diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4b6f03fea..43ca1bc56 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -537,7 +537,11 @@ if( CALAMARES_VERSION_RC )
     set( CALAMARES_VERSION ${CALAMARES_VERSION}rc${CALAMARES_VERSION_RC} )
 endif()
 
-# additional info for non-release builds
+# Additional info for non-release builds. The "extended" version information
+# with date and git information (commit, dirty status) is used only
+# by CalamaresVersionX.h, which is included by consumers that need a full
+# version number with all that information; normal consumers can include
+# CalamaresVersion.h with more stable numbers.
 if( NOT BUILD_RELEASE AND EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.git/" )
     include( CMakeDateStamp )
     set( CALAMARES_VERSION_DATE "${CMAKE_DATESTAMP_YEAR}${CMAKE_DATESTAMP_MONTH}${CMAKE_DATESTAMP_DAY}" )
diff --git a/CMakeModules/CalamaresAddTranslations.cmake b/CMakeModules/CalamaresAddTranslations.cmake
index bb15fb122..5015301d2 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/CalamaresAddTranslations.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/CalamaresAddTranslations.cmake
@@ -22,50 +22,15 @@
 
 include( CMakeParseArguments )
 
-if( NOT _rcc_version_support_checked )
-    set( _rcc_version_support_checked TRUE )
-
-    # Extract the executable name
-    get_property( _rcc_executable
-        TARGET ${Qt5Core_RCC_EXECUTABLE}
-        PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION
-    )
-    if( NOT _rcc_executable )
-        # Weird, probably now uses Qt5::rcc which is wrong too
-        set( _rcc_executable ${Qt5Core_RCC_EXECUTABLE} )
-    endif()
-
-    # Try an empty RCC file with explicit format-version
-    execute_process(
-        COMMAND echo "<RCC version='1.0'></RCC>"
-        COMMAND ${Qt5Core_RCC_EXECUTABLE} --format-version 1 --list -
-        RESULT_VARIABLE _rcc_version_rv
-        ERROR_VARIABLE _rcc_version_dump
-    )
-    if ( _rcc_version_rv EQUAL 0 )
-        # Supported: force to the reproducible version
-        set( _rcc_version_support --format-version 1 )
-    else()
-        # Older Qt versions (5.7, 5.8) don't support setting the
-        # rcc format-version, so won't be reproducible if they
-        # default to version 2.
-        set( _rcc_version_support "" )
-    endif()
-    unset( _rcc_version_rv )
-    unset( _rcc_version_dump )
-endif()
-
-
 # Internal macro for adding the C++ / Qt translations to the
 # build and install tree. Should be called only once, from
 # src/calamares/CMakeLists.txt.
 macro(add_calamares_translations language)
     list( APPEND CALAMARES_LANGUAGES ${ARGV} )
 
-    set( calamares_i18n_qrc_content "<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version=\"1.0\">\n" )
+    set( calamares_i18n_qrc_content "" )
 
     # calamares and qt language files
-    set( calamares_i18n_qrc_content "${calamares_i18n_qrc_content}<qresource prefix=\"/lang\">\n" )
     foreach( lang ${CALAMARES_LANGUAGES} )
         foreach( tlsource "calamares_${lang}" "tz_${lang}" )
             if( EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lang/${tlsource}.ts" )
@@ -75,31 +40,19 @@ macro(add_calamares_translations language)
         endforeach()
     endforeach()
 
-    set( calamares_i18n_qrc_content "${calamares_i18n_qrc_content}</qresource>\n" )
-    set( calamares_i18n_qrc_content "${calamares_i18n_qrc_content}</RCC>\n" )
-
-    file( WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lang/calamares_i18n.qrc "${calamares_i18n_qrc_content}" )
-
-    qt5_add_translation(QM_FILES ${TS_FILES})
-
-    ## HACK HACK HACK - around rcc limitations to allow out of source-tree building
     set( trans_file calamares_i18n )
-    set( trans_srcfile ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lang/${trans_file}.qrc )
     set( trans_infile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${trans_file}.qrc )
     set( trans_outfile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/qrc_${trans_file}.cxx )
 
-    # Copy the QRC file to the output directory
-    add_custom_command(
-        OUTPUT ${trans_infile}
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${trans_srcfile} ${trans_infile}
-        MAIN_DEPENDENCY ${trans_srcfile}
-    )
+    configure_file( ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lang/calamares_i18n.qrc.in ${trans_infile} @ONLY )
+
+    qt5_add_translation(QM_FILES ${TS_FILES})
 
