diff --git a/.github/workflows/push-app-image.yml b/.github/workflows/push-app-image.yml
index 610703a..7df9977 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push-app-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push-app-image.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
     tags:
       - "v*.*.[1-9]*"
   workflow_run:
-    workflows: 
+    workflows:
       - "Push base image"
     types:
       - "completed"
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
 
+      - name: update version info
+        run: |
+          git describe --tags >| VERSION
+          git rev-parse HEAD >> VERSION
+
       - name: Build the Docker image
         run: >
           docker build -f Dockerfile .
diff --git a/.github/workflows/push-test-image.yml b/.github/workflows/push-test-image.yml
index 93cb36f..785bc3b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push-test-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push-test-image.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
 
+      - name: update version info
+        run: |
+          git describe --tags >| VERSION
+          git rev-parse HEAD >> VERSION
+
       - name: Build the Docker image
         run: >
           docker build -f Dockerfile .
@@ -32,4 +37,3 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Push to Docker Hub
         run: docker push $DOCKER_USER/$REPO_NAME:test
-
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2555d35..6543906 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -138,3 +138,4 @@ tags.temp
 # Local
 ext/arabic_rom/data
 !.keep
+VERSION
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 779cfe4..fc6eace 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ARG WORKROOT "/usr/local/scriptshifter/src"
 
 # Copy core application files.
 WORKDIR ${WORKROOT}
-COPY entrypoint.sh uwsgi.ini wsgi.py ./
+COPY entrypoint.sh uwsgi.ini wsgi.py VERSION ./
 COPY scriptshifter ./scriptshifter/
 COPY requirements.txt ./
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/deps.txt b/deps.txt
index 7e0d8e1..8bf3f68 100644
--- a/deps.txt
+++ b/deps.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-# External dependencies.
-aksharamukha>=2.2,<3
+# Base image dependencies.
 camel-tools>=1.5
 funcy>=1.15,<2
 pymarc>=4.0,<5
 repackage>=0.7.3
-./ext/yiddish
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 386de14..cdff1bc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@ flask-cors>=4.0,<5
 python-dotenv>=1.0,<2
 pyyaml>=6.0,<7
 uwsgi>=2.0,<2.1
-yiddish==0.0.21