diff -up src/Phinx/Console/PhinxApplication.php.rpm src/Phinx/Console/PhinxApplication.php
--- src/Phinx/Console/PhinxApplication.php.rpm	2017-12-23 17:33:14.486694897 +0100
+++ src/Phinx/Console/PhinxApplication.php	2017-12-23 17:33:39.408810505 +0100
@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ class PhinxApplication extends Applicati
      */
     public function __construct()
     {
-        $composerConfig = json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../../../composer.json'));
-        $version = $composerConfig->version;
+        $version = '@VERSION@';
 
         parent::__construct('Phinx by CakePHP - https://phinx.org.', $version);