diff --git a/bin/named/statschannel.c b/bin/named/statschannel.c
index 7b4d507f2e..064a1dc771 100644
--- a/bin/named/statschannel.c
+++ b/bin/named/statschannel.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ generatexml(ns_server_t *server, int *buflen, xmlChar **buf) {
 			ISC_XMLCHAR "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"/bind9.xsl\""));
 	TRY0(xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, ISC_XMLCHAR "statistics"));
 	TRY0(xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, ISC_XMLCHAR "version",
-					 ISC_XMLCHAR "3.0"));
+					 ISC_XMLCHAR "3.1"));
 
 	/* Set common fields for statistics dump */
 	dumparg.type = isc_statsformat_xml;