Load the version information from ../Include/patchlevel.h, so there are
fewer changes to make to version numbers after a release.
diff --git a/Doc/commontex/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/commontex/boilerplate.tex
index 434feaa..cab70c0 100644
--- a/Doc/commontex/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/commontex/boilerplate.tex
@@ -6,6 +6,4 @@
 }
 
 \date{\today}			% XXX update before final release!
-\release{2.4}			% software release, not documentation
-\setreleaseinfo{a0}		% empty for final release
-\setshortversion{2.4}		% major.minor only for software
+\input{patchlevel}		% include Python version information