diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 703e881..a2eb4ca 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Changes in version 1.14.2
   * plugins/* - Davide Madrisan:
   Do not load a library already loaded by another autospec module.
 
++ update
+  * autospec - Davide Madrisan:
+  Send the debug message showing autospec version as soon as possible.
+
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 Changes in version 1.14.1 - _TO*Hacklab release
diff --git a/autospec.in b/autospec.in
index 54670b2..899fed4 100644
--- a/autospec.in
+++ b/autospec.in
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ for arg in $@; do
    esac
 done
 
+notify.debug "[${me[0]}, "$"version"" ${me[1]}]"
+
 case "$(( $pck_update + $spec_create + $pck_extract + $config_getvar ))" in
    0) [ "$print_help" = "1" ] && autospec.usage 0
       if [ "$print_version" = "1" ]; then
@@ -133,8 +135,6 @@ esac
 [ "$logging" = "1" ] && let "colorize = 0"
 [ "$colorize" = "1" ] && notify.enable_colors || notify.disable_colors
 
-notify.debug "[${me[0]}, "$"version"" ${me[1]}]"
-
 # checking for errors in the configuration file
 [ "$config_getvar" = 1 ] || config.integrity