diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9355491..8b94869 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Changelog
 -----
 
 - Restore compatability with <8.0.0 configuration files (with deprecation warnings)
-- Move `parsedmarc.__version__` to `parsedmarc.meta.__version__`
 - Set default `reports_folder` to `Inbox` (rather than `INBOX`) when `msgraph` is configured
 - Mark a message as read when fetching a message from Microsoft Graph
 
diff --git a/parsedmarc/__init__.py b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
index 72b90a9..5e4cbfa 100644
--- a/parsedmarc/__init__.py
+++ b/parsedmarc/__init__.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from parsedmarc.utils import is_outlook_msg, convert_outlook_msg
 from parsedmarc.utils import parse_email
 from parsedmarc.utils import timestamp_to_human, human_timestamp_to_datetime
 
-from parsedmarc.meta import __version__
+__version__ = "8.1.0"
 
 formatter = logging.Formatter(
     fmt='%(levelname)8s:%(filename)s:%(lineno)d:%(message)s',
diff --git a/parsedmarc/meta.py b/parsedmarc/meta.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 70dab03..0000000
--- a/parsedmarc/meta.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-__version__ = "8.1.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f8ff28d..f5cabb1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 from codecs import open
 from os import path
 
-from parsedmarc.meta import __version__
+__version__ = "8.1.0"
 
 description = "A Python package and CLI for parsing aggregate and " \
               "forensic DMARC reports"