diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4317cb8e76e1cda8030be42e1bb3ce8806865e25..14391c7f460f468b6d0bddf8755de83d492f4193 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 * * Tests that the correct version is loaded
 * * Tests that elementary patching/building works as expected
 * Added consistency check between e3 environment variables and path to `iocsh.bash`. `iocsh.bash` will abort if these are not consistent.
+* Add e3 version infomation to the shell prompt
 
 ### Bugfixes
 * `iocsh.bash --help` (and variants) no longer loads tries to load `env.sh`.
diff --git a/require-ess/tools/setE3Env.bash b/require-ess/tools/setE3Env.bash
index dea3f30df14af1863eff6d93cfb05610aad8a4af..154f3d1f53e924381bf206f6d7dcf8514a7c791b 100644
--- a/require-ess/tools/setE3Env.bash
+++ b/require-ess/tools/setE3Env.bash
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@
 #
 #
 
+if [[ "$0" == "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" ]]; then
+  echo
+  echo "##################################################"
+  echo "$0 is NOT properly sourced !"
+  echo "##################################################"
+  echo
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # the following function drop_from_path was copied from
 # the ROOT build system in ${ROOTSYS}/bin/, and modified
 # a little to return its result
@@ -336,3 +345,20 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 source "${SRC_PATH}"/iocsh_complete.bash
 
 print_env "$1"
+
+BASE_version="${EPICS_BASE##*/base-}"
+E3_ENV_INFO="(${BASE_version}-${E3_REQUIRE_VERSION})"
+NEW_E3_PS="${E3_ENV_INFO}\[\033[33m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
+
+if [ -z "$E3_ENV_ON" ]; then
+  if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
+    export E3_ENV_ON="ON"
+    export PS1="${NEW_E3_PS}"
+  else
+    export E3_ENV_ON="ON"
+    export PS1="${E3_ENV_INFO}${PS1}"
+  fi
+else
+  PS_TMP=${PS1#*\)}
+  export PS1="${E3_ENV_INFO}${PS_TMP}"
+fi