diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 06ebf9b7..cd2b46a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Changelog
 All notable changes to Oragono will be documented in this file.
-This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
+
+This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/). For the purposes of versioning, we consider the "public API" to refer to the configuration files, CLI interface and database format.
 
 
 ## Unreleased
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6884ac5..d9c3580a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Oragono is a very early, extremely experimental fork of the [Ergonomadic](https://github.com/edmund-huber/ergonomadic) IRC daemon. Ergonomadic looks cool, and this is something I can experiment on. Hopefully most of the stuff I do in this can be merged back into Ergonomadic! Also see the [mammon](https://github.com/mammon-ircd/mammon) IRC daemon for something similar written in Python.
 
+This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/). For the purposes of versioning, we consider the "public API" to refer to the configuration files, CLI interface and database format.
+
 # Features
 
 * UTF-8 nick and channel names
diff --git a/irc/constants.go b/irc/constants.go
index 90647267..0a71e8fe 100644
--- a/irc/constants.go
+++ b/irc/constants.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package irc
 
 const (
-	SEM_VER       = "oragono-1.4.4"
+	SEM_VER       = "oragono-0.1.0-unreleased"
 	CRLF          = "\r\n"
 	MAX_REPLY_LEN = 512 - len(CRLF)