diff --git a/admin/code/LeftAndMain.php b/admin/code/LeftAndMain.php
index 14d2b2773..d175ac8a8 100644
--- a/admin/code/LeftAndMain.php
+++ b/admin/code/LeftAndMain.php
@@ -1131,27 +1131,17 @@ class LeftAndMain extends Controller {
 	/**
 	 * Return the version number of this application.
 	 * Uses the subversion path information in <mymodule>/silverstripe_version
-	 * (automacially replaced $URL$ placeholder).
+	 * (automacially replaced by build scripts).
 	 * 
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	public function CMSVersion() {
-		$sapphireVersionFile = file_get_contents(BASE_PATH . '/sapphire/silverstripe_version');		
-		$sapphireVersion = $this->versionFromVersionFile($sapphireVersionFile);
-
-		return "sapphire: $sapphireVersion";
-	}
-	
-	/**
-	 * Return the version from the content of a silverstripe_version file
-	 */
-	public function versionFromVersionFile($fileContent) {
-		if(preg_match('/\/trunk\/silverstripe_version/', $fileContent)) {
-			return "trunk";
-		} else {
-			preg_match("/\/(?:branches|tags\/rc|tags\/beta|tags\/alpha|tags)\/([A-Za-z0-9._-]+)\/silverstripe_version/", $fileContent, $matches);
-			return ($matches) ? $matches[1] : null;
-		}
+		$sapphireVersion = file_get_contents(BASE_PATH . '/cms/silverstripe_version');
+		if(!$sapphireVersion) $sapphireVersion = _t('LeftAndMain.VersionUnknown', 'unknown');
+		return sprintf(
+			"sapphire: %s",
+			$sapphireVersion
+		);
 	}
 	
 	/**
diff --git a/admin/templates/Includes/LeftAndMain_Menu.ss b/admin/templates/Includes/LeftAndMain_Menu.ss
index bad63d06f..8d1614b0a 100644
--- a/admin/templates/Includes/LeftAndMain_Menu.ss
+++ b/admin/templates/Includes/LeftAndMain_Menu.ss
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <div class="cms-menu cms-panel cms-panel-layout west" id="cms-menu" data-layout="{type: 'border'}">
 	<div class="cms-panel-header cms-logo-header north">
 		<div class="cms-logo">
-			<a href="http://www.silverstripe.org/" target="_blank">
+			<a href="http://www.silverstripe.org/" target="_blank" title="SilverStripe (Version - $CMSVersion)">
 				SilverStripe <% if CMSVersion %><abbr class="version">$CMSVersion</abbr><% end_if %>
 			</a>
 			<span>$SiteConfig.Title</span>
diff --git a/admin/tests/LeftAndMainTest.php b/admin/tests/LeftAndMainTest.php
index e9db754e1..5cc500431 100644
--- a/admin/tests/LeftAndMainTest.php
+++ b/admin/tests/LeftAndMainTest.php
@@ -82,25 +82,6 @@ class LeftAndMainTest extends FunctionalTest {
 		$this->assertEquals(3, $page32->Sort, 'Children pages after insertion are resorted');
 	}
 	
-	/**
-	 * Test that CMS versions can be interpreted appropriately
-	 */
-	public function testCMSVersion() {
-		$l = new LeftAndMain();
-		$this->assertEquals("2.4", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/branches/2.4/silverstripe_version $'));
-		$this->assertEquals("2.2.0", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/tags/2.2.0/silverstripe_version $'));
-		$this->assertEquals("trunk", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/trunk/silverstripe_version $'));
-		$this->assertEquals("2.4.0-alpha1", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/tags/alpha/2.4.0-alpha1/silverstripe_version $'));
-		$this->assertEquals("2.4.0-beta1", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/tags/beta/2.4.0-beta1/silverstripe_version $'));
-		$this->assertEquals("2.4.0-rc1", $l->versionFromVersionFile(
-			'$URL: http://svn.silverstripe.com/open/modules/sapphire/tags/rc/2.4.0-rc1/silverstripe_version $'));
-	}
-	
 	/**
 	 * Check that all subclasses of leftandmain can be accessed
 	 */
diff --git a/silverstripe_version b/silverstripe_version
index 8c6cfe75e..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/silverstripe_version
+++ b/silverstripe_version
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-$URL$