diff --git a/utils/scripts/build/linux-build.sh b/utils/scripts/build/linux-build.sh
index 7780c0004..3c0b30e3a 100755
--- a/utils/scripts/build/linux-build.sh
+++ b/utils/scripts/build/linux-build.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ sudo chown eqemu:eqemu /home/eqemu/.ccache/ * -R
 
 git submodule init && git submodule update
 
+perl utils/scripts/build/tag-version.pl
+
 mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LOGIN=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LUA=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO:STRING="-Os" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache -G 'Unix Makefiles' .. && make -j$((`nproc`-4))
 
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Akkadius/eqemu-install-v2/master/eqemu_config.json --output eqemu_config.json
diff --git a/utils/scripts/build/tag-version.pl b/utils/scripts/build/tag-version.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..803b4f608
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/scripts/build/tag-version.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => 'all';
+
+open my $fh, '<', './package.json' or die "Can't open file $!";
+my $package_json = do {
+    local $/;
+    <$fh>
+};
+
+my $version = "";
+sub trim($)
+{
+    my $string = shift;
+    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
+    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
+    return $string;
+}
+
+# manually parse because we can't guarantee json module is available
+# it's jank but it's quick and dirty
+# this is only used in the build pipeline
+foreach my $line (split("\n", $package_json)) {
+    if ($line =~ /version/i) {
+        $version = $line;
+        $version =~ s/version//g;
+        $version =~ s/://g;
+        $version =~ s/"//g;
+        $version =~ s/,//g;
+        $version = trim($version);
+    }
+}
+
+print "Version is [" . $version . "]\n";
+
+# server version file
+my $version_file_name = "./common/version.h";
+open my $vfh, '<', $version_file_name or die "Can't open file $!";
+my $version_file = do {
+    local $/;
+    <$vfh>
+};
+
+# write new version
+my $new_version_file = "";
+foreach my $line (split("\n", $version_file)) {
+    if ($line =~ /CURRENT_VERSION/i) {
+        my @s = split("\"", $line);
+        if ($#s == 2) {
+            $line =~ s/$s[1]/$version/g;
+        }
+    }
+
+    $new_version_file .= $line . "\n";
+}
+
+open(my $wfh, '>', $version_file_name) or die "Could not open file '$version_file_name' $!";
+print $wfh $new_version_file;
+close $wfh;
+
+print $new_version_file;
diff --git a/utils/scripts/build/windows-build.ps1 b/utils/scripts/build/windows-build.ps1
index f4306c27d..95270bf5d 100644
--- a/utils/scripts/build/windows-build.ps1
+++ b/utils/scripts/build/windows-build.ps1
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ try
         New-Item -Path "$cwd\win-build-x64" -ItemType Directory
     }
 
+    perl .\utils\scripts\build\tag-version.pl
+
     Write-Information -MessageData "Creating build x64" -InformationAction Continue
     Set-Location -Path "$cwd\win-build-x64"
     cmake -Wno-dev -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DEQEMU_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_LOGIN=ON -DEQEMU_BUILD_ZLIB=ON "$cwd"