diff --git a/cppad.spec b/cppad.spec
index be19055..eaae564 100644
--- a/cppad.spec
+++ b/cppad.spec
@@ -15,21 +15,26 @@
 # are the same. This is because a redirect from index.hml to user_guide.html 
 # will not reload when user_guide.html changes.
 #
-# fedora uses its own soversion number for cppad_lib
-# 5.0 corresponds to version 20240000 
-%define soversion 5.0
-
+# year 
+# The year corresponding to this version
+%define year 2025
+#
+# soversion
+# fedora uses its own soversion number for cppad_lib where
+# 1.0 corresponds to year 2020
+%define soversion %[ %year - 2019 ] 
+#
 # This is really an out of soruce build because the source is in the
-# CppAD-%%{version} sub-directory. The fedora macros are confused and need 
-# this defined true.
+# CppAD-%%{version} sub-directory of the source. The fedora macros are 
+# confused and need this defined true.
 %define __cmake_in_source_build 1
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Fedora Release starts with 1; see
 # https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Versioning/
 Name:    cppad
-Version: 20250000.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: %{year}0000.0
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Summary: C++ Algorithmic Differentiation (AD), %{name}-devel and %{name}-doc
 #
 License: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
@@ -65,26 +70,14 @@ Provides: coin-or-cppad-devel = %{version}-%{release}
 We refer to the step by step conversion from an algorithm that computes 
 function values to an algorithm that computes derivative values as 
 Algorithmic Differentiation (often referred to as Automatic Differentiation.) 
-Given a C++ algorithm that computes function values, {name} generates an 
+Given a C++ algorithm that computes function values, %{name} generates an 
 algorithm that computes its derivative values. A brief introduction to 
 Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) can be found at 
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation
-See the package %{name}-doc for documentation of this version of %{name}. 
-The documentation, for the most recent version of %{name}, can be found at
-     https://cppad.readthedocs.io
-
-# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-%package doc
-Summary: Documentation for %{name}-devel
-BuildArch: noarch
-
-%description doc
-The %{name}-doc package installs the HTML documentation for this version
-of %{name}-devel in
-     %{_docdir}/%{name}
-The documentation, for the most recent version of %{name}, can be found at
+The documentation for the %{year} version
+     https://cppad.readthedocs.io/stable-%{year}
+The documentation for the most recent version of %{name} can be found at
      https://cppad.readthedocs.io/latest
-
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # prep
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -105,36 +98,10 @@ sed -i CppAD-%{version}/include/cppad/local/var_op/atomic_op.hpp \
 echo ''                   >> CppAD-%{version}/xrst.toml
 echo '[input_files]'      >> CppAD-%{version}/xrst.toml
 echo 'data = [ ]'         >> CppAD-%{version}/xrst.toml
-#
-# CppAD-%%{version}/build/html
-# run xrst to create the documentation files in the directory above
-mkdir CppAD-%{version}/build
-xrst --version
-number_jobs=$(echo %{?_smp_mflags} | sed -e 's|[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*|\1|')
-if [ "$number_jobs" == '' ]
-then
-   number_jobs='1'
-fi
-xrst \
-   --config_file CppAD-%{version}/xrst.toml \
-   --local_toc \
-   --target html \
-   --html_theme sphinx_rtd_theme \
-   --index_page_name user_guide \
-   --group_list default app \
-   --number_jobs $number_jobs \
-   --suppress_spell_warnings
-#
-# CppAD-%%{version}/build/html
-# remove hidden files not needed for viewing documentation
-rm CppAD-%{version}/build/html/.buildinfo
-rm -r CppAD-%{version}/build/html/.doctrees
-mv CppAD-%{version}/build/html html
-
 #
 # COPYING, uw_copy_040507.html
-mv CppAD-%{version}/COPYING  COPYING
-mv CppAD-%{version}/uw_copy_040507.html uw_copy_040507.html
+cp CppAD-%{version}/COPYING  COPYING
+cp CppAD-%{version}/uw_copy_040507.html uw_copy_040507.html
 #
 # fix bug
 # should not be needed once version > 20250000.0
@@ -295,11 +262,6 @@ cppad_cxx_flags=\
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/%{name}.pc
 %{_libdir}/libcppad_lib.so
 
-%files doc
-
-# These documentation files are build by the xrst command above
-%doc html
-
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Check
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -312,7 +274,12 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check
 # This enables one to check that the necessary files are installed.
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 %changelog
-* Sat Jan 18 2025 Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com> - 20250000.0-1
+* Sat Jan 19 2025 Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com> - 20250000.0-3
+- 1. Add the year macro and use it to define soversion and Version.
+- 2. Remove the cppad-doc subpackage because documantion for this stable 
+     version is not available at https://cppad.readthedocs.io/stable-2025/ .
+
+* Sat Jan 18 2025 Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com> - 20250000.0-2
 - This fixes two bugs and will not be necessary
 - once the upstream source advances to 20250000.1.