From 8980dd216c4034619ad043a3779c877beb87d167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sumanjeet0012 <sumanjeet0012@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:40:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add version.json to match go-multicodec

Expose the current release version in a machine-readable file, as
go-multicodec does, and bump it alongside the other version strings in
``bump-my-version``.
---
 pyproject.toml | 5 +++++
 version.json   | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 version.json

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 23751b1..85ed3de 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ filename = "pyproject.toml"
 search = "Download = \"https://github.com/multiformats/py-multicodec/tarball/{current_version}\""
 replace = "Download = \"https://github.com/multiformats/py-multicodec/tarball/{new_version}\""
 
+[[tool.bumpversion.files]]
+filename = "version.json"
+search = '"version": "v{current_version}"'
+replace = '"version": "v{new_version}"'
+
 [tool.mypy]
 python_version = "3.10"
 check_untyped_defs = false
diff --git a/version.json b/version.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77dfc03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "version": "v1.0.0"
+}

From f1448fca90d41e02f8faa55ed82fa0512769ab5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sumanjeet0012 <sumanjeet0012@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:40:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add newsfragment for #44

---
 newsfragments/44.feature.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 newsfragments/44.feature.rst

diff --git a/newsfragments/44.feature.rst b/newsfragments/44.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bdace4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/44.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add ``version.json`` at the repository root to match ``go-multicodec``, and keep it in sync on release through ``bump-my-version``.