diff --git a/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinHandler.java b/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinHandler.java
index 6eaa0c5752..e7df396ec2 100644
--- a/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinHandler.java
+++ b/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinHandler.java
@@ -22,4 +22,8 @@ public class KotlinHandler extends AbstractPmdLanguageVersionHandler {
     public Parser getParser() {
         return new PmdKotlinParser();
     }
+
+    public String getKotlinRelease() {
+        return kotlinRelease;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinLanguageModule.java b/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinLanguageModule.java
index e61608b108..9a26caf4e0 100644
--- a/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinLanguageModule.java
+++ b/pmd-kotlin/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/kotlin/KotlinLanguageModule.java
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ public class KotlinLanguageModule extends BaseLanguageModule {
      */
     public KotlinLanguageModule() {
         super(NAME, null, TERSE_NAME, "kt", "ktm");
-        addVersion("", new KotlinHandler("1.3"));
-        addVersion("", new KotlinHandler("1.4"));
-        addDefaultVersion("", new KotlinHandler("1.5"));
+        addVersion("1.3", new KotlinHandler("1.3"));
+        addVersion("1.4", new KotlinHandler("1.4"));
+        addDefaultVersion("1.5", new KotlinHandler("1.5"));
     }
 }