     # Run the resource compiler (rcc_options should already be set)
     add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT ${trans_outfile}
         COMMAND "${Qt5Core_RCC_EXECUTABLE}"
-        ARGS ${rcc_options} ${_rcc_version_support} -name ${trans_file} -o ${trans_outfile} ${trans_infile}
+        ARGS ${rcc_options} --format-version 1 -name ${trans_file} -o ${trans_outfile} ${trans_infile}
         MAIN_DEPENDENCY ${trans_infile}
         DEPENDS ${QM_FILES}
     )
diff --git a/lang/calamares_i18n.qrc.in b/lang/calamares_i18n.qrc.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f0ac1604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/calamares_i18n.qrc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version="1.0">
+<qresource prefix="/lang">
+@calamares_i18n_qrc_content@
+</qresource>
+</RCC>
diff --git a/src/calamares/CMakeLists.txt b/src/calamares/CMakeLists.txt
index b632567b8..ff91904e2 100644
--- a/src/calamares/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/calamares/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -34,9 +34,8 @@ include_directories(
 # Translations
 include( CalamaresAddTranslations )
 add_calamares_translations( ${CALAMARES_TRANSLATION_LANGUAGES} )
-qt5_add_resources( calamaresRc calamares.qrc )
 
-add_executable( calamares_bin ${calamaresSources} ${calamaresRc} ${trans_outfile} )
+add_executable( calamares_bin ${calamaresSources} calamares.qrc ${trans_outfile} )
 target_include_directories( calamares_bin PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} )
 set_target_properties(calamares_bin
     PROPERTIES
@@ -45,6 +44,7 @@ set_target_properties(calamares_bin
 )
 calamares_automoc( calamares_bin )
 calamares_autouic( calamares_bin )
+calamares_autorcc( calamares_bin )
 
 target_link_libraries( calamares_bin
     PRIVATE
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libcalamares/CMakeLists.txt
index 56bacb32a..8e209f8a3 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libcalamares/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ include_directories( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} )
 
 configure_file( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CalamaresConfig.h.in
                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/CalamaresConfig.h )
-configure_file( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../calamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
+configure_file( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CalamaresVersion.h.in
                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/CalamaresVersion.h )
+configure_file( ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CalamaresVersionX.h.in
+                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/CalamaresVersionX.h )
 
 set( OPTIONAL_PRIVATE_LIBRARIES "" )
 set( OPTIONAL_PUBLIC_LIBRARIES "" )
diff --git a/src/calamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in b/src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
similarity index 92%
rename from src/calamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
rename to src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
index 4ac7ee1d1..54a44888a 100644
--- a/src/calamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
+++ b/src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersion.h.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #cmakedefine CALAMARES_ORGANIZATION_NAME "${CALAMARES_ORGANIZATION_NAME}"
 #cmakedefine CALAMARES_ORGANIZATION_DOMAIN "${CALAMARES_ORGANIZATION_DOMAIN}"
 #cmakedefine CALAMARES_APPLICATION_NAME "${CALAMARES_APPLICATION_NAME}"
-#cmakedefine CALAMARES_VERSION "${CALAMARES_VERSION}"
+#cmakedefine CALAMARES_VERSION "${CALAMARES_VERSION_SHORT}"
 #cmakedefine CALAMARES_VERSION_SHORT "${CALAMARES_VERSION_SHORT}"
 
 #cmakedefine CALAMARES_VERSION_MAJOR "${CALAMARES_VERSION_MAJOR}"
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersionX.h.in b/src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersionX.h.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..75b124c11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libcalamares/CalamaresVersionX.h.in
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Same as CalamaresVersion.h, but with a full-git-extended VERSION
+// rather than the short (vM.m.p) semantic version.
+#ifndef CALAMARES_VERSION_H
+
+// On purpose, do not define the guard, but let CalamaresVersion.h do it
+// #define CALAMARES_VERSION_H
+
+#include "CalamaresVersion.h"
+
+#undef CALAMARES_VERSION
+#cmakedefine CALAMARES_VERSION "${CALAMARES_VERSION}"
+
+#endif  // CALAMARES_VERSION_H
diff --git a/src/libcalamares/utils/Logger.cpp b/src/libcalamares/utils/Logger.cpp
index 72885d53f..5a2149f44 100644
--- a/src/libcalamares/utils/Logger.cpp
+++ b/src/libcalamares/utils/Logger.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010-2011 Christian Muehlhaeuser <muesli@tomahawk-player.org>
  *   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Teo Mrnjavac <teo@kde.org>
  *   SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
+ *   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
  *
  *
  *   Calamares is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -18,15 +19,12 @@
  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  *   along with Calamares. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  *
- *   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
- *   License-Filename: LICENSE
- *
  */
 
 #include "Logger.h"
 
-#include <fstream>
-#include <iostream>
+#include "CalamaresVersionX.h"
+#include "utils/Dirs.h"
 
 #include <QCoreApplication>
 #include <QDir>
@@ -35,10 +33,10 @@
 #include <QTime>
 #include <QVariant>
 
-#include "CalamaresVersion.h"
-#include "utils/Dirs.h"
+#include <fstream>
+#include <iostream>
 
-#define LOGFILE_SIZE 1024 * 256
+static constexpr const int LOGFILE_SIZE = 1024 * 256;
 
 static std::ofstream logfile;
 static unsigned int s_threshold =