diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index ef2d51e..45ebae7 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 sys.path.append(os.path.relpath(os.path.abspath('.')))
 import extract_rst
 
+sys.path.append(os.path.relpath(os.path.abspath('..')))
+from autocmake import __version__ as _version
+
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
@@ -59,10 +62,10 @@
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.0.0-alpha-x'
+release = _version
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '.'.join(release.split('.')[0:2])
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.