diff --git a/searx/templates/eelo/base.html b/searx/templates/eelo/base.html
index 31fb8160f4358a6e05ebfc32e8986f3f94bd752d..94dae554ad56ab34361792c92761be4b6128f9ff 100644
--- a/searx/templates/eelo/base.html
+++ b/searx/templates/eelo/base.html
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
             <small>
                 e Foundation 2018-2019,
                 {{ _('Powered by') }} <a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/cloud/my-spot">Spot</a>
-                {{ searx_version }}.<br/>An open-source metasearch engine forked from <a href="https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/">Searx</a>. 
+                {{ metadata_version }}.<br/>An open-source metasearch engine forked from <a href="https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/">Searx</a> {{ searx_version }}.
                 <span class="links">
                     <a href="https://e.foundation">{{ _('About') }}</a>
                     <a href="https://e.foundation/privacy-policy">{{ _('Privacy') }}</a>
diff --git a/searx/version.py b/searx/version.py
index 473eb722d04489ddf53a0f4685ec13fc3c231959..11bbcbffe0df864ff2f9066fb03d874f7d9b05dd 100644
--- a/searx/version.py
+++ b/searx/version.py
@@ -22,3 +22,9 @@ try:
     VERSION_STRING = get_distribution("searx").version
 except DistributionNotFound:
     VERSION_STRING = "0.0.0"
+
+try:
+    SEARX_VERSION, METADATA_VERSION = VERSION_STRING.split("+")
+except ValueError:
+    SEARX_VERSION = VERSION_STRING
+    METADATA_VERSION = ""
diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index fea6046e2a1859409af6ca76b39ed73d402b1473..48ccef9349c9caa6007f13c7f6b14e5e47dde36a 100644
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ from searx.utils import (
     get_static_files, get_result_templates, get_themes, gen_useragent,
     dict_subset, prettify_url, match_language
 )
-from searx.version import VERSION_STRING
+from searx.version import VERSION_STRING, SEARX_VERSION, METADATA_VERSION
 from searx.languages import language_codes as languages
 from searx.search import Search
 from searx.search_database import RedisCache
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ def render(template_name, override_theme=None, **kwargs):
     if locale in rtl_locales and 'rtl' not in kwargs:
         kwargs['rtl'] = True
 
-    kwargs['searx_version'] = VERSION_STRING
+    kwargs['searx_version'] = SEARX_VERSION
+    kwargs['metadata_version'] = METADATA_VERSION
 
     kwargs['method'] = request.preferences.get_value('method')