diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 479b8932..3d9eee89 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ WORKDIR /mnt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir \
     beautifulsoup4 dnspython pyxdg requests cchardet polib
 
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir \
-   https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/archive/master.zip
+RUN set -x \
+    && apt-get update -qq \
+    && apt-get install -y -qq --no-install-recommends git \
+    && pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker.git \
+    && apt-get -y -qq purge git \
+    && apt-get autoremove -y -qq \
+    && apt-get clean -y -qq all \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["linkchecker"]
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 0c87f836..67fa93c9 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -79,3 +79,5 @@ recursive-include windows               \
     *.cer                               \
     *.pfx                               \
     *.pvk
+
+prune .github/
diff --git a/doc/development.md b/doc/development.md
index 6d1d94a3..47c0e428 100644
--- a/doc/development.md
+++ b/doc/development.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Release process
 1. check whether updated translations need committing
    (`make locale; make -C doc locale; make -C doc man`)
 
-2. bump AppVersion in `setup.py`, edit `changelog.txt`, and if applicable the
+2. edit `changelog.txt`, and if applicable the
    copyright date in `linkcheck/configuration/__init__.py`
 
 3. confirm tests have passed
@@ -74,6 +74,4 @@ Release process
 
 8. check distribution files (`twine check dist/*`) and upload to PyPI (`twine upload dist/*`)
 
-9. create release (vX.Y.Z) on GitHub (GitHub creates the .tar.gz and .zip archives)
-
-10. increment AppVersion to vX.Y.Z+1.dev0
+9. create release (vX.Y.Z) on GitHub (warn users about GitHub archives)
diff --git a/doc/src/conf.py b/doc/src/conf.py
index 01b0a523..2d27be15 100644
--- a/doc/src/conf.py
+++ b/doc/src/conf.py
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
-from datetime import date
 import linkcheck.configuration
 
 project = 'LinkChecker'
 copyright = linkcheck.configuration.Copyright.split("Copyright (C) ")[1]
-version = str(date.today())
+version = linkcheck.configuration.Version
 release = version
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a33a6cec..fc8971cd 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ except ImportError:
 else:
     COMPILE_TRANSLATIONS = True
 
-# the application version
-AppVersion = "10.0.1"
 # the application name
 AppName = "LinkChecker"
 Description = "check links in web documents or full websites"
@@ -336,7 +334,10 @@ if os.name == "posix":
 
 setup(
     name=AppName,
-    version=AppVersion,
+    use_scm_version={
+        "local_scheme": "node-and-timestamp",
+        "version_scheme": "post-release",
+    },
     description=Description,
     keywords="link,url,site,checking,crawling,verification,validation",
     author=myname,
@@ -371,6 +372,7 @@ setup(
     options={},
     # Requirements, usable with setuptools or the new Python packaging module.
     python_requires=">= 3.6",
+    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
     install_requires=[
         "requests >= 2.4",
         "dnspython >= 2.0",