diff --git a/include/qb/qbconfig.h.in b/include/qb/qbconfig.h.in
index c1852e12e..9094dc7d9 100644
--- a/include/qb/qbconfig.h.in
+++ b/include/qb/qbconfig.h.in
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@
 /* Enabling code using __attribute__((section)) */
 #undef QB_HAVE_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION
 
-/* versioning info: MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, and REST components */
+/* versioning info: MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, and REST components;
+   note that static compile-time info is not that useful as consulting
+   the respectively named members of qb_version struct constant under
+   @c qb_ver identifier (or @c qb_ver_str equivalent of the local
+   upper-cased value) directly from libqb in run-time (see qbutil.h),
+   but that was only introduced after v1.0.2 */
 #undef QB_VER_MAJOR
 #undef QB_VER_MINOR
 #undef QB_VER_MICRO
diff --git a/include/qb/qblog.h b/include/qb/qblog.h
index 0af7d62ed..1cb63194d 100644
--- a/include/qb/qblog.h
+++ b/include/qb/qblog.h
@@ -299,9 +299,11 @@ extern struct qb_log_callsite QB_ATTR_SECTION_STOP[];
 #define QB_NONAPI_LOG_INIT_DATA_EXTRA_(name)				\
     { Dl_info work_dli;							\
     /* libqb sanity (locating libqb by it's relatively unique		\
-       -- and currently only such per-linkage global one --		\
-       non-functional symbol, due to possible confusion otherwise) */	\
-    if (dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "facilitynames"), &work_dli)		\
+       non-functional symbols -- the two are mutually exclusive, the	\
+       ordinarily latter was introduced by accident, the former is	\
+       intentional -- due to possible confusion otherwise) */		\
+    if ((dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "qb_ver_str"), &work_dli)		\
+         || dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "facilitynames"), &work_dli))	\
         && (work_handle = dlopen(work_dli.dli_fname,			\
                                  RTLD_LOCAL|RTLD_LAZY)) != NULL) {	\
         work_s1 = (struct qb_log_callsite *)				\
diff --git a/include/qb/qbutil.h b/include/qb/qbutil.h
index bfce349fc..b02ce8db7 100644
--- a/include/qb/qbutil.h
+++ b/include/qb/qbutil.h
@@ -289,6 +289,17 @@ uint64_t
 qb_util_stopwatch_time_split_get(qb_util_stopwatch_t *sw,
 				 uint32_t receint, uint32_t older);
 
+/** Structured library versioning info */
+extern const struct qb_version {
+	uint8_t major; /**< Major component */
+	uint8_t minor; /**< Minor component */
+	uint8_t micro; /**< Micro component */
+	const char *rest; /**< Rest (pertaining the mid-release-point) */
+} qb_ver;
+
+/** Complete library versioning info as a string */
+extern const char *const qb_ver_str;
+
 /* *INDENT-OFF* */
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index 1572cff5f..6ca6b1518 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS             = -I$(top_builddir)/include -I$(top_srcdir)/include
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES		= libqb.la
 
-libqb_la_LDFLAGS	= -version-info 18:2:18
+libqb_la_LDFLAGS	= -version-info 19:0:19
 
 source_to_lint		= util.c hdb.c ringbuffer.c ringbuffer_helper.c \
 			  array.c loop.c loop_poll.c loop_job.c \
diff --git a/lib/log.c b/lib/log.c
index bcaed5619..4f522640e 100644
--- a/lib/log.c
+++ b/lib/log.c
@@ -892,10 +892,12 @@ qb_log_init(const char *name, int32_t facility, uint8_t priority)
 #ifdef QB_HAVE_ATTRIBUTE_SECTION
 	/* sanity check that target chain supplied QB_ATTR_SECTION_ST{ART,OP}
 	   symbols and hence the local references to them are not referencing
-	   the proper libqb's ones (locating libqb-self by it's relatively
-	   unique -- and currently only such per-linkage global one --
-	   non-functional symbol, due to possible confusion otherwise) */
-	if (dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "facilitynames"), &work_dli)
+	   the proper libqb's ones (locating libqb by it's relatively unique
+	   non-functional symbols -- the two are mutually exclusive, the
+	   ordinarily latter was introduced by accident, the former is
+	   intentional -- due to possible confusion otherwise) */
+	if ((dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "qb_ver_str"), &work_dli)
+	     || dladdr(dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "facilitynames"), &work_dli))
 	    && (work_handle = dlopen(work_dli.dli_fname,
 	                             RTLD_LOCAL|RTLD_LAZY)) != NULL) {
 		work_s1 = (struct qb_log_callsite *)
diff --git a/lib/log_format.c b/lib/log_format.c
index 712f44756..e7e1f40bf 100644
--- a/lib/log_format.c
+++ b/lib/log_format.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static struct syslog_names prioritynames[] = {
 	{NULL, -1}
 };
 
-struct syslog_names facilitynames[] = {
+static struct syslog_names facilitynames[] = {
 	{"auth", LOG_AUTH},
 #if defined(LOG_AUTHPRIV)
 	{"authpriv", LOG_AUTHPRIV},
diff --git a/lib/util.c b/lib/util.c
index 6181a2594..a510bd1c9 100644
--- a/lib/util.c
+++ b/lib/util.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "util_int.h"
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <qb/qbconfig.h>
 #include <qb/qbdefs.h>
 #include <qb/qbutil.h>
 
@@ -372,3 +373,12 @@ qb_util_stopwatch_time_split_get(qb_util_stopwatch_t *sw,
 	}
 	return (time_start - time_end) / QB_TIME_NS_IN_USEC;
 }
+
+const struct qb_version qb_ver = {
+	.major = QB_VER_MAJOR,
+	.minor = QB_VER_MINOR,
+	.micro = QB_VER_MICRO,
+	.rest = QB_VER_REST,
+};
+
+const char *const qb_ver_str = QB_VER_STR;
diff --git a/tests/functional/log_client.c b/tests/functional/log_client.c
index c60d6570f..d5d80890f 100644
--- a/tests/functional/log_client.c
+++ b/tests/functional/log_client.c
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ main(int32_t argc, char *argv[])
 	qb_log_tags_stringify_fn_set(my_tags_stringify);
 	qb_log_format_set(QB_LOG_STDERR, "[%5g|%p] %f:%l:%b");
 
+#if 0
+	printf("\n==%s consists of: %d, %d, %d, %s==\n\n", qb_ver_str,
+	       qb_ver.major, qb_ver.minor, qb_ver.micro, qb_ver.rest);
+#endif
+
 #if 0
 	printf("--\n");
 	qb_log_callsites_dump();
diff --git a/tests/functional/log_test_client.err b/tests/functional/log_test_client.err
index 19fca2c86..98df44ca7 100644
--- a/tests/functional/log_test_client.err
+++ b/tests/functional/log_test_client.err
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-[MAIN |debug] ../log_client.c:64:hello
+[MAIN |debug] ../log_client.c:69:hello
 [libqb|error] log_blackbox.c:196:qb_log_blackbox_print_from_file: