diff --git a/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/__init__.py b/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/__init__.py
index 61b3bc8..d0dfb97 100644
--- a/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/__init__.py
+++ b/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# Version of the RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary package
-__version__ = "0.0.2"
 
 from typing import Dict, Optional
 
diff --git a/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/version.py b/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97de229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Version of the RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary package
+__version__ = "0.0.4"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2dd161e..618119c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 import pathlib
+from distutils import dirname
 from setuptools import setup
-from RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary import __version__
+import os
+
+
+version_file = os.path.join(dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'RobotFrameworkElasticSearchLibrary', 'version.py')
+
+with open(version_file) as file:
+    code = compile(file.read(), version_file, 'exec')
+    exec(code)
 
 # The directory containing this file
 HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent