diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1d212e6d5a689051d40539f0db7fb3dc0ca6841a..698ceca148d712874f7d3c59ff29d029e7dfeb33 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ build_and_deploy_docs:
         - echo "Bucket=${BUCKET_NAME}"
         - echo "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}"
         - echo "CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG=${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}"
-        - xvfb-run tox -v -e docs
+        - xvfb-run tox -v -e docs --recreate
         - aws s3 cp ./docs/_build/html/ s3://${BUCKET_NAME} --recursive
     environment:
         name: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 66f5183f192dc083f87fc9a0175c9f6fe733545e..4bec1b3242658dedf7add9aea2bc56fac028ce00 100755
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
 
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
-extensions = ['recommonmark', 'sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.viewcode', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'numpydoc']
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.viewcode', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'numpydoc']
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']