diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a27379..6df8add 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ qdl-ramdump
 ks
 compile_commands.json
 .cache
+
+.vscode/settings.json
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4724858..b84b38c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 QDL := qdl
 RAMDUMP := qdl-ramdump
 
-CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall -g `pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0 libusb-1.0`
+BUILD_TIME := $(shell date +"%c")
+VERSION := "1.0.0"
+
+CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall -g `pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0 libusb-1.0` -D "BUILD_TIME=\"$(BUILD_TIME)\"" -D "VERSION=\"$(VERSION)\""
 LDFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs libxml-2.0 libusb-1.0`
 prefix := /usr/local
 
diff --git a/firehose.c b/firehose.c
index da3ed31..a20140c 100644
--- a/firehose.c
+++ b/firehose.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int firehose_write(struct qdl_device *qdl, xmlDoc *doc)
 	return ret < 0 ? -saved_errno : 0;
 }
 
-static size_t max_payload_size = 1048576;
+static size_t max_payload_size = 1024*1024;
 
 /**
  * firehose_configure_response_parser() - parse a configure response
diff --git a/qdl.c b/qdl.c
index e15dcbd..e5ebef0 100644
--- a/qdl.c
+++ b/qdl.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int opt;
 	bool qdl_finalize_provisioning = false;
 
+	printf("QDL version %s %s\n", VERSION, BUILD_TIME);
 
 	static struct option options[] = {
 		{"debug", no_argument, 0, 'd'},