diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index db256dfbc4eb4522698b3eff50b3e8ee787c020d..409f99e908c63615d970c42bc08736c23459a755 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 import inspect
 import tempfile
+import unittest
 
 from docutils import nodes
 from sphinx.util.docfields import TypedField
 from sphinx import addnodes
 
-import unittest
+import lisa
 
 # This ugly hack is required because by default TestCase.__module__ is
 # equal to 'case', so sphinx replaces all of our TestCase uses to
@@ -118,15 +119,16 @@ copyright = u'2017, ARM-Software'
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
-
 try:
     git_description = subprocess.check_output(
         ['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--match=v??.??'])
     version = re.match('v([0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]).*', git_description).group(1)
-    release = version
 except Exception as e:
-    logging.error("Couldn't set project version from git: {}".format(e))
-    version = release = 'UNKNOWN_VERSION'
+    logging.info("Couldn't set project version from git: {}".format(e))
+    version = lisa.__version__
+
+version = str(version)
+release = version
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.