diff --git a/node-src/lib/parseArguments.ts b/node-src/lib/parseArguments.ts
index 4995abcd2..092b4e8da 100644
--- a/node-src/lib/parseArguments.ts
+++ b/node-src/lib/parseArguments.ts
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ export default function parseArguments(argv: string[]) {
       argv,
       booleanDefault: undefined,
       description: false,
+      version: pkg.version,
       flags: {
         // Required options
         projectToken: { type: 'string', alias: 't', isMultiple: true },
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7daf4bdd7..16517b38b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
     "lint": "yarn lint:js bin-src node-src test-stories ./isChromatic.js ./isChromatic.mjs",
     "lint:js": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production eslint --cache --cache-location=.cache/eslint --report-unused-disable-directives",
     "lint:package": "sort-package-json",
-    "release": "yarn run build && auto shipit",
+    "release": "./scripts/versionAndBuild.mjs && auto shipit",
     "prepack": "clean-package",
     "postpack": "clean-package restore",
     "publish-action": "./scripts/publish-action.mjs",
diff --git a/scripts/versionAndBuild.mjs b/scripts/versionAndBuild.mjs
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..328284923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/versionAndBuild.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+import { $ } from 'execa';
+
+async function main() {
+  const { stdout: status } = await $`git status --porcelain`;
+  if (status) {
+    console.error(`❗️ Working directory is not clean:\n${status}`);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const { stdout: nextVersion } = await $`auto shipit --dry-run --quiet`;
+
+  console.info(`📌 Temporarily bumping version to '${nextVersion}' for build step`);
+  await $`npm --no-git-tag-version version ${nextVersion}`;
+
+  console.info('📦 Building with new version');
+  await $({ stdio: 'inherit' })`yarn build`;
+
+  console.info('🧹 Resetting changes to let `auto` do its thing');
+  await $`git reset --hard`;
+
+  console.info('✅ Build with new version completed');
+}
+
+main();