diff --git a/C4/Auth.pm b/C4/Auth.pm
index 7dcbb3b123..279d790080 100755
--- a/C4/Auth.pm
+++ b/C4/Auth.pm
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ sub get_template_and_user {
             "BiblioDefaultView".C4::Context->preference("BiblioDefaultView") => 1,
             OPACFRBRizeEditions => C4::Context->preference("OPACFRBRizeEditions"),
             'item-level_itypes' => C4::Context->preference('item-level_itypes'),
+            'Version' => C4::Context->preference('Version'),
 			yuipath => C4::Context->preference("yuipath"),
         );
     }
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-close.inc b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-close.inc
index 6c2f9a616e..c0912927b9 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-close.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-close.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 </title>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="generator" content="Koha <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="Version" -->" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="themelang" -->/includes/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
 <!-- TMPL_IF name="RSS" --><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Koha - RSS" href="<!-- TMPL_VAR name="site_url"-->/opac-rss.pl?q=<!-- TMPL_VAR name="searchdesc"-->" /><!-- /TMPL_IF -->
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="themelang" -->/lib/yui/button.css" />