diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 2495506..e6aa98a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ repository history](https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/commits/master).
 
 ### Bug fixes
   * Fixed simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 updates for provider porkbun
+  * Removed @PACKAGE_VERSION@ placeholder in ddclient.in for now
+    to allow downstream to adopt the proper build process first.
+    See [here](https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/issues/579) for the discussion.
 
 ## 2023-10-21 v3.11.0
 This version is the same as v3.11.0_1 (except for the updated version number in the code).
diff --git a/ddclient.in b/ddclient.in
index ee30419..94622aa 100755
--- a/ddclient.in
+++ b/ddclient.in
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use File::Temp;
 use Getopt::Long;
 use Sys::Hostname;
 
-use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('@PACKAGE_VERSION@');
+use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('3.11.1_0');
 my $version = $VERSION->stringify();
 my $programd = $0;
 $programd =~ s%^.*/%%;