diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57b6c60a..06775a6b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ ver. 0.10.4-dev-1 (20??/??/??) - development edition
 ### New Features
 
 ### Enhancements
+* since v.0.10.4, fail2ban-client, fail2ban-server and fail2ban-regex will return version without logo info,
+  additionally option `-V` can be used to get version in normalized machine-readable short format.
 
 
 ver. 0.10.3 (2018/04/04) - the-time-is-always-right-to-do-what-is-right
diff --git a/fail2ban/client/fail2bancmdline.py b/fail2ban/client/fail2bancmdline.py
index 269fa174..1268ee9f 100644
--- a/fail2ban/client/fail2bancmdline.py
+++ b/fail2ban/client/fail2bancmdline.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import sys
 
-from ..version import version
+from ..version import version, normVersion
 from ..protocol import printFormatted
 from ..helpers import getLogger, str2LogLevel, getVerbosityFormat
 
@@ -78,12 +78,11 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 		for o in obj.__dict__:
 			self.__dict__[o] = obj.__dict__[o]
 
-	def dispVersion(self):
-		output("Fail2Ban v" + version)
-		output("")
-		output("Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2008- Fail2Ban Contributors")
-		output("Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.")
-		output("Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).")
+	def dispVersion(self, short=False):
+		if not short:
+			output("Fail2Ban v" + version)
+		else:
+			output(normVersion())
 
 	def dispUsage(self):
 		""" Prints Fail2Ban command line options and exits
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 		output("    --timeout               timeout to wait for the server (for internal usage only, don't read configuration)")
 		output("    --str2sec <STRING>      convert time abbreviation format to seconds")
 		output("    -h, --help              display this help message")
-		output("    -V, --version           print the version")
+		output("    -V, --version           print the version (-V returns machine-readable short format)")
 
 		if not caller.endswith('server'):
 			output("")
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 				self.dispUsage()
 				return True
 			elif o in ["-V", "--version"]:
-				self.dispVersion()
+				self.dispVersion(o == "-V")
 				return True
 		return None
 
diff --git a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
index b03c5cf6..6add0eaa 100644
--- a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
+++ b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ try: # pragma: no cover
 except ImportError:
 	FilterSystemd = None
 
-from ..version import version
+from ..version import version, normVersion
 from .filterreader import FilterReader
 from ..server.filter import Filter, FileContainer
 from ..server.failregex import Regex, RegexException
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ def journal_lines_gen(flt, myjournal): # pragma: no cover
 			break
 		yield flt.formatJournalEntry(entry)
 
+def dumpNormVersion(*args):
+	output(normVersion())
+	sys.exit(0)
+
 def get_opt_parser():
 	# use module docstring for help output
 	p = OptionParser(
@@ -145,6 +149,8 @@ Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
 			   dest="log_level",
 			   default='critical',
 			   help="Log level for the Fail2Ban logger to use"),
+		Option('-V', action="callback", callback=dumpNormVersion,
+			   help="get version in machine-readable short format"),
 		Option('-v', '--verbose', action="count", dest="verbose",
 			   default=0,
 			   help="Increase verbosity"),
diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/fail2banclienttestcase.py b/fail2ban/tests/fail2banclienttestcase.py
index 5dcbdef5..cde8f4f5 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/fail2banclienttestcase.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/fail2banclienttestcase.py
@@ -452,7 +452,10 @@ class Fail2banClientTest(Fail2banClientServerBase):
 		self.assertLogged("Usage: " + CLIENT)
 		self.assertLogged("Report bugs to ")
 		self.pruneLog()
-		self.execCmd(SUCCESS, (), "-vq", "-V")
+		self.execCmd(SUCCESS, (), "-V")
+		self.assertLogged(fail2bancmdline.normVersion())
+		self.pruneLog()
+		self.execCmd(SUCCESS, (), "-vq", "--version")
 		self.assertLogged("Fail2Ban v" + fail2bancmdline.version)
 		self.pruneLog()
 		self.execCmd(SUCCESS, (), "--str2sec", "1d12h30m")
diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py b/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py
index b1786c03..c3919230 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/fail2banregextestcase.py
@@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ class Fail2banRegexTest(LogCaptureTestCase):
 
 	def testExecCmdLine_Usage(self):
 		self.assertNotEqual(_test_exec_command_line(), 0)
+		self.pruneLog()
+		self.assertEqual(_test_exec_command_line('-V'), 0)
+		self.assertLogged(fail2banregex.normVersion())
+		self.pruneLog()
+		self.assertEqual(_test_exec_command_line('--version'), 0)
 
 	def testExecCmdLine_Direct(self):
 		self.assertEqual(_test_exec_command_line(
diff --git a/fail2ban/version.py b/fail2ban/version.py
index 41a32469..2a515592 100644
--- a/fail2ban/version.py
+++ b/fail2ban/version.py
@@ -25,3 +25,7 @@ __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004 Cyril Jaquier, 2005-2016 Yaroslav Halchenko,
 __license__ = "GPL-v2+"
 
 version = "0.10.4.dev1"
+
+def normVersion():
+  """ Returns fail2ban version in normalized machine-readable format"""
+  return version.replace('.fix', '').replace('.dev', '.')