> Artur Malabarba wrote:
> On the Emacs 24.4 distribution I have installed here, the erc library
> has `;;; Version: 5.3' on the header, but on the latest emacs master
> branch the erc library has no version header.

> Anyone know why that is? Is that a commit on emacs-24.4 that wasn't
> merged to master? Or was erc's version number specifically removed?

ERC Version has been changed to follow emacs versioning.
It is part of emacs and does not need separate versioning.
There are indeed some changes in emacs-24 branch that
need to be merged into master