diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 088c63ba..490c3f1e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1638,6 +1638,8 @@ Thomas G
  for making the 'new' indicator in the Recordings menu kept up-to-date
  for reporting a crash when setting the time transponder in the Setup menu
  for reporting a bug in the initial setting of the time transponder setup parameter
+ for suggesting to extend the version number reported with the '-V' option to also
+ show the current APIVERSION
 
 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
  for his help in replacing the get/put_unaligned() macros from asm/unaligned.h with
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 2ef1e7ad..07ae0c51 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4637,3 +4637,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   'sed' call.
 - Updated the Swedish OSD texts (thanks to Tomas Prybil).
 - Modified the German OSD texts to be "less technical" (thanks to Andreas Brachold).
+- Extended the version number reported with the '-V' option to also show the
+  current APIVERSION (suggested by Thomas Günther).
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index aa12220a..ff87c030 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.263 2006/04/21 14:51:21 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 1.264 2006/04/22 11:26:04 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                );
         }
      if (DisplayVersion)
-        printf("vdr (%s) - The Video Disk Recorder\n", VDRVERSION);
+        printf("vdr (%s/%s) - The Video Disk Recorder\n", VDRVERSION, APIVERSION);
      if (PluginManager.HasPlugins()) {
         if (DisplayHelp)
            printf("Plugins: vdr -P\"name [OPTIONS]\"\n\n");