diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3f898ea..31ce530 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["hatchling"]
+requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Issues = "https://github.com/nocomplexity/codeaudit/issues"
 Source = "https://github.com/nocomplexity/codeaudit"
 
 [tool.hatch.version]
-path = "src/codeaudit/__about__.py"
+source = "vcs"
 
 
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
diff --git a/src/codeaudit/__about__.py b/src/codeaudit/__about__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 829f225..0000000
--- a/src/codeaudit/__about__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025-present Maikel Mardjan
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-__version__ = "1.6.2"
diff --git a/src/codeaudit/__init__.py b/src/codeaudit/__init__.py
index c27c1ea..d187fd6 100644
--- a/src/codeaudit/__init__.py
+++ b/src/codeaudit/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025-present Maikel Mardjan - https://nocomplexity.com/
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-from .__about__ import __version__
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
+__version__ = version("codeaudit")