diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h.cmake b/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h.cmake
--- a/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h.cmake
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h.cmake
@@ -60,9 +60,6 @@
 /* Define if we have sys/resource.h (rlimits) */
 #cmakedefine CLANG_HAVE_RLIMITS ${CLANG_HAVE_RLIMITS}
 
-/* The LLVM product name and version */
-#define BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING "${BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING}"
-
 /* Linker version detected at compile time. */
 #cmakedefine HOST_LINK_VERSION "${HOST_LINK_VERSION}"
 
diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInstance.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInstance.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInstance.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInstance.cpp
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include "clang/Serialization/InMemoryModuleCache.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/ScopeExit.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
+#include "llvm/Config/llvm-config.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/BuryPointer.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/CrashRecoveryContext.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Errc.h"
@@ -1023,9 +1024,9 @@
 
   // Validate/process some options.
   if (getHeaderSearchOpts().Verbose)
-    OS << "clang -cc1 version " CLANG_VERSION_STRING
-       << " based upon " << BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING
-       << " default target " << llvm::sys::getDefaultTargetTriple() << "\n";
+    OS << "clang -cc1 version " CLANG_VERSION_STRING << " based upon LLVM "
+       << LLVM_VERSION_STRING << " default target "
+       << llvm::sys::getDefaultTargetTriple() << "\n";
 
   if (getCodeGenOpts().TimePasses)
     createFrontendTimer();
diff --git a/llvm/utils/gn/secondary/clang/include/clang/Config/BUILD.gn b/llvm/utils/gn/secondary/clang/include/clang/Config/BUILD.gn
--- a/llvm/utils/gn/secondary/clang/include/clang/Config/BUILD.gn
+++ b/llvm/utils/gn/secondary/clang/include/clang/Config/BUILD.gn
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
     "CLANG_SPAWN_CC1=",
     "DEFAULT_SYSROOT=",
     "GCC_INSTALL_PREFIX=",
-    "BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING=LLVM ${llvm_version}git",
     "ENABLE_LINKER_BUILD_ID=",
     "ENABLE_X86_RELAX_RELOCATIONS=1",
     "CLANG_ENABLE_OBJC_REWRITER=1",  # FIXME: flag?
diff --git a/llvm/utils/release/bump-version.py b/llvm/utils/release/bump-version.py
--- a/llvm/utils/release/bump-version.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/release/bump-version.py
@@ -121,13 +121,6 @@
                 )
                 if nline != line:
                     break
-        # Match the BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING in clang/config.h
-        elif "BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING" in line:
-            nline = re.sub(
-                r'#define BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING "LLVM ([0-9\.rcgit-]+)"',
-                f'#define BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING "LLVM {self.version_str()}"',
-                line,
-            )
 
         return nline
 
diff --git a/utils/bazel/llvm-project-overlay/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h b/utils/bazel/llvm-project-overlay/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h
--- a/utils/bazel/llvm-project-overlay/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h
+++ b/utils/bazel/llvm-project-overlay/clang/include/clang/Config/config.h
@@ -74,9 +74,6 @@
 /* Define if we have sys/resource.h (rlimits) */
 /* CLANG_HAVE_RLIMITS defined conditionally below */
 
-/* The LLVM product name and version */
-#define BACKEND_PACKAGE_STRING "LLVM 16.0.0git"
-
 /* Linker version detected at compile time. */
 /* #undef HOST_LINK_VERSION */