diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1cc2341..14dc681 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
    limitations under the License.
 -->
 
+<!--
+    Pass in the version on manual builds (i.e. mvn clean package -Dproject-version=1.0)
+ -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@
   <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>zmq-event-publisher</artifactId>
   <packaging>hpi</packaging>
-  <version>1.0</version>
+  <version>${project-version}</version>
 
   <name>Jenkins Event Publisher (via ZMQ PUB SUB)</name>
   <url>https://github.com/cboylan/zmq-event-publisher</url>