Index: b/sshconnect.c
===================================================================
--- a/sshconnect.c
+++ b/sshconnect.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@
 	snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "SSH-%d.%d-%.100s%s",
 	    compat20 ? PROTOCOL_MAJOR_2 : PROTOCOL_MAJOR_1,
 	    compat20 ? PROTOCOL_MINOR_2 : minor1,
-	    SSH_VERSION, compat20 ? "\r\n" : "\n");
+	    SSH_RELEASE, compat20 ? "\r\n" : "\n");
 	if (roaming_atomicio(vwrite, connection_out, buf, strlen(buf))
 	    != strlen(buf))
 		fatal("write: %.100s", strerror(errno));
Index: b/sshd.c
===================================================================
--- a/sshd.c
+++ b/sshd.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
 		minor = PROTOCOL_MINOR_1;
 	}
 	snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "SSH-%d.%d-%.100s%s", major, minor,
-	    SSH_VERSION, newline);
+	    SSH_RELEASE, newline);
 	server_version_string = xstrdup(buf);
 
 	/* Send our protocol version identification. */
Index: b/version.h
===================================================================
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -3,4 +3,9 @@
 #define SSH_VERSION	"OpenSSH_5.3"
 
 #define SSH_PORTABLE	"p1"
-#define SSH_RELEASE	SSH_VERSION SSH_PORTABLE
+#define SSH_RELEASE_MINIMUM	SSH_VERSION SSH_PORTABLE
+#ifdef SSH_EXTRAVERSION
+#define SSH_RELEASE	SSH_RELEASE_MINIMUM " " SSH_EXTRAVERSION
+#else
+#define SSH_RELEASE	SSH_RELEASE_MINIMUM
+#endif