diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 0820131c..6dc04901 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 
 |build| |cov|
 
+:Release: |release|
+:Date: |today|
+
 Ready to use analysis and buildings blocks to write parallel analysis algorithms
 using MDAnalysis_ with dask_.
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 809969ba..ca2fd603 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -58,17 +58,17 @@
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'PMDA'
 author = u'Max Linke, Mahzad Khoshlessan, Richard J Gowers, Oliver Beckstein'
-copyright = u'2017, ' + author
+copyright = u'2018, ' + author
 
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = u'0.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.1'
+release = __import__('pmda').__version__
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = ".".join(release.split('.')[:2])
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.