diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index cc9b9f5e9..bb9a92b62 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -767,8 +767,8 @@ PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES=<list>
 
 PAPERLESS_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=<bool>
     Enabling this option enables the check for available updates, which works by
-    loading the version file of the public repository for this project on Github e.g.
-    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/main/src/paperless/version.py
+    pinging the releases endpoint of the Github API for the project e.g.
+    https://api.github.com/repos/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases/latest
     to determine whether a new version is available. Actual updating of the app must be done manually.
 
     No tracking data is collected by the app in any way.
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index 141331169..5dc5667c3 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -679,8 +679,8 @@ class RemoteVersionView(GenericAPIView):
         if settings.ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK:
             try:
                 with urllib.request.urlopen(
-                    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperless-ngx"
-                    + "/paperless-ngx/main/src/paperless/version.py",
+                    "https://api.github.com/repos/"
+                    + "paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases/latest",
                 ) as response:
                     remote = response.read().decode("utf-8")
                 try: