diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index c1e439cb863..965ad52fb3d 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ hail/.ensime.cache.d/
 hail/.ensime_cache.d/
 hail/.ensime_cache/
 hail/build/
+!hail/build/deploy/dist/*.whl
 hail/hail.iml
 hail/hail.log
 hail/out/
@@ -26,4 +27,5 @@ hail/src/main/c/libsimdpp-2.0-rc2.tar.gz
 hail/src/main/resources/build-info.properties
 hail/src/test/resources/example.v11.bgen.idx
 hail/src/test/resources/random.bgen.idx
+benchmark/python/build/
 ci/repos
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d4003d8505f..943226866e9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ install-dev-requirements:
 	python3 -m pip install \
 		-r hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt \
 		-r hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt \
+		-r benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt \
 		-r gear/pinned-requirements.txt \
 		-r web_common/pinned-requirements.txt \
 		-r batch/pinned-requirements.txt \
@@ -112,6 +113,9 @@ hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt: hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
 hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt: hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
 	./generate-linux-pip-lockfile.sh hail/python/dev
 
+benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt: benchmark/python/requirements.txt
+	./generate-linux-pip-lockfile.sh benchmark/python
+
 gear/pinned-requirements.txt: hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt gear/requirements.txt
 	./generate-linux-pip-lockfile.sh gear
 
@@ -128,6 +132,7 @@ ci/pinned-requirements.txt: web_common/pinned-requirements.txt ci/requirements.t
 generate-pip-lockfiles: hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
 generate-pip-lockfiles: hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
 generate-pip-lockfiles: hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+generate-pip-lockfiles: benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt
 generate-pip-lockfiles: gear/pinned-requirements.txt
 generate-pip-lockfiles: web_common/pinned-requirements.txt
 generate-pip-lockfiles: batch/pinned-requirements.txt
diff --git a/batch/pinned-requirements.txt b/batch/pinned-requirements.txt
index ebf2ae519db..90417efb954 100644
--- a/batch/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/batch/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ multidict==6.0.4
     #   yarl
 numpy==1.26.1
     # via
-    #   -c hail/batch/../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   -c hail/batch/../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   pandas
 packaging==23.2
diff --git a/benchmark/Dockerfile b/benchmark/Dockerfile
index 720ff9dc0d7..dd89bf7f169 100644
--- a/benchmark/Dockerfile
+++ b/benchmark/Dockerfile
@@ -1,43 +1,23 @@
-FROM --platform=linux/amd64 {{ global.docker_root_image }}
+ARG HAIL_UBUNTU
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 ${HAIL_UBUNTU}
 
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+RUN hail-apt-get-install \
+    liblapack3 \
+    openjdk-11-jre-headless \
+    wget
 
-ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-RUN apt-get update && \
-  apt-get -y install \
-    git \
-    htop \
-    unzip bzip2 zip tar \
-    wget curl \
-    rsync \
-    emacs-nox \
-    mysql-client \
-    xsltproc pandoc \
-    jq \
-    python \
-    python3.9 python3-pip python3.9-dev \
-    liblapack3 && \
-  update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.9 1 && \
-  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+COPY benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt benchmark-requirements.txt
+COPY hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt hail-requirements.txt
+RUN hail-pip-install \
+    -r benchmark-requirements.txt \
+    -r hail-requirements.txt
 
-RUN wget -O - https://packages.adoptium.net/artifactory/api/gpg/key/public | apt-key add - && \
-  echo "deb https://packages.adoptium.net/artifactory/deb $(awk -F= '/^VERSION_CODENAME/{print$2}' /etc/os-release) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/adoptium.list && \
-  apt update && \
-  apt -y install temurin-11-jdk
-
-COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
-  python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir setuptools && \
-  python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && \
-  python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir aiomysql && \
-  python3 -m pip check
+ARG BENCHMARK_WHEEL
+COPY ${BENCHMARK_WHEEL} .
 
