Merge pull request #2405 from VWS-Python/release-change-version

Author: adamtheturtle

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@
 # Use ``importlib.metadata.version`` as per
 # https://setuptools-scm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/#usage-from-sphinx.
 version = importlib.metadata.version(distribution_name=project)
-_month, _day, _year, *_ = version.split(sep=".")
-release = f"{_month}.{_day}.{_year}"
+# This method of getting the release from the version goes hand in hand with
+# the ``post-release`` versioning scheme chosen in the ``setuptools-scm``
+# configuration.
+release = version.split(".post")[0]
 
 
 project_metadata = importlib.metadata.metadata(distribution_name=project)

pyproject.toml

@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ universal = true
 # This must be a PEP 440 compliant version.
 fallback_version = "0.0.0"
 
+# This keeps the start of the version the same as the last release.
+# This is useful for our documentation to include e.g. binary links
+# to the latest released binary.
+#
+# Code to match this is in ``conf.py``.
+version_scheme = "post-release"
+
 [tool.ruff]
 target-version = "py311"