};
diff --git a/src/version.ts b/src/version.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bec7bf6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/version.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+// do not modify manually. This value is updated by the release script.
+export const version = "2.0.7";
diff --git a/tools/release.js b/tools/release.js
index 4becd5e2..9584334c 100644
--- a/tools/release.js
+++ b/tools/release.js
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ async function startRelease() {
   // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   log(`Step 3/${STEPS}: updating package.json...`);
   await replaceInFile("./package.json", current, next);
+  await replaceInFile("./src/version.ts", current, next);
 
   // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   log(`Step 4/${STEPS}: creating git commit...`);