diff --git a/docs/contributing/about-version-numbers.md b/docs/contributing/about-version-numbers.md
index 3f9228037d..f87d6c90ab 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/about-version-numbers.md
+++ b/docs/contributing/about-version-numbers.md
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Here is the list of files that need to be updated:
 	docs/changes.txt
 	docs/readme.txt (date needs manual editing)  [NOT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY]
 	docs/doxygen/Doxyfile (PROJECT_NUMBER and DOCSET_FEEDNAME)
-	docs/doxygen/latexdocstart.inc
 	docs/doxygen/mainpages/manual.h (just date)  [NOT UPDATED AUTOMATICALLY]
 	docs/msw/install.txt {major release only}
 	include/wx/version.h
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/latex_header.tex b/docs/doxygen/latex_header.tex
index 9abf51aa2a..d0b53f0325 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/latex_header.tex
+++ b/docs/doxygen/latex_header.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\batchmode
+% Latex header for doxygen 1.8.8
 \documentclass[twoside]{book}
 
 % Packages required by doxygen
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
 \fancyhead[RO]{\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\thepage}}
 \fancyfoot[LE]{\fancyplain{}{}}
 \fancyfoot[CE]{\fancyplain{}{}}
-\fancyfoot[RE]{\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\scriptsize Generated on $date for wxWidgets by Doxygen }}
-\fancyfoot[LO]{\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\scriptsize Generated on $date for wxWidgets by Doxygen }}
+\fancyfoot[RE]{\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\scriptsize Generated on \today }}
+\fancyfoot[LO]{\fancyplain{}{\bfseries\scriptsize Generated on \today }}
 \fancyfoot[CO]{\fancyplain{}{}}
 \fancyfoot[RO]{\fancyplain{}{}}
 \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
@@ -118,12 +118,13 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 
+% Titlepage & ToC
 \hypersetup{pageanchor=false,
              bookmarks=true,
              bookmarksnumbered=true,
              pdfencoding=unicode
             }
-
+\pagenumbering{roman}
 \begin{titlepage}
 \begin{center}
 \vspace*{3cm}
@@ -133,16 +134,15 @@
 \end{center}
 \end{figure}
 \vspace*{2cm}
-{\huge Version $projectnumber}\\
+{\huge $projectnumber Reference Manual}\\
 \vspace*{1cm}
 {\large \today}\\
 \end{center}
 \end{titlepage}
-
-\pagenumbering{roman}
 \clearemptydoublepage
 \tableofcontents
 \clearemptydoublepage
 \pagenumbering{arabic}
-
 \hypersetup{pageanchor=true}
+
+%--- Begin generated contents ---
diff --git a/misc/scripts/inc_release b/misc/scripts/inc_release
index 526b49659f..dfea623b29 100755
--- a/misc/scripts/inc_release
+++ b/misc/scripts/inc_release
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ##############################################################################
 # Name:       misc/scripts/inc_release
 # Purpose:    increments the release version number in all files mentioned in
-#             docs/tech/tn0011.txt
+#             docs/contributing/about-version-numbers.md
 # Created:    2007-01-07
 # Copyright:  (c) 2007 Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwindows.org>
 # Licence:    wxWindows licence
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ run_sed docs/readme.txt \
 run_sed docs/doxygen/Doxyfile \
     "/^PROJECT_NUMBER/s/$ver_for_sed/$ver_string_new/"
 
-run_sed docs/doxygen/latexdocstart.inc \
-    "/\\large Version/s/$ver_for_sed/$ver_string_new/"
-
 run_sed include/wx/version.h \
     "s/^\(#define wxRELEASE_NUMBER *\) $ver_release$/\1 $ver_release_new/" \
     "s/^\(#define wxSUBRELEASE_NUMBER *\) [0-9]\{1,\}$/\1 0/" \