diff --git a/dbtemplates/__init__.py b/dbtemplates/__init__.py
index 777f190..2f7c2e2 100644
--- a/dbtemplates/__init__.py
+++ b/dbtemplates/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
-__version__ = "0.8.0"
+VERSION = (1, 0, 0, "f", 0)  # following PEP 386
+DEV_N = None
+
+
+def get_version():
+    version = "%s.%s" % (VERSION[0], VERSION[1])
+    if VERSION[2]:
+        version = "%s.%s" % (version, VERSION[2])
+    if VERSION[3] != "f":
+        version = "%s%s%s" % (version, VERSION[3], VERSION[4])
+        if DEV_N:
+            version = "%s.dev%s" % (version, DEV_N)
+    return version
+
+
+__version__ = get_version()
diff --git a/docs/changelog.txt b/docs/changelog.txt
index a09de98..344a903 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-1.0.0 (04-11-11)
-----------------
+1.0 (04-11-11)
+--------------
 
 .. warning::
     This is the first stable release of django-dbtemplates which comes with a
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 7bac384..101e1cf 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ copyright = u'2010, Jannis Leidel'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.8.0'
+version = '1.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.8.0'
+release = '1.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.