diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.cpp b/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.cpp
index 660f40b107d..ee30124eb54 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 **
 ****************************************************************************/
 
-#include <QtCore/private/qversionnumber_p.h>
+#include <QtCore/qversionnumber.h>
 #include <QtCore/qhash.h>
 #include <QtCore/private/qlocale_tools_p.h>
 #include <QtCore/qcollator.h>
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 /*!
     \class QVersionNumber
     \inmodule QtCore
-    \internal
     \since 5.4
     \brief The QVersionNumber class contains a version number with an arbitrary
            number of segments.
diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber_p.h b/src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.h
similarity index 100%
rename from src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber_p.h
rename to src/corelib/tools/qversionnumber.h
diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/tools.pri b/src/corelib/tools/tools.pri
index 60b53a3d8a3..c43fd761d89 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/tools.pri
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/tools.pri
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ HEADERS +=  \
         tools/qunicodetools_p.h \
         tools/qvarlengtharray.h \
         tools/qvector.h \
-        tools/qversionnumber_p.h
+        tools/qversionnumber.h
 
 
 SOURCES += \
diff --git a/src/gui/opengl/qopengl_p.h b/src/gui/opengl/qopengl_p.h
index 31a083d96f0..6b66a3ba573 100644
--- a/src/gui/opengl/qopengl_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/opengl/qopengl_p.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 #include <private/qopenglcontext_p.h>
 #include <QtCore/qset.h>
 #include <QtCore/qstring.h>
-#include <private/qversionnumber_p.h>
+#include <QtCore/qversionnumber.h>
 
 QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 
diff --git a/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowsopengltester.h b/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowsopengltester.h
index 748885542d5..3cd8bf4d4be 100644
--- a/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowsopengltester.h
+++ b/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowsopengltester.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
 #include <QtCore/QByteArray>
 #include <QtCore/QFlags>
-#include <private/qversionnumber_p.h>
+#include <QtCore/qversionnumber.h>
 
 QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qversionnumber/tst_qversionnumber.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qversionnumber/tst_qversionnumber.cpp
index 4202b87b2d6..0b8b63a1e89 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qversionnumber/tst_qversionnumber.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qversionnumber/tst_qversionnumber.cpp
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 ****************************************************************************/
 
 #include <QtTest/QtTest>
-#include <private/qversionnumber_p.h>
+#include <QtCore/qversionnumber.h>
 
 class tst_QVersionNumber : public QObject
 {