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# Releasing

Each package is versioned and released **independently**. A release bumps one
package's version and records its changes in the shared root changelog -- which
consolidates both packages under one set of sections -- without touching the
other package.

The version literal lives in two places per package:

- `packages/<name>/pyproject.toml` -- `[project].version`
- `packages/<name>/src/<module>/__about__.py` -- `__version__`

Publishing is driven by CI on tag push. Tags are created and pushed by a
maintainer, never by tooling.

```{note}
Because the admin integration depends on the core package through a loose
floor (`django-search-query>=X`), the two can be released on separate
cadences.
```