diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 154bbf63..16891a44 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23.1)
 
+set(MATX_VERSION 0.7.0)
+
 # Used for config file generation
 if(NOT DEFINED PROJECT_NAME)
   set(NOT_SUBPROJECT ON)
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ set(cutensornet_DIR "" CACHE PATH "Directory where cuTensorNet is installed.")
 set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
 
 if (MATX_BUILD_DOCS)
-    project(MATX_DOCS)
+    project(MATX_DOCS VERSION ${MATX_VERSION})
     add_subdirectory(docs_input)
 endif()
 
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ endif()
 project(MATX
         LANGUAGES CUDA CXX
         DESCRIPTION "A modern and efficient header-only C++ library for numerical computing on GPU"
-        VERSION 0.7.0
+        VERSION ${MATX_VERSION}
         HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/NVIDIA/MatX")
 
 if (NOT CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8f6f65e..dc6f87de 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ cmake -DMATX_BUILD_TESTS=ON ..
 make -j
 ```
 
-Note that if documentation is selected all other build options are off. This eases the dependencies needed to build documentation
-so large libraries such as CUDA don't need to be installed.
-
 ### Integrating MatX With Your Own Projects
 MatX uses CMake as a first-class build generator, and therefore provides the proper config files to include into your own project. There are
 typically two ways to do this: 
diff --git a/docs_input/conf.py.in b/docs_input/conf.py.in
index fb9fcf3a..b44efa27 100644
--- a/docs_input/conf.py.in
+++ b/docs_input/conf.py.in
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ copyright = '2021-2024, Nvidia'
 author = 'Nvidia'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.7'
+version = '@PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR@.@PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR@'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '0.7'
+release = '@PROJECT_VERSION@'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------