diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index c5c95b6cc..7ccb97b00 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -81,15 +81,16 @@ author = u'Project ARCN developers'
 
 # The following code tries to extract the information by reading the
 # Makefile from the acrn-hypervisor repo by finding these lines:
-#   MAJOR_VERSION=0
-#   MINOR_VERSION=1
-#   RC_VERSION=1
+#   MAJOR_VERSION=1
+#   MINOR_VERSION=3
+#   EXTRA_VERSION=-unstable
 
 try:
     version_major = None
     version_minor = None
     version_rc = None
-    for line in open(os.path.normpath("../VERSION")) :
+
+    for line in open(os.path.realpath("../../../VERSION")) :
         # remove comments
         line = line.split('#', 1)[0]
         line = line.rstrip()
@@ -103,19 +104,15 @@ try:
               version_rc = val
            if version_major and version_minor and version_rc :
               break
-except:
-    pass
 finally:
     if version_major and version_minor :
-        version = release = "v " + version_major + '.' + version_minor
+        version = release = "v " + str(version_major) + '.' + str(version_minor)
         if version_rc :
           version = release = version + version_rc
     else:
         sys.stderr.write('Warning: Could not extract hypervisor version from VERSION file\n')
         version = release = "unknown"
 
-
-
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
 # version = u'0.1'
diff --git a/doc/scripts/filter-doc-log.sh b/doc/scripts/filter-doc-log.sh
index 15297693a..24aca50ac 100755
--- a/doc/scripts/filter-doc-log.sh
+++ b/doc/scripts/filter-doc-log.sh
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ fi
 
 if [ -s "${LOG_FILE}" ]; then
    $KI_SCRIPT --config-dir ${CONFIG_DIR} ${LOG_FILE} > ${BUILDDIR}/doc.warnings 2>&1
-   if [ -s doc.warnings ]; then
+   if [ -s ${BUILDDIR}/doc.warnings ]; then
 	   echo
 	   echo -e "${red}New errors/warnings found, please fix them:"
 	   echo -e "=============================================="
 	   $TPUT sgr0
 	   echo
-	   cat doc.warnings
+	   cat ${BUILDDIR}/doc.warnings
 	   echo
 	   exit 1
    else