 ARG HAIL_WHEEL
-COPY $HAIL_WHEEL .
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir --quiet $HAIL_WHEEL && \
-  python3 -m pip check
+COPY ${HAIL_WHEEL} .
 
-ARG BENCHMARK_WHEEL
-COPY $BENCHMARK_WHEEL .
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir --quiet $BENCHMARK_WHEEL && \
-  python3 -m pip check
+RUN hail-pip-install --no-deps --quiet \
+    $(basename ${BENCHMARK_WHEEL}) \
+    $(basename ${HAIL_WHEEL})
diff --git a/benchmark/Makefile b/benchmark/Makefile
index 5c9d2dc5333..42693731349 100644
--- a/benchmark/Makefile
+++ b/benchmark/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
 include ../config.mk
-
-ifndef HAIL_WHEEL
-$(error HAIL_WHEEL is not set!)
-endif
-
-ifndef HAIL_PIP_VERSION
-$(error HAIL_PIP_VERSION is not set!)
-endif
+include ../hail/version.mk
 
 SHORT_REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
 
@@ -14,10 +7,13 @@ HAIL_PYTHON3 ?= python3
 PIP := $(HAIL_PYTHON3) -m pip
 
 BENCHMARK_WHEEL := python/dist/benchmark_hail-$(HAIL_PIP_VERSION)-py3-none-any.whl
-.PHONY: wheel
-wheel:
+$(BENCHMARK_WHEEL):	$(shell git ls-files python)
+	echo $^
 	cd python/ && HAIL_BENCHMARK_VERSION=$(HAIL_PIP_VERSION) $(HAIL_PYTHON3) setup.py -q bdist_wheel
 
+.PHONY: wheel
+wheel: $(BENCHMARK_WHEEL)
+
 .PHONY: install
 install: wheel
 	-$(PIP) uninstall -y benchmark_hail
@@ -25,32 +21,27 @@ install: wheel
 
 .PHONY: cleanup_image
 cleanup_image:
-	rm -f image_sha
-	rm -f pushed_image
+	rm -f image_sha pushed_image
 
 BENCHMARK_DOCKER_TAG ?= $(shell whoami)
 BECNHMARK_IMAGE_REPOSITORY ?= us-docker.pkg.dev/broad-ctsa/hail-benchmarks
 BENCHMARK_REPO_BASE = $(BECNHMARK_IMAGE_REPOSITORY)/$(BENCHMARK_DOCKER_TAG)
-DOCKER_ROOT_IMAGE := ubuntu:22.04
 
-ifndef HAIL_WHEEL
-image_sha:
-	@echo the image_sha target requires the HAIL_WHEEL variable to be set.
-	exit 1
-else
-image_sha: wheel cleanup_image
-	cp $(HAIL_WHEEL) .
-	cp $(BENCHMARK_WHEEL) .
-	# it's possible that the HAIL_WHEEL installs different dependencies, but this generally creates less work for docker
-	cp ../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt requirements.txt
-	python3 ../ci/jinja2_render.py '{"global":{"docker_root_image":"$(DOCKER_ROOT_IMAGE)"}}' Dockerfile Dockerfile.out
-	docker build --platform linux/amd64 -f Dockerfile.out -t $(BENCHMARK_DOCKER_TAG) . --build-arg HAIL_WHEEL=$(notdir $(HAIL_WHEEL)) --build-arg BENCHMARK_WHEEL=$(notdir $(BENCHMARK_WHEEL))
+.PHONY: hail-ubuntu-image
+hail-ubuntu-image:
+	$(MAKE) -C ../ $@
+
+.PHONY: hail-wheel
+hail-wheel:
+	$(MAKE) -C ../hail wheel
+
+image_sha: hail-ubuntu-image wheel hail-wheel cleanup_image
+	docker build --platform linux/amd64 -f Dockerfile -t $(BENCHMARK_DOCKER_TAG) ../ \
+		--build-arg HAIL_UBUNTU=$(shell cat ../hail-ubuntu-image) \
+		--build-arg BENCHMARK_WHEEL=benchmark/$(BENCHMARK_WHEEL) \
+		--build-arg HAIL_WHEEL=hail/build/deploy/dist/hail-$(HAIL_PIP_VERSION)-py3-none-any.whl
 	@printf $$(docker images -q --no-trunc $(BENCHMARK_DOCKER_TAG) | sed -e 's,[^:]*:,,') > image_sha
 	@echo Image sha is `cat image_sha`
-	rm $(notdir $(HAIL_WHEEL))
-	rm $(notdir $(BENCHMARK_WHEEL))
-	rm requirements.txt
-endif
 
 pushed_image: image_sha
 	@printf $(BENCHMARK_REPO_BASE):`cat image_sha` > pushed_image
@@ -62,15 +53,12 @@ BENCHMARK_ITERS ?= 3
 BENCHMARK_REPLICATES ?= 5
 HAIL_WHEEL_DESCRIPTOR ?= $(HAIL_PIP_VERSION)-$(SHORT_REVISION)
 BENCHMARK_BUCKET ?= gs://hail-benchmarks-2
-.PHONY: benchmark
-benchmark: pushed_image install
+.PHONY: submit
+submit: pushed_image install
 	@echo Using pushed image `cat pushed_image`
 	$(HAIL_PYTHON3) scripts/benchmark_in_batch.py `cat pushed_image` $(BENCHMARK_BUCKET)/$(shell whoami) $(HAIL_WHEEL_DESCRIPTOR) $(BENCHMARK_REPLICATES) $(BENCHMARK_ITERS)
 
-clean:
+clean: cleanup_image
 	rm -rf python/dist/*
 	rm -rf python/build/*
-	rm -f $(notdir $(HAIL_WHEEL))
 	rm -f $(notdir $(BENCHMARK_WHEEL))
-	rm -f requirements.txt
-	rm -f hailtop_requirements.txt
diff --git a/benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt b/benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a15b1905dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.9
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile --output-file=hail/benchmark/python/pinned-requirements.txt hail/benchmark/python/requirements.txt
+#
+contourpy==1.1.1
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   matplotlib
+cycler==0.12.1
+    # via matplotlib
+fonttools==4.43.1
+    # via matplotlib
+importlib-resources==6.1.0
+    # via matplotlib
+kiwisolver==1.4.5
+    # via matplotlib
+matplotlib==3.8.0
+    # via -r hail/benchmark/python/requirements.txt
+numpy==1.26.1
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   contourpy
+    #   matplotlib
+packaging==23.2
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   matplotlib
+pillow==10.1.0
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   matplotlib
+pyparsing==3.1.1
+    # via matplotlib
+python-dateutil==2.8.2
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   matplotlib
+six==1.16.0
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   python-dateutil
+zipp==3.17.0
+    # via
+    #   -c hail/benchmark/python/../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+    #   importlib-resources
diff --git a/benchmark/python/requirements.txt b/benchmark/python/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..85a2faae323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/python/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-c ../../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+# dev is installed in the batch tests
+-c ../../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+
+matplotlib>=3.5,<4
diff --git a/build.yaml b/build.yaml
index d7975c7c3cd..da9a1252006 100644
--- a/build.yaml
+++ b/build.yaml
@@ -2803,6 +2803,7 @@ steps:
       cp -R /io/repo/hail/python ./hail/
       cp /io/repo/hail/Makefile ./hail/
       cp /io/repo/hail/env_var.mk ./hail/
+      cp /io/repo/hail/version.mk ./hail/
       cp -R /io/repo/web_common ./
       cp /io/repo/hail/python/setup-hailtop.py ./hail/python/
 
