diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2618be6..8632897 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 
+## [2024-01-02] 1.0.4
+- shpinx: fix conf.py, was still using old `get_version` function
+
 ## [2024-01-02] 1.0.3
 - docs: added docs own `requirements.txt` with sphinx rtd theme (#19)
 - build: now build automatically reads the current git tag, instead of relying
diff --git a/drypy/docs/conf.py b/drypy/docs/conf.py
index b015f7c..804026c 100644
--- a/drypy/docs/conf.py
+++ b/drypy/docs/conf.py
@@ -19,9 +19,17 @@
 #
 import os
 import sys
+
+from datetime import datetime
+from subprocess import check_output
+
+
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
 
-import drypy
+
+def get_version():
+    return check_output(['git', 'describe',]).decode('ascii').strip()
+
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -53,24 +61,22 @@
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = 'drypy'
-copyright = '2017-2020, Daniele Zanotelli'
+copyright = f'2017-{datetime.now().year}, Daniele Zanotelli'
 author = 'Daniele Zanotelli'
 
 # 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 = drypy.get_version(short=True)
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = drypy.get_version()
+version = get_version()
+release = get_version()
 
 # 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
+language = 'en'
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.