diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index f999e79..ddde83b 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -42,22 +42,20 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 
-with open("../version.py") as f:
-    code = compile(f.read(), "version.py", 'exec')
-    version_dict = {}
-    exec(code, {}, version_dict)
-    # The short X.Y version.
-    version = version_dict['version']
-    # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-    release = version_dict['release']
-
-
-# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
-# for a list of supported languages.
-#
-# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
-# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+# with open("../version.py") as f:
+#     code = compile(f.read(), "version.py", 'exec')
+#     version_dict = {}
+#     exec(code, {}, version_dict)
+#     # The short X.Y version.
+#     version = version_dict['version']
+#     # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+#     release = version_dict['release']
+
+import xmltodict
+with open("../grain.xml") as fx:
+    grain_dict = xmltodict.parse(fx.read())
+version = grain_dict['salt-grain']['version']
+release = version
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5eb152e..0000000
--- a/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.0.1'
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = version + ""
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    print('NIST SOEN PDK v' + version)
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