diff --git a/common/GPodderCore.qml b/common/GPodderCore.qml
index f0f63f2..aa778fb 100644
--- a/common/GPodderCore.qml
+++ b/common/GPodderCore.qml
@@ -40,11 +40,9 @@ Python {
     signal updatedPodcast(var podcast)
 
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        setHandler('hello', function (version, copyright, date, url) {
-            console.log('gPodder ' + version + ' (' + date + ')');
-            console.log(url);
-            console.log(copyright);
-
+        setHandler('hello', function (coreversion, uiversion) {
+            console.log('gPodder Core ' + coreversion);
+            console.log('gPodder QML UI ' + uiversion);
             console.log('PyOtherSide ' + py.pluginVersion());
             console.log('Python ' + py.pythonVersion());
         });
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 75132ac..b6d40ef 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #
 
+# Version of the QML UI implementation, this is usually the same as the version
+# of gpodder-core, but we might have a different release schedule later on. If
+# we decide to have parallel releases, we can at least start using this version
+# to check if the core version is compatible with the QML UI version.
+__version__ = '4.0.0'
 
 import sys
 import os
@@ -294,9 +299,7 @@ class gPotherSide:
 gpotherside = gPotherSide()
 pyotherside.atexit(gpotherside.atexit)
 
-pyotherside.send('hello',
-        gpodder.__version__, gpodder.__copyright__,
-        gpodder.__date__, gpodder.__url__)
+pyotherside.send('hello', gpodder.__version__, __version__)
 
 # Exposed API Endpoints for calls from QML
 initialize = gpotherside.initialize