diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8bf4a3764..cf747f3cc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde 0.6.14 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "sha3 0.1.0",
  "slab 0.1.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "target_info 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "time 0.1.34 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "tiny-keccak 1.0.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "vergen 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -692,6 +693,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-xid 0.0.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "target_info"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "term"
 version = "0.2.14"
diff --git a/util/Cargo.toml b/util/Cargo.toml
index da4f8e34e..62668fcc1 100644
--- a/util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/util/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ igd = "0.4.2"
 ethcore-devtools = { path = "../devtools" }
 libc = "0.2.7"
 vergen = "0.1"
+target_info = "0.1"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/util/src/lib.rs b/util/src/lib.rs
index 1d1a4d9c7..1fba48e00 100644
--- a/util/src/lib.rs
+++ b/util/src/lib.rs
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ extern crate igd;
 extern crate ethcore_devtools as devtools;
 extern crate libc;
 extern crate rustc_version;
+extern crate target_info;
 extern crate vergen;
 
 pub mod standard;
diff --git a/util/src/misc.rs b/util/src/misc.rs
index 22a2bb673..289f1c50c 100644
--- a/util/src/misc.rs
+++ b/util/src/misc.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 use std::fs::File;
 use common::*;
+use target_info::Target;
 use rustc_version;
 
 include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/version.rs"));
@@ -68,5 +69,5 @@ pub fn contents(name: &str) -> Result<Bytes, UtilError> {
 
 /// Get the standard version string for this software.
 pub fn version() -> String {
-	format!("Parity//{}/{}-{}/{}/rustc{}", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), short_sha(), commit_date(), target(), rustc_version::version())
+	format!("Parity//{}-{}-{}/{}-{}-{}/rustc{}", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), short_sha(), commit_date().replace("-", ""), Target::arch(), Target::os(), Target::env(), rustc_version::version())
 }
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