diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ddf299b..5fc22a69 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Control Panel:
 
 * The users page now documents that passwords should only have ASCII characters to prevent character encoding mismaches between clients and the server.
 * The users page no longer shows user mailbox sizes because this was extremely slow for very large mailboxes.
+* The Mail-in-a-Box version is now shown in the system status checks even when the new-version check is disabled.
 
 v0.29 (October 25, 2018)
 ------------------------
diff --git a/management/status_checks.py b/management/status_checks.py
index 3b0026d9..86cfe33f 100755
--- a/management/status_checks.py
+++ b/management/status_checks.py
@@ -795,14 +795,14 @@ def get_latest_miab_version():
 def check_miab_version(env, output):
 	config = load_settings(env)
 
-	if config.get("privacy", True):
-		output.print_warning("Mail-in-a-Box version check disabled by privacy setting.")
-	else:
-		try:
-			this_ver = what_version_is_this(env)
-		except:
-			this_ver = "Unknown"
+	try:
+		this_ver = what_version_is_this(env)
+	except:
+		this_ver = "Unknown"
 
+	if config.get("privacy", True):
+		output.print_warning("You are running version Mail-in-a-Box %s. Mail-in-a-Box version check disabled by privacy setting." % this_ver)
+	else:
 		latest_ver = get_latest_miab_version()
 
 		if this_ver == latest_ver: