diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 4c76dbf1..716ad88e 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ Spring Cloud Build Docs comes with a set of attributes for asciidoctor that you
 	<index-link>${index-link}</index-link>
 
 	<!-- Spring Cloud specific -->
+	<!-- for backward compatibility -->
+	<spring-cloud-version>${project.version}</spring-cloud-version>
 	<project-version>${project.version}</project-version>
 	<github-tag>${github-tag}</github-tag>
 	<version-type>${version-type}</version-type>