diff --git a/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Problem.php b/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Problem.php
index c58d8601b..fa84ae0c0 100644
--- a/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Problem.php
+++ b/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/Problem.php
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ class Problem
             if ($topPackage instanceof RootPackageInterface) {
                 return [
                     "- Root composer.json requires $packageName".self::constraintToText($constraint).', it is ',
-                    'satisfiable by '.self::getPackageList($nextRepoPackages, $isVerbose, $pool, $constraint).' from '.$nextRepo->getRepoName().' but '.$topPackage->getPrettyName().' is the root package and cannot be modified. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.',
+                    'satisfiable by '.self::getPackageList($nextRepoPackages, $isVerbose, $pool, $constraint).' from '.$nextRepo->getRepoName().' but '.$topPackage->getPrettyName().' '.$topPackage->getPrettyVersion().' is the root package and cannot be modified. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.',
                 ];
             }
         }
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/circular-dependency-errors.test b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/circular-dependency-errors.test
index 1bd4518f7..0a9f42544 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/circular-dependency-errors.test
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/circular-dependency-errors.test
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
 
   Problem 1
     - Root composer.json requires requires/root 1.0.0 -> satisfiable by requires/root[1.0.0].
-    - requires/root 1.0.0 requires root/pkg ^1.0 -> satisfiable by root/pkg[1.0.0] from package repo (defining 3 packages) but root/pkg is the root package and cannot be modified. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.
+    - requires/root 1.0.0 requires root/pkg ^1.0 -> satisfiable by root/pkg[1.0.0] from package repo (defining 3 packages) but root/pkg dev-master is the root package and cannot be modified. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.
   Problem 2
     - Root composer.json requires requires/root2 1.0.0 -> satisfiable by requires/root2[1.0.0].
     - requires/root2 1.0.0 requires root/pkg ^2.0 -> found root/pkg[dev-master] but it does not match the constraint. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.