diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 26f96edf..a66ad812 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-07-02  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	bug #26130: Avrdude doesn't display it's version.
+	* main.c (usage): add a version number display to the default usage
+	message.
+
 2009-07-01  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	bug #26412: avrdude segfaults when called with a programmer that does not
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 62cb4dae..96b80575 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * avrdude - A Downloader/Uploader for AVR device programmers
  * Copyright (C) 2000-2005  Brian S. Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
- * Copyright 2007 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+ * Copyright 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ static void usage(void)
  "  -v                         Verbose output. -v -v for more.\n"
  "  -q                         Quell progress output. -q -q for less.\n"
  "  -?                         Display this usage.\n"
- "\navrdude project: <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude>\n"
-          ,progname);
+ "\navrdude version %s, URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude/>\n"
+          ,progname, version);
 }