diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 39e74ed3..87a015d9 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 3.26)
 
+# The VERSION file is the single source of truth for the version, and JFJOCH_VERSION carries it
+# verbatim - including a pre-release suffix such as "-rc.161" - into the package names, the DKMS
+# install path and the version every binary reports. PROJECT(VERSION) cannot hold that string: it
+# only accepts numeric major.minor.patch, so the numeric part is cut out of the same file rather
+# than written out a second time, and PROJECT_VERSION can never drift from VERSION.
 FILE(STRINGS VERSION JFJOCH_VERSION)
+STRING(REGEX MATCH "^[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+" JFJOCH_VERSION_NUMERIC "${JFJOCH_VERSION}")
 
-PROJECT(jfjoch VERSION 1.0.0 LANGUAGES C CXX)
+PROJECT(jfjoch VERSION ${JFJOCH_VERSION_NUMERIC} LANGUAGES C CXX)
 SET(CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0077 NEW)
 
 SET(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
@@ -62,7 +68,11 @@ ENDIF()
 
 CHECK_LANGUAGE(CUDA)
 
-SET(CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES 75 80 86 89 90 100 120) # T4, A100, RTX A4000, L4
+# GPU architectures to generate device code for: Turing (T4), Ampere (A100; RTX A4000), Ada (L4),
+# Hopper, and Blackwell in both its data-centre and consumer forms. A bare entry emits SASS *and*
+# PTX for that architecture, so the newest one here also covers any future GPU: the driver
+# JIT-compiles its PTX on first launch.
+SET(CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES 75 80 86 89 90 100 120)
 SET(CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD 20)
 SET(CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD_REQUIRED True)
 SET(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS_RELEASE "-O3 -lineinfo")
@@ -79,7 +89,7 @@ IF (CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER)
             ADD_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS(JFJOCH_USE_CUDA)
             SET(JFJOCH_CUDA_AVAILABLE ON)
             # Blackwell GB10 (DGX Spark) is sm_121, only known to nvcc >= 12.9; add it there so the
-            # binary launches natively on Spark (the list above tops out at sm_120 and embeds no PTX).
+            # binary runs natively on Spark instead of having the driver JIT sm_120 PTX for it.
             IF (CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "12.9")
                 LIST(APPEND CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES 121)
             ENDIF()
diff --git a/common/CMakeLists.txt b/common/CMakeLists.txt
index 43eafcec..0884f5bb 100644
--- a/common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND
 set (THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON)
 find_package (Threads REQUIRED)
 
-FILE(STRINGS ../VERSION PACKAGE_VERSION)
 MESSAGE(STATUS "Jungfraujoch git SHA1: ${GIT_SHA1}")
 MESSAGE(STATUS "Jungfraujoch git date: ${GIT_DATE}")
-MESSAGE(STATUS "Jungfraujoch version: ${PACKAGE_VERSION}")
+MESSAGE(STATUS "Jungfraujoch version: ${JFJOCH_VERSION}")
 
 CONFIGURE_FILE("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/GitInfo.cpp.in" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/GitInfo.cpp" @ONLY)
 
diff --git a/common/GitInfo.cpp.in b/common/GitInfo.cpp.in
index f5619485..98caf90e 100644
--- a/common/GitInfo.cpp.in
+++ b/common/GitInfo.cpp.in
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ std::string jfjoch_git_date() {
 }
 
 std::string jfjoch_version() {
-    return "@PACKAGE_VERSION@";
+    return "@JFJOCH_VERSION@";
 }
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