diff --git a/Traefik/README.md b/Traefik/README.md
index 9e5ab1c0..8c93676d 100644
--- a/Traefik/README.md
+++ b/Traefik/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Some of the benefits of using Traefik over NGinx are:
 - `BTCPAYGEN_ADDITIONAL_FRAGMENTS`: Add `traefik`
 - `BTCPAY_ADDITIONAL_HOSTS`: Traefik can not accept list of hosts. Add additional hosts in a new file named e.g. `btcpayserver-traefic.custom.yml`:
   ```
-  version: "3"
   services:
     btcpayserver:
       labels:
diff --git a/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/beldex.yml b/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/beldex.yml
index b4822ba5..0cec0884 100644
--- a/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/beldex.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/beldex.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-version: "3"
-
 services:
   beldexd:
     restart: unless-stopped
diff --git a/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/opt-beldex-expose.yml b/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/opt-beldex-expose.yml
index e5f83d10..2e14d059 100644
--- a/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/opt-beldex-expose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-generator/docker-fragments/opt-beldex-expose.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-version: "3"
-
 services:
   beldexd:
     ports:
diff --git a/docker-compose-generator/src/DockerComposeDefinition.cs b/docker-compose-generator/src/DockerComposeDefinition.cs
index 43342eba..6d7d73b0 100644
--- a/docker-compose-generator/src/DockerComposeDefinition.cs
+++ b/docker-compose-generator/src/DockerComposeDefinition.cs
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ namespace DockerGenerator
 			}
 
 			YamlMappingNode output = new YamlMappingNode();
-			output.Add("version", new YamlScalarNode("3") { Style = YamlDotNet.Core.ScalarStyle.DoubleQuoted });
 			output.Add("services", new YamlMappingNode(Merge(services)));
 			output.Add("volumes", new YamlMappingNode(volumes));
 			output.Add("configs", new YamlMappingNode(configs));