diff --git a/numpydoc/__init__.py b/numpydoc/__init__.py
index fe4477bf..7f72faec 100644
--- a/numpydoc/__init__.py
+++ b/numpydoc/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
-__version__ = '0.6.0'
+from ._version import __version__
 
 from .numpydoc import setup
diff --git a/numpydoc/_version.py b/numpydoc/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b47e8d30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/numpydoc/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+__version__ = '0.7.0'
+
diff --git a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
index eab47569..eb315aa9 100644
--- a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
+++ b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     raise RuntimeError("Sphinx 1.0.1 or newer is required")
 
 from .docscrape_sphinx import get_doc_object, SphinxDocString
+from ._version import __version__
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     sixu = lambda s: s
@@ -141,7 +142,8 @@ def setup(app, get_doc_object_=get_doc_object):
     app.add_domain(NumpyPythonDomain)
     app.add_domain(NumpyCDomain)
 
-    metadata = {'parallel_read_safe': True}
+    metadata = {'version': __version__,
+                'parallel_read_safe': True}
     return metadata
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b21e82bd..904d4df0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 if sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 7) or (3, 0) <= sys.version_info[0:2] < (3, 4):
     raise RuntimeError("Python version 2.7 or >= 3.4 required.")
 
-with open('numpydoc/__init__.py') as fid:
+with open('numpydoc/_version.py') as fid:
     for line in fid:
         if line.startswith('__version__'):
             version = line.strip().split()[-1][1:-1]