diff --git a/.goreleaser.yaml b/.goreleaser.yaml
index e5e3581..48c06ae 100644
--- a/.goreleaser.yaml
+++ b/.goreleaser.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-# This is an example .goreleaser.yml file with some sensible defaults.
-# Make sure to check the documentation at https://goreleaser.com
 before:
   hooks:
-    # You may remove this if you don't use go modules.
+    # tag and push
+    - ./release_tag.pl
+    # clean up/install modules
     - go mod tidy
-    # you may remove this if you don't need go generate
-    - go generate ./...
 builds:
   - main: cmd/linkwallet/linkwallet.go
     env:
diff --git a/release_tag.pl b/release_tag.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d94813e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_tag.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+open my $fh, "<", "version/version.go" || die "oops";
+while (my $l =  <$fh>) {
+    if ($l =~ m/const Tag = "(.+)"/) {
+        $tag = $1;
+        system ('git', 'tag', '-a', $tag, '-m', "version $tag for release") ;
+        die "could not tag?\n" if $? != 0;
+        system ('git', 'push', 'origin', $tag);
+        die "could not push tag?\n" if $? != 0;
+    }
+}
+
+die "no version in version/version.go?\n";
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