diff --git a/ebean-api/pom.xml b/ebean-api/pom.xml
index cf4ae1bcb..fc1ccc676 100644
--- a/ebean-api/pom.xml
+++ b/ebean-api/pom.xml
@@ -103,4 +103,23 @@
 
   </dependencies>
 
+  <build>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+        <filtering>true</filtering>
+        <includes>
+          <include>**/ebean-maven-version.txt</include>
+        </includes>
+      </resource>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+        <filtering>false</filtering>
+        <excludes>
+          <exclude>**/ebean-maven-version.txt</exclude>
+        </excludes>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+  </build>
+
 </project>
diff --git a/ebean-api/src/main/java/io/ebean/EbeanVersion.java b/ebean-api/src/main/java/io/ebean/EbeanVersion.java
index c4e63efff..ec976a74e 100644
--- a/ebean-api/src/main/java/io/ebean/EbeanVersion.java
+++ b/ebean-api/src/main/java/io/ebean/EbeanVersion.java
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ package io.ebean;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
@@ -29,9 +28,11 @@ public final class EbeanVersion {
 
   private static void readVersion() {
     try {
-      try (InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("META-INF/maven/io.ebean/ebean-api/pom.properties")) {
+      try (InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("META-INF/ebean-maven-version.txt")) {
         if (in != null) {
-          version = readVersion(in);
+          try (LineNumberReader reader = new LineNumberReader(new InputStreamReader(in))) {
+            version = reader.readLine();
+          }
         }
       }
       log.info("ebean version: {}", version);
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ public final class EbeanVersion {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Returns the ebean version (read from /META-INF/maven/io.ebean/ebean/pom.properties)
+   * Returns the ebean version (read from META-INF/ebean-maven-version.txt)
    */
   public static String getVersion() {
     return version;
diff --git a/ebean-api/src/main/resources/META-INF/ebean-maven-version.txt b/ebean-api/src/main/resources/META-INF/ebean-maven-version.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad96e7cf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ebean-api/src/main/resources/META-INF/ebean-maven-version.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+${project.version}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 246f69351..4e2418885 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.avaje</groupId>
     <artifactId>java11-oss</artifactId>
-    <version>3.8</version>
+    <version>3.9</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>io.ebean</groupId>