How do I get rid of the “Release 1” in the Page Header of the Sphinx Latex Output?

Question

I\'m using the \"manual\" document class of Sphinx and I\'m quite happy with how the Latex Output looks like, except for the page header. It contains the title of my paper,

Answer 1

As of Sphinx 1.5 something, the workaround of setting an empty string stopped working - at least in my case (I had used it to suppress printing "Release " on the title page) . However, setting release to a blank space does work for me. There's more discussion of it here in the Sphinx-Users group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sphinx-users/L5PUfwVu8f0 and there was a related bug report filed: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/4411