diff --git a/cpp/.gitignore b/cpp/.gitignore
index e99e0273f35bccb8fb3c80dbc3435a742b688b69..88c9c4c2f480b9b5c6bb0f24f49b7f0ebc17b74d 100644
--- a/cpp/.gitignore
+++ b/cpp/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ third_party/bzip2-1.0.6/
 third_party/sqlite3/
 megasearch/
 conf/server_config.yaml
+version.h
diff --git a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 58ba3aea7de7454f34e94748619fdee060273ca3..7100ae01791b2757944cd89966218ea92e315442 100644
--- a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,11 +7,35 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
 message(STATUS "Building using CMake version: ${CMAKE_VERSION}")
 
-set(MEGASEARCH_VERSION "0.1.0")
+MACRO (GET_CURRENT_TIME CURRENT_TIME)
+    execute_process(COMMAND "date" +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M.%S" OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${CURRENT_TIME})
+ENDMACRO (GET_CURRENT_TIME)
 
-string(REGEX MATCH "^[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+" MEGASEARCH_BASE_VERSION "${MEGASEARCH_VERSION}")
+GET_CURRENT_TIME(BUILD_TIME)
+string(REGEX REPLACE "\n" "" BUILD_TIME ${BUILD_TIME})
+message(STATUS "Build time = ${BUILD_TIME}")
 
-project(megasearch VERSION "${MEGASEARCH_BASE_VERSION}")
+MACRO (GET_GIT_BRANCH_NAME GIT_BRANCH_NAME)
+    execute_process(COMMAND "git" symbolic-ref --short HEAD OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${GIT_BRANCH_NAME})
+ENDMACRO (GET_GIT_BRANCH_NAME)
+
+GET_GIT_BRANCH_NAME(GIT_BRANCH_NAME)
+string(REGEX REPLACE "\n" "" GIT_BRANCH_NAME ${GIT_BRANCH_NAME})
+
+set(MEGASEARCH_VERSION "${GIT_BRANCH_NAME}")
+string(REGEX MATCH "[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]" MEGASEARCH_VERSION "${MEGASEARCH_VERSION}")
+message(STATUS "Build version = ${MEGASEARCH_VERSION}")
+
+if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Release")
+    set(BUILD_TYPE "release")
+else()
+    set(BUILD_TYPE "debug")
+endif()
+message(STATUS "Build type = ${BUILD_TYPE}")
+
+configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/version.h.cf ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/version.h)
+
+project(megasearch VERSION "${MEGASEARCH_VERSION}")
 project(vecwise_engine LANGUAGES CUDA CXX)
 
 set(MEGASEARCH_VERSION_MAJOR "${megasearch_VERSION_MAJOR}")
diff --git a/cpp/src/main.cpp b/cpp/src/main.cpp
index 08ecb8c194342dc154a93dd48ce16561edb458b0..32f7c515e34c7ada899c8936efcba9174758fb4f 100644
--- a/cpp/src/main.cpp
+++ b/cpp/src/main.cpp
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // Proprietary and confidential.
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 #include "server/Server.h"
+#include "version.h"
 
 #include <getopt.h>
 #include <libgen.h>
@@ -25,8 +26,8 @@ using namespace zilliz::vecwise;
 
 int
 main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
-    printf("Vecwise engine server start...\n");
-//    zilliz::lib::gpu::InitMemoryAllocator();
+    printf("Megasearch %s version: v%s built at %s\n", BUILD_TYPE, MEGASEARCH_VERSION, BUILD_TIME);
+    printf("Megasearch server start...\n");
 
     signal(SIGINT, server::SignalUtil::HandleSignal);
     signal(SIGSEGV, server::SignalUtil::HandleSignal);
diff --git a/cpp/version.h.cf b/cpp/version.h.cf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1d61cb271fcd3728d67dbabc9568ac5d60873fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/version.h.cf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#define MEGASEARCH_VERSION "@MEGASEARCH_VERSION@"
+#define BUILD_TYPE "@BUILD_TYPE@"
+#define BUILD_TIME @BUILD_TIME@
\ No newline at end of file