diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 9a042ba1e..1bb947c41 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     "sphinx.ext.napoleon",
     "sphinx.ext.todo",
     "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
+    "recommonmark",
 ]
 
 # autodoc/autosummary flags
@@ -49,10 +50,6 @@
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ["_templates"]
 
-# Allow markdown includes (so releases.md can include CHANGLEOG.md)
-# http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/markdown.html
-source_parsers = {".md": "recommonmark.parser.CommonMarkParser"}
-
 # The suffix(es) of source filenames.
 # You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
 # source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']