diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index 7776332..7a4c271 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -7,23 +7,27 @@
 # The contents of this file are pickled, so don't put values in the namespace
 # that aren't pickleable (module imports are okay, they're removed automatically).
 
+import sys, os, time
+sys.path.append('tools/sphinxext')
+
 # General configuration
 # ---------------------
 
 # General substitutions.
 project = 'Python'
-copyright = '1990-2007, Python Software Foundation'
+copyright = '1990-%s, Python Software Foundation' % time.strftime('%Y')
 
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|.
-# If '<auto>', Sphinx looks for the Include/patchlevel.h file in the current Python
-# source tree and replaces the values accordingly.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
 # version = '2.6'
-version = '<auto>'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 # release = '2.6a0'
-release = '<auto>'
+
+# We look for the Include/patchlevel.h file in the current Python source tree
+# and replace the values accordingly.
+import patchlevel
+version, release = patchlevel.get_version_info()
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
@@ -118,7 +122,6 @@
      'What\'s New in Python', 'A. M. Kuchling', 'howto'),
 ]
 # Collect all HOWTOs individually
-import os
 latex_documents.extend(('howto/' + fn, 'howto-' + fn[:-4] + '.tex',
                         'HOWTO', _stdauthor, 'howto')
                        for fn in os.listdir('howto')
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/patchlevel.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/patchlevel.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..971ea61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/patchlevel.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    patchlevel.py
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Extract version info from Include/patchlevel.h.
+    Adapted from Doc/tools/getversioninfo.
+
+    :copyright: 2007-2008 by Georg Brandl.
+    :license: Python license.
+"""
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+def get_header_version_info(srcdir):
+    patchlevel_h = os.path.join(srcdir, '..', 'Include', 'patchlevel.h')
+
+    # This won't pick out all #defines, but it will pick up the ones we
+    # care about.
+    rx = re.compile(r'\s*#define\s+([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9]*)\s+([a-zA-Z_0-9]+)')
+
+    d = {}
+    f = open(patchlevel_h)
+    try:
+        for line in f:
+            m = rx.match(line)
+            if m is not None:
+                name, value = m.group(1, 2)
+                d[name] = value
+    finally:
+        f.close()
+
+    release = version = '%s.%s' % (d['PY_MAJOR_VERSION'], d['PY_MINOR_VERSION'])
+    micro = int(d['PY_MICRO_VERSION'])
+    if micro != 0:
+        release += '.' + str(micro)
+
+    level = d['PY_RELEASE_LEVEL']
+    suffixes = {
+        'PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA': 'a',
+        'PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_BETA':  'b',
+        'PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA': 'c',
+        }
+    if level != 'PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL':
+        release += suffixes[level] + str(int(d['PY_RELEASE_SERIAL']))
+    return version, release
+
+
+def get_sys_version_info():
+    major, minor, micro, level, serial = sys.version_info
+    release = version = '%s.%s' % (major, minor)
+    if micro:
+        release += '.%s' % micro
+    if level != 'final':
+        release += '%s%s' % (level[0], serial)
+    return version, release
+
+
+def get_version_info():
+    try:
+        return get_header_version_info('.')
+    except (IOError, OSError):
+        version, release = get_sys_version_info()
+        print >>sys.stderr, 'Can\'t get version info from Include/patchlevel.h, ' \
+              'using version of this interpreter (%s).' % release
+        return version, release