diff --git a/generate_bls_conf.sh b/generate_bls_conf.sh
index 8d9ec0699..fa84eae5a 100755
--- a/generate_bls_conf.sh
+++ b/generate_bls_conf.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ fi
 
 cat >${output} <<EOF
 title ${NAME} (${kernelver}) ${VERSION}${debugname}
+version ${kernelver}
 linux ${bootprefix}/vmlinuz-${kernelver}
 initrd ${bootprefix}/initramfs-${kernelver}.img
 options \$kernelopts
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index ddb294fd2..b634f5b3c 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -1875,6 +1875,9 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 19 2018 Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
+- Include version field to generated BLS configuration fragment
+
 * Mon Mar 19 2018 Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org> - 4.16.0-0.rc6.git0.1
 - Linux v4.16-rc6