diff --git a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/root.py b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/root.py
index 2f9c6861f2bc..298dab3816e0 100644
--- a/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/root.py
+++ b/nova/api/openstack/placement/handlers/root.py
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ def home(req):
         'id': 'v%s' % min_version,
         'max_version': max_version,
         'min_version': min_version,
+        # for now there is only ever one version, so it must be CURRENT
+        'status': 'CURRENT',
+        'links': [{
+            # Point back to this same URL as the root of this version.
+            # NOTE(cdent): We explicitly want this to be a relative-URL
+            # representation of "this same URL", otherwise placement needs
+            # to keep track of proxy addresses and the like, which we have
+            # avoided thus far, in order to construct full URLs. Placement
+            # is much easier to scale if we never track that stuff.
+            'rel': 'self',
+            'href': '',
+        }],
     }
     version_json = jsonutils.dumps({'versions': [version_data]})
     req.response.body = encodeutils.to_utf8(version_json)
diff --git a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/gabbits/microversion.yaml b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/gabbits/microversion.yaml
index 83df248c1e57..462dd7ec0c6a 100644
--- a/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/gabbits/microversion.yaml
+++ b/nova/tests/functional/api/openstack/placement/gabbits/microversion.yaml
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ tests:
       $.versions[0].max_version: /^\d+\.\d+$/
       $.versions[0].min_version: /^\d+\.\d+$/
       $.versions[0].id: v1.0
+      $.versions[0].status: CURRENT
+      $.versions[0].links[?rel = 'self'].href: ''
 
 - name: unavailable microversion raises 406
   GET: /
diff --git a/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml b/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
index a6cf8607d6d1..22f0f54abcae 100644
--- a/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
+++ b/placement-api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
@@ -538,6 +538,12 @@ version_id:
   required: true
   description: >
     A common name for the version being described. Informative only.
+version_links:
+  type: array
+  in: body
+  required: true
+  description: >
+    A list of links related to and describing this version.
 version_max:
   type: string
   in: body
@@ -550,6 +556,13 @@ version_min:
   required: true
   description: >
     The minimum microversion that is supported.
+version_status:
+  type: string
+  in: body
+  required: true
+  description: >
+    The status of the version being described. With placement this is
+    "CURRENT".
 versions:
   type: array
   in: body
diff --git a/placement-api-ref/source/root.inc b/placement-api-ref/source/root.inc
index f27edf40c1fb..92532b051137 100644
--- a/placement-api-ref/source/root.inc
+++ b/placement-api-ref/source/root.inc
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Response
   - id: version_id
   - min_version: version_min
   - max_version: version_max
+  - status: version_status
+  - links: version_links
 
 Response Example
 ----------------
diff --git a/placement-api-ref/source/samples/root/get-root.json b/placement-api-ref/source/samples/root/get-root.json
index bdb92c3decea..513aceefac35 100644
--- a/placement-api-ref/source/samples/root/get-root.json
+++ b/placement-api-ref/source/samples/root/get-root.json
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@
         {
             "min_version" : "1.0",
             "id" : "v1.0",
-            "max_version" : "1.2"
+            "max_version" : "1.28",
+            "status": "CURRENT",
+            "links": [
+                {
+                    "href": "",
+                    "rel": "self"
+                }
+            ]
         }
     ]
 }