diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 8fde81e9b6..b8415c6579 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import subprocess
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
@@ -18,10 +19,10 @@ author = u'the coreboot project'
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = u'4.7'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'4.7' # TODO: use 'git describe'
+release = subprocess.check_output(('git', 'describe'))
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = release.split("-")[0]
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.