diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 35728830d..58af3aca4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
+
+# NOTE(fuzzpixelz): The ci/scripts/bump.bash scripts sets the project version
+# using regular expressions on this statement.
+set(ZENOHC_VERSION 0.11.0.0)
+
 project(
 	zenohc
-	VERSION 0.11.0.0
+	VERSION ${ZENOHC_VERSION}
 	DESCRIPTION "The C bindings for Zenoh"
 	HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-c"
 	LANGUAGES C