diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ea3662b8e..fddbfdd41 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Installation instructions for Sudo 1.8
-======================================
+Sudo Installation instructions
+==============================
 
 Sudo uses a `configure' script to probe the capabilities and type
 of the system in question.  In this release, `configure' takes many
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3ed6c5b78..919c74a65 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-This is Sudo version 1.8.0
-
 The sudo philosophy
 ===================
 Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges