diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_LmdpdGlnbm9yZQ==..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_LmdpdGlnbm9yZQ== 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 *.so
 /build
 /dist
+/docs
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_LmdpdG1vZHVsZXM=..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "docs"]
-	path = docs
-	url = git@github.com:simplejson/simplejson.git
diff --git a/.hgsub b/.hgsub
deleted file mode 100644
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_Lmhnc3Vi..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/.hgsub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1 +0,0 @@
-docs = [git]git@github.com:simplejson/simplejson.git
diff --git a/.hgsubstate b/.hgsubstate
deleted file mode 100644
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_Lmhnc3Vic3RhdGU=..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/.hgsubstate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1 +0,0 @@
-b21190d234a8826b949a673e20d323224b2e4ebf docs
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 2.1.7 released 2011-XX-XX
+
+* Moved documentation from a git submodule to
+  http://simplejson.readthedocs.org/
+
 Version 2.1.6 released 2011-05-08
 
 * Prevent segfaults with deeply nested JSON documents
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_UkVBRE1FLnJzdA==..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_UkVBRE1FLnJzdA== 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 extension for a serious speed boost.
 
 The latest documentation for simplejson can be read online here:
-http://simplejson.github.com/simplejson/
+http://simplejson.readthedocs.org/
 
 simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the
 json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_Y29uZi5weQ==..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.1.6'
+release = '2.1.7'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_c2V0dXAucHk=..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '2.1.6'
+VERSION = '2.1.7'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst', 'r').read()
 
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index b8c20d36017c13358bd78d951fe066077bdef574_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..94d8f87763fc1bf0796d88918d9b1586e564e246_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
 """
-__version__ = '2.1.6'
+__version__ = '2.1.7'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',