diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c81ce277..378925fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 - Starting on this release, official binaries for FreeBSD will be available to
   download (#1068).
 - Fix some errors being unintendedly supressed (#1134 by @clintmod).
+- Fix a nil pointer error when `version` is omitted from a Taskfile (#1148,
+  #1149 by @pd93).
 
 ## v3.24.0 - 2023-04-15
 
diff --git a/taskfile/taskfile.go b/taskfile/taskfile.go
index 8fe6931d..344d00eb 100644
--- a/taskfile/taskfile.go
+++ b/taskfile/taskfile.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+
+	"github.com/go-task/task/v3/errors"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ func (tf *Taskfile) UnmarshalYAML(node *yaml.Node) error {
 		if tf.Expansions <= 0 {
 			tf.Expansions = 2
 		}
+		if tf.Version == nil {
+			return errors.New("task: 'version' is required")
+		}
 		if tf.Vars == nil {
 			tf.Vars = &Vars{}
 		}