From 0ec562929c5b3dbe3acd5f5ae73ae243eb384122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Abendshien <46939827+CyanVoxel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 16:56:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore: bump version to v9.6.1

---
 pyproject.toml                  | 2 +-
 src/tagstudio/core/constants.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c2f3080b..8b4679da 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 [project]
 name = "TagStudio"
 description = "A User-Focused Photo & File Management System."
-version = "9.6.0"
+version = "9.6.1"
 license = "GPL-3.0-only"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.12,<3.14"
diff --git a/src/tagstudio/core/constants.py b/src/tagstudio/core/constants.py
index 58db564d..047fb720 100644
--- a/src/tagstudio/core/constants.py
+++ b/src/tagstudio/core/constants.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (c) TagStudio Contributors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
 
+from importlib.metadata import version
 
-VERSION: str = "9.6.0"  # Major.Minor.Patch
+VERSION: str = version("tagstudio")  # Major.Minor.Patch
 VERSION_BRANCH: str = ""  # Usually "" or "Pre-Release"
 COPYRIGHT_YEARS: str = "2021-2026"
 COPYRIGHT: str = f"© {COPYRIGHT_YEARS} Travis Abendshien & TagStudio Contributors"