diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 9614ce5..9cd8ac8 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 import subprocess
 from sphinx.ext.apidoc import main
 
+import pyiron_snippets
+
 # 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.
@@ -75,14 +77,8 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version_full = subprocess.check_output(
-    "python -c 'import versioneer; print(versioneer.get_version())'",
-    cwd=os.path.join(os.path.curdir, '..'),
-    universal_newlines=True,
-    shell=True
-)
-version_full = version_full.split('\n')[0]
-version = '.'.join(version_full.split('.')[0:2])
+version_full = pyiron_snippets.__version__
+version = '.'.join(version_full.split('.')[:2])
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = version_full
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f7f6562..fa82471 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,19 +37,6 @@ Homepage = "https://github.com/pyiron/pyiron_snippets"
 Documentation = "https://pyiron-snippets.readthedocs.io"
 Repository = "https://github.com/pyiron/pyiron_snippets"
 
-[tool.versioneer]
-VCS = "git"
-style = "pep440-pre"
-versionfile_source = "pyiron_snippets/_version.py"
-parentdir_prefix = "pyiron_snippets"
-tag_prefix = "pyiron_snippets-"
-
-[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
-include = [ "pyiron_snippets*",]
-
-[tool.setuptools.dynamic.version]
-attr = "pyiron_snippets.__version__"
-
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 tests = [
     "cloudpickle==3.1.1",