diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_to_pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_to_pypi.yml
index 71c73d0d..69611614 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_to_pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_to_pypi.yml
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ jobs:
 
     # This job has several steps
     steps:
-      # Checks out the master branch and then activates a relatively recent version of Python
+      # Checks out the master branch and then activates a recent version of Python
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-
+        fetch-tags: true
 
     - name: Setup the Python install
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.12
 
     # The next two chunks set up PIP properly and build the module
     - name: Install pypa/build
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ jobs:
         --user
 
     # This SHOULD set the correct version in setup.py, taken from the tag
-    - name: Extract tag name
-      id: tag
-      run: echo ::set-output name=TAG_NAME::$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d / -f 3)
-    - name: Update version in setup.py
-      run: >-
-        sed -i "s/{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}/${{ steps.tag.outputs.TAG_NAME }}/g" setup.py
+#    - name: Extract tag name
+#      id: tag
+#      run: echo ::set-output name=TAG_NAME::$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d / -f 3)
+#    - name: Update version in setup.py
+#      run: >-
+#        sed -i "s/{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}/${{ steps.tag.outputs.TAG_NAME }}/g" setup.py
 
     - name: Build a binary wheel and source tarball
       run: >-
diff --git a/daxa/_version.py b/daxa/_version.py
index 97112426..7ed02498 100644
--- a/daxa/_version.py
+++ b/daxa/_version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 #  This code is a part of the Democratising Archival X-ray Astronomy (DAXA) module.
-#  Last modified by David J Turner (turne540@msu.edu) 09/08/2024, 15:37. Copyright (c) The Contributors
+#  Last modified by David J Turner (turne540@msu.edu) 23/08/2024, 16:43. Copyright (c) The Contributors
 
 # This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
 # git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(
     # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
     describe_out, rc = runner(GITS, [
         "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always", "--long",
-        "--match", f"{tag_prefix}[[:digit:]]*"
+        "--match", f"v*"  # TODO THIS IS WHERE I BODGED IT
     ], cwd=root)
     # --long was added in git-1.5.5
     if describe_out is None:
diff --git a/versioneer.py b/versioneer.py
index 2a877f33..ac28a27c 100644
--- a/versioneer.py
+++ b/versioneer.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 #  This code is a part of the Democratising Archival X-ray Astronomy (DAXA) module.
-#  Last modified by David J Turner (turne540@msu.edu) 09/08/2024, 15:37. Copyright (c) The Contributors
+#  Last modified by David J Turner (turne540@msu.edu) 23/08/2024, 16:43. Copyright (c) The Contributors
 
 # Version: 0.29
 
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(
     # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
     describe_out, rc = runner(GITS, [
         "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always", "--long",
-        "--match", f"{tag_prefix}[[:digit:]]*"
+        "--match", f"v*"  # TODO THIS IS WHERE I BODGED IT - IDENTICAL TO _version.py
     ], cwd=root)
     # --long was added in git-1.5.5
     if describe_out is None: