diff --git a/admin/index.php b/admin/index.php
index a319bea824b..e740c722b6b 100644
--- a/admin/index.php
+++ b/admin/index.php
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     ////  IT IS ILLEGAL AND A VIOLATION OF THE GPL TO HIDE, REMOVE OR MODIFY THIS COPYRIGHT NOTICE ///
     $copyrighttext = '<a href="http://moodle.org/">Moodle</a> '.
-                     '<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Release">'.$CFG->release.'</a> ('.$CFG->version.')<br />'.
+                     '<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Release" title="'.$CFG->version.'">'.$CFG->release.'</a><br />'.
                      'Copyright &copy; 1999 onwards, Martin Dougiamas<br />'.
                      'and <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Credits">many other contributors</a>.<br />'.
                      '<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/License">GNU Public License</a>';
diff --git a/lib/weblib.php b/lib/weblib.php
index fc0e88b9411..4f7b79c3157 100644
--- a/lib/weblib.php
+++ b/lib/weblib.php
@@ -2421,7 +2421,7 @@ function print_footer($course=NULL, $usercourse=NULL, $return=false) {
         } else if (is_string($course) && $course == 'home') {   // special case for site home page - please do not remove
             $course = get_site();
             $homelink  = '<div class="sitelink">'.
-               '<a title="moodle '. $CFG->release .' ('. $CFG->version .')" href="http://moodle.org/">'.
+               '<a title="Moodle '. $CFG->release .'" href="http://moodle.org/">'.
                '<img style="width:100px;height:30px" src="pix/moodlelogo.gif" alt="moodlelogo" /></a></div>';
             $home  = true;
         } else {