diff --git a/kubespawner/__init__.py b/kubespawner/__init__.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/kubespawner/__init__.py
+++ b/kubespawner/__init__.py
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ in your `jupyterhub_config.py` file.
 # Users can simply import kubespawner.KubeSpawner in their applications
 # instead of the more verbose import kubespawner.spawner.KubeSpawner.
 
-from kubespawner.spawner import KubeSpawner
+from kubespawner.spawner import KubeSpawner, __version__
 
-__all__ = [KubeSpawner]
+__all__ = [KubeSpawner, __version__]
Expose __version__ in kubespawner module

I ended up wanting this to be available to the _log_cls helper function
in JupyterHub.

ref: <URL>