Show latest Git tag on project home page

When checking for a new release, e.g. of GitLab, I usually visit the project page and click on 123 tags next to the number of branches.

It would be great to see the version number of the current release directly on the project home page. In a previous version of GitLab, the content of the VERSION file was shown, if it existed. This was introduced in gitlab-ce@af7e77984c72da8b240f5d7079ca1d30847843f6. As in this repository this file always contains a -pre version in the master branch, I suggest showing the latest Git tag.

The tag to be shown could be the first one from the /tags page.