diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5b930ab4..3a7fc002 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import sys
 
-sys.path.append('..')
 sys.path.append('.')
-import mitogen
-VERSION = '.'.join(str(part) for part in mitogen.__version__)
+
+VERSION = '0.3.4'
 
 author = u'Network Genomics'
 copyright = u'2021, the Mitogen authors'