diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 0e0c698..5ddf090 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ sphinx:
 
 # declare the Python requirements required to build your documentation
 # See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/reproducible-builds.html
+# Install the package itself so that the version can be fetched dynamically during docs building (see docs/source/conf.py)
 python:
-   install:
-   - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+  install:
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
+      extra_requirements: [docs]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index cf5ac8c..bb49b87 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -8,13 +8,19 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
+try:
+    from cpax import __version__
+except (ImportError, AttributeError) as e:
+    raise RuntimeError(
+        "Failed to import `__version__` from the `cpax` package. Ensure that the `cpax` package is installed "
+        "and contains a `__version__` attribute."
+    ) from e
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../../src'))
-import importlib.metadata
 
 project = 'CPax'
 copyright = '2025, Jan Lukas Späh'
 author = 'Jan Lukas Späh'
-release = importlib.metadata.version("cpax")
+release = __version__
 version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------