diff --git a/.github/workflows/issues-closer.yml b/.github/workflows/issues-closer.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 943bae37..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/issues-closer.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-name: Close Added/Fixed Issues
-
-on:
-  release:
-    types: [published]
-
-jobs:
-  close_issues:
-    name: Check Issues / PRs
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Close Issues (added/fixed)
-        uses: actions/stale@v3
-        with:
-          only-issues-labels: 'added,fixed'
-          close-issue-message: >
-            This is now available in the latest release.
-          close-issue-label: 'released'
-          days-before-issue-stale: 0
-          days-before-issue-close: 0
-          ignore-updates: true
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index a5997812..762371f8 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -10,20 +10,24 @@ build:
   os: ubuntu-20.04
   tools:
     python: "3.9"
-  apt_packages:
-    - cmake
-    - ffmpeg
-    - libboost-filesystem-dev
-    - libboost-log-dev
-    - libboost-thread-dev
-  jobs:
-    pre_build:
-      - cmake .
 
-# Include the submodules, required for cmake
-submodules:
-  include: all
-  recursive: true
+## apt packages required packages to run cmake on sunshine, note that additional packages are required
+#  apt_packages:
+#    - cmake
+#    - ffmpeg
+#    - libboost-filesystem-dev
+#    - libboost-log-dev
+#    - libboost-thread-dev
+
+## run cmake
+#  jobs:
+#    pre_build:
+#      - cmake .
+
+## Include the submodules, required for cmake
+#submodules:
+#  include: all
+#  recursive: true
 
 # Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index dcbd6942..862e4f1a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ else()
 endif()
 
 configure_file(version.h.in version.h @ONLY)
-configure_file(docs/source/conf.py.in "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/source/conf.py" @ONLY)
 include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
 
 set(SUNSHINE_TARGET_FILES
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py.in b/docs/source/conf.py
similarity index 84%
rename from docs/source/conf.py.in
rename to docs/source/conf.py
index 99ce7143..86b7b805 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py.in
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 # standard imports
 from datetime import datetime
+import os
+import re
 
 
 # -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -13,8 +15,6 @@ from datetime import datetime
 # 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.
-import os
-# import sys
 
 script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))  # the directory of this file
 source_dir = os.path.dirname(script_dir)  # the source folder directory
@@ -26,8 +26,16 @@ copyright = f'{datetime.now ().year}, {project}'
 author = 'ReenigneArcher'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-version = '@PROJECT_VERSION@'
-
+with open(os.path.join(root_dir, 'CMakeLists.txt'), 'r') as f:
+    version = re.search(r"project\(Sunshine VERSION ((\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+))\)", str(f.read())).group(1)
+"""
+To use cmake method for obtaining version instead of regex,
+1. Within CMakeLists.txt add the following line without backticks:
+   ``configure_file(docs/source/conf.py.in "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/source/conf.py" @ONLY)``
+2. Rename this file to ``conf.py.in``
+3. Uncomment the next line
+"""
+# version = '@PROJECT_VERSION@'  # use this for cmake configure_file method
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------