diff --git a/cal_tools/cal_tools/titlepage.tmpl b/cal_tools/cal_tools/titlepage.tmpl
index 0b3903af7d288b6abec66412b04ae494d4a62c7e..39c8e8ac6be4647c0df260bd00f77cd5ac4e7381 100644
--- a/cal_tools/cal_tools/titlepage.tmpl
+++ b/cal_tools/cal_tools/titlepage.tmpl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
   Based on data sample: {{ data_path }}
 
-  Release : 0.1
+  Release : {{ version }}
 
   \vspace*{0mm}
   \today
diff --git a/cal_tools/cal_tools/tools.py b/cal_tools/cal_tools/tools.py
index cfea5e7a8b973ac043cfd0fb5db080f55fc3d170..363dd51c8a821b4f9645896887b4772a91ddcb72 100644
--- a/cal_tools/cal_tools/tools.py
+++ b/cal_tools/cal_tools/tools.py
@@ -283,13 +283,14 @@ def make_report(run_path, tmp_path, out_path, project, author, version,
     rmtree(tmp_path)
 
 
-def make_titlepage(sphinx_path, project, data_path):
+def make_titlepage(sphinx_path, project, data_path, version):
     """
     Create title page for report using template
 
     :param sphinx_path: path to sphinx run directory
     :param project: title of the project
     :param data_path: path to input data sample used for notebook
+    :param version: Version of the pycalibration tool
     """
     module_path = "{}".format(path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__)))
     with open('{}/titlepage.tmpl'.format(module_path)) as file_:
@@ -297,7 +298,8 @@ def make_titlepage(sphinx_path, project, data_path):
 
     with open("{}/titlepage.tex.txt".format(sphinx_path), "w+") as mf:
         mf.write(dedent(title_tmp.render(project=project,
-                                         data_path=data_path)))
+                                         data_path=data_path,
+                                         version=version)))
 
 
 def finalize(joblist, finaljob, run_path, out_path, project, calibration,
@@ -317,7 +319,7 @@ def finalize(joblist, finaljob, run_path, out_path, project, calibration,
     prepare_plots(run_path)
     make_timing_summary(run_path, joblist + [str(finaljob)])
     sphinx_path = combine_report(run_path, calibration)
-    make_titlepage(sphinx_path, project, data_path)
+    make_titlepage(sphinx_path, project, data_path, version)
     make_report(sphinx_path, run_path, out_path, project, author, version,
                 report_to)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 49d494d71b8f1dc3944c60ed0237a6fb5888e76a..391d522db505b3e17d87e34e4e37f335c12f3aee 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import glob
 from setuptools import setup
 from setuptools.command.install import install
-from subprocess import check_call
+from subprocess import check_call, check_output
+from distutils.command.build import build
 import sys
 
 
@@ -23,9 +23,18 @@ class PostInstallCommand(install):
         else:
             print("Python environment seems to not be a Karabo environment. "+
                   "Please install PyDetLib manually.")
-            
-        
-        
+
+
+class PreInstallCommand(build):
+    """Pre-installation for installation mode."""
+    def run(self):
+        version = check_output(['git', 'describe', '--tag']).decode('utf8')
+        version = version.replace("\n", "")
+        file = open('xfel_calibrate/VERSION.py', 'w')
+        file.write('__version__="{}"'.format(version))
+        file.close()
+
+        build.run(self)
 
 
 from xfel_calibrate.notebooks import notebooks
@@ -47,6 +56,7 @@ setup(
     },
     
     cmdclass={
+        'build' : PreInstallCommand,
         'install': PostInstallCommand,
     },
     url='',
diff --git a/xfel_calibrate/calibrate.py b/xfel_calibrate/calibrate.py
index 259db8c1e19ba02b281912d3fe5f6233b82c4dde..a0bc15a0128f40508baa891a986d00507e496f9b 100755
--- a/xfel_calibrate/calibrate.py
+++ b/xfel_calibrate/calibrate.py
@@ -130,11 +130,22 @@ def extract_title_author_version(nb):
     title = title[0] if len(title) else None
     author = author[0] if len(author) else None
 
-    git_dir = '{}/../.git'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-    version = check_output(['git',
-                            '--git-dir={}'.format(git_dir),
-                            'describe', '--tag']).decode('utf8')
-    version = version.replace("\n", "")
+    # Try to get version from the git
+    # Will work only in case of the development installation
+    # Suppress output errors
+    # In case of a standard installation a version is stored
+    # in the _version.py file
+    try:
+        git_dir = '{}/../.git'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+        FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
+        version = check_output(['git',
+                                '--git-dir={}'.format(git_dir),
+                                'describe', '--tag'],
+                               stderr=FNULL).decode('utf8')
+        version = version.replace("\n", "")
+    except:
+        from .VERSION import __version__
+        version = __version__
     return title, author, version