diff --git a/bin/asdf-builder b/bin/asdf-builder
index d18428476b07be7b5adbe952a834956f724f27c9..ff302ba9ee014e920f59ebabbf851c784a6d5274 100755
--- a/bin/asdf-builder
+++ b/bin/asdf-builder
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@
 
 (defparameter *versioned-files*
   '(("version.lisp-expr" "\"" "\"")
+    ("uiop/version.lisp-expr" "\"" "\"")
     ("asdf.asd" "  :version \"" "\" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version")
     ("header.lisp" "This is ASDF " ": Another System Definition Facility.")
     ("upgrade.lisp" "   (asdf-version \"" "\")")))
diff --git a/uiop/version.lisp-expr b/uiop/version.lisp-expr
deleted file mode 120000
index e3aa9c507391091970a7ff9c98498c90bf5d0d95..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/uiop/version.lisp-expr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../version.lisp-expr
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/uiop/version.lisp-expr b/uiop/version.lisp-expr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..32444778ae74b11f123ebefc6b50dccf5c6c9709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uiop/version.lisp-expr
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+"3.1.4.17"
+