diff --git a/ci/pinned-requirements.txt b/ci/pinned-requirements.txt
index 71d57623823..0a5dccb0c44 100644
--- a/ci/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/ci/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ click==8.1.7
     #   -c hail/ci/../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   -c hail/ci/../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   zulip
-cryptography==41.0.4
+cryptography==41.0.5
     # via
     #   -c hail/ci/../hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   pyjwt
diff --git a/gear/pinned-requirements.txt b/gear/pinned-requirements.txt
index ab6c692a71d..1dbde220066 100644
--- a/gear/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/gear/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ frozenlist==1.4.0
     #   aiosignal
 google-api-core==2.12.0
     # via google-api-python-client
-google-api-python-client==2.104.0
+google-api-python-client==2.105.0
     # via google-cloud-profiler
 google-auth==2.23.3
     # via
@@ -161,9 +161,7 @@ pymysql==1.1.0
     #   -r hail/gear/requirements.txt
     #   aiomysql
 pyparsing==3.1.1
-    # via
-    #   -c hail/gear/../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
-    #   httplib2
+    # via httplib2
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
     # via
     #   -c hail/gear/../hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
diff --git a/hail/Makefile b/hail/Makefile
index b83e83b73b2..2b797d53f3e 100644
--- a/hail/Makefile
+++ b/hail/Makefile
@@ -3,34 +3,12 @@
 HAIL_HAIL_DIR := $(shell dirname $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
 
 include env_var.mk
+include version.mk
 
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := shadowJar
 MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules
 .SUFFIXES:
 
-REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse HEAD)
-SHORT_REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
-BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
-SCALA_VERSION ?= 2.12.15
-SPARK_VERSION ?= 3.3.0
-HAIL_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION := 0.2
-HAIL_PATCH_VERSION := 124
-HAIL_PIP_VERSION := $(HAIL_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION).$(HAIL_PATCH_VERSION)
-HAIL_VERSION := $(HAIL_PIP_VERSION)-$(SHORT_REVISION)
-ELASTIC_MAJOR_VERSION ?= 7
-
-ifndef REVISION
-$(error "git rev-parse HEAD" failed to produce output)
-endif
-
-ifndef SHORT_REVISION
-$(error "git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD" failed to produce output)
-endif
-
-ifndef BRANCH
-$(error "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" failed to produce output)
-endif
-
 $(eval $(call ENV_VAR,REVISION))
 $(eval $(call ENV_VAR,SHORT_REVISION))
 $(eval $(call ENV_VAR,BRANCH))
@@ -439,14 +417,6 @@ test-dataproc-38: install-hailctl
 deploy: test-dataproc $(WHEEL)
 	bash scripts/deploy.sh $(HAIL_PIP_VERSION) $(HAIL_VERSION) $(REVISION) $(DEPLOY_REMOTE) $(WHEEL) $(GITHUB_OAUTH_HEADER_FILE) $(HAIL_GENETICS_HAIL_IMAGE) $(HAIL_GENETICS_HAIL_IMAGE_PY_3_10) $(HAIL_GENETICS_HAIL_IMAGE_PY_3_11) $(HAIL_GENETICS_HAILTOP_IMAGE) $(HAIL_GENETICS_VEP_GRCH37_85_IMAGE) $(HAIL_GENETICS_VEP_GRCH38_95_IMAGE) $(WHEEL_FOR_AZURE) $(WEBSITE_TAR) $(GCP_PROJECT) $(HAIL_HAIL_DIR)/../infra/gcp-broad/gcp-ar-cleanup-policy.txt
 
-.PHONY: benchmark
-benchmark: $(WHEEL)
-	HAIL_WHEEL=../hail/$(WHEEL) HAIL_PIP_VERSION=$(HAIL_PIP_VERSION) $(MAKE) -C ../benchmark benchmark
-
-.PHONY: install-benchmark
-install-benchmark:
-	HAIL_WHEEL=DUMMY HAIL_PIP_VERSION=$(HAIL_PIP_VERSION) $(MAKE) -C ../benchmark install
-
 python/hail/docs/change_log.rst: python/hail/docs/change_log.md
 	sed -E "s/\(hail\#([0-9]+)\)/(\[#\1](https:\/\/github.com\/hail-is\/hail\/pull\/\1))/g" \
 	  < $< \
diff --git a/hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt b/hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
index 76757221dc5..0c943559c6c 100644
--- a/hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/hail/python/dev/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ attrs==23.1.0
     #   curlylint
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
-babel==2.13.0
+babel==2.13.1
     # via
     #   jupyterlab-server
     #   sphinx
@@ -62,14 +62,8 @@ comm==0.1.4
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   ipywidgets
-contourpy==1.1.1
-    # via
-    #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
-    #   matplotlib
 curlylint==0.13.1
     # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
-cycler==0.12.1
-    # via matplotlib
 debugpy==1.8.0
     # via ipykernel
 decorator==4.4.2
@@ -102,8 +96,6 @@ fastjsonschema==2.18.1
     # via nbformat
 filelock==3.12.4
     # via virtualenv
-fonttools==4.43.1
-    # via matplotlib
 fqdn==1.5.1
     # via jsonschema
 fswatch==0.1.1
@@ -126,8 +118,6 @@ importlib-metadata==6.8.0
     #   jupyterlab-server
     #   nbconvert
     #   sphinx
-importlib-resources==6.1.0
-    # via matplotlib
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
 ipykernel==6.25.2
@@ -216,8 +206,6 @@ jupyterlab-server==2.25.0
     #   notebook
 jupyterlab-widgets==3.0.9
     # via ipywidgets
-kiwisolver==1.4.5
-    # via matplotlib
 lazy-object-proxy==1.9.0
     # via astroid
 markupsafe==2.1.3
@@ -225,8 +213,6 @@ markupsafe==2.1.3
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
     #   jinja2
     #   nbconvert
-matplotlib==3.8.0
-    # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
 matplotlib-inline==0.1.6
     # via
     #   ipykernel
@@ -266,11 +252,6 @@ notebook-shim==0.2.3
     # via
     #   jupyterlab
     #   notebook
-numpy==1.26.1
-    # via
-    #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
-    #   contourpy
-    #   matplotlib
 overrides==7.4.0
     # via jupyter-server
 packaging==23.2
@@ -280,7 +261,6 @@ packaging==23.2
     #   jupyter-server
     #   jupyterlab
     #   jupyterlab-server
-    #   matplotlib
     #   nbconvert
     #   pytest
     #   qtconsole
@@ -304,7 +284,6 @@ pillow==10.1.0
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
     #   -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
-    #   matplotlib
 platformdirs==3.11.0
     # via
     #   black
@@ -345,8 +324,6 @@ pygments==2.16.1
     #   sphinx
 pylint==2.17.7
     # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
-pyparsing==3.1.1
-    # via matplotlib
 pyright==1.1.332
     # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
 pytest==7.4.2
@@ -380,7 +357,6 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
     #   arrow
     #   jupyter-client
-    #   matplotlib
 python-json-logger==2.0.7
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -399,7 +375,7 @@ pyzmq==25.1.1
     #   qtconsole
 qtconsole==5.4.4
     # via jupyter
-qtpy==2.4.0
+qtpy==2.4.1
     # via qtconsole
 referencing==0.30.2
     # via
@@ -423,7 +399,7 @@ rpds-py==0.10.6
     # via
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
-ruff==0.1.1
+ruff==0.1.2
     # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
 send2trash==1.8.2
     # via jupyter-server
@@ -558,7 +534,7 @@ urllib3==1.26.18
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
     #   requests
-virtualenv==20.24.5
+virtualenv==20.24.6
     # via pre-commit
 wcwidth==0.2.8
     # via prompt-toolkit
@@ -570,6 +546,8 @@ webencodings==0.5.1
     #   tinycss2
 websocket-client==1.6.4
     # via jupyter-server
+wheel==0.41.2
+    # via -r hail/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
 widgetsnbextension==4.0.9
     # via ipywidgets
 wrapt==1.15.0
@@ -577,9 +555,7 @@ wrapt==1.