Feature request: display of truncated Conky version

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Conky handily provides ${conky_version} (which one can and probably should run via ${no_update ${conky_version}}).

Yet, if one has compiled Conky oneself, the version string might be something like: '1.21.7-pre-788ac88c'. That is rather long and often one will not need all that information. So how about an option to display, merely (and taking that same example string) '1.21.8-pre'?

I think that a shorter string used to be what Conky displayed. If so, can we have the old version back, at least as an option (/as a separate conky 'object')?