diff --git a/lib/PBot/PBot.pm b/lib/PBot/Core.pm
similarity index 99%
rename from lib/PBot/PBot.pm
rename to lib/PBot/Core.pm
index 659a8eaa..fd9a3e72 100644
--- a/lib/PBot/PBot.pm
+++ b/lib/PBot/Core.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# File: PBot.pm
+# File: Core.pm
 #
-# Purpose: IRC Bot
+# Purpose: PBot IRC Bot Core
 #
 # PBot was started around 2004, 2005. It has been lovingly maintained;
 # however, it does use the ancient but simple Net::IRC package (if it
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
-package PBot::PBot;
+package PBot::Core;
 
 use PBot::Imports;
 use PBot::VERSION;
diff --git a/lib/PBot/VERSION.pm b/lib/PBot/VERSION.pm
index 63e9bfbe..aabc031a 100644
--- a/lib/PBot/VERSION.pm
+++ b/lib/PBot/VERSION.pm
@@ -12,13 +12,10 @@ use parent 'PBot::Core::Class';
 use PBot::Imports;
 
 use Exporter qw/import/;
-
 our @EXPORT = ();
-
 our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
     'all' => [qw/BUILD_NAME BUILD_REVISION BUILD_DATE/],
 );
-
 our @EXPORT_OK = (
     @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{all} },
 );
@@ -31,10 +28,7 @@ use constant {
 };
 
 sub initialize {
-    my ($self, %conf) = @_;
-
-    # initialize last_check version data
-    $self->{last_check} = {timestamp => 0, version => BUILD_REVISION, date => BUILD_DATE};
+    # nothing to do here
 }
 
 sub version {
diff --git a/script/pbot b/script/pbot
index 4f13902f..b223ffb5 100755
--- a/script/pbot
+++ b/script/pbot
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ use FindBin qw($RealBin);
 use lib "$RealBin/../lib";
 use lib "$ENV{HOME}/.pbot";
 
-use PBot::PBot;
+use PBot::Core;
 
-PBot::PBot->new(
+PBot::Core->new(
     data_dir   => "$RealBin/../data",
     module_dir => "$RealBin/../modules",
     update_dir => "$RealBin/../updates",