diff --git a/.github/workflows/CD.yml b/.github/workflows/cd.yml
similarity index 92%
rename from .github/workflows/CD.yml
rename to .github/workflows/cd.yml
index 931f440b..a8ee2590 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CD.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cd.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - master
+    tags:
+    - v*
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+    - master
   release:
     types:
     - published
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 9d9a0b6d..3c76f48f 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ python:
   version: 3.7
   install:
     - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3b2a3a9a..bc28efad 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 [build-system]
 # Minimum requirements for the build system (setup.py) to execute.
-requires = ["wheel", "setuptools>=39.2.0"]
+requires = ["wheel", "setuptools>=42", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4",]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+write_to = "src/mplhep/_version.py"
+
 [tool.nbqa.config]
 black = "pyproject.toml"
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 91626754..47568fc4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = mplhep
-version = file: src/mplhep/.VERSION
+# version = file: src/mplhep/.VERSION
 long_description = file: README.md
 long_description_content_type = text/markdown
 author = andrzejnovak
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8c906457..6d1b29fd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import setuptools_scm  # noqa: F401
 from setuptools import setup
 
 extras_require = {
diff --git a/src/mplhep/.VERSION b/src/mplhep/.VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e29e106..00000000
--- a/src/mplhep/.VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.3.15
diff --git a/src/mplhep/__init__.py b/src/mplhep/__init__.py
index 116a11e9..42cad831 100644
--- a/src/mplhep/__init__.py
+++ b/src/mplhep/__init__.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from . import alice, atlas, cms, label, lhcb, plot
 from . import styles as style
 from ._tools import Config
+from ._version import version as __version__  # noqa: F401
 from .label import save_variations, savelabels
 from .plot import (
     append_axes,
@@ -41,12 +42,6 @@
     ),
 )
 
-# Make __version__ available
-_base_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-
-with open(os.path.join(_base_dir, ".VERSION")) as version_file:
-    __version__ = version_file.read().strip()
-
 path = os.path.abspath(__file__)
 font_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(mplhep_data.__file__), "fonts")
 font_files = fm.findSystemFonts(fontpaths=font_path)
diff --git a/src/mplhep/version.pyi b/src/mplhep/version.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5bb2b22f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mplhep/version.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version: str
+version_tuple: tuple[int, int, int] | tuple[int, int, int, str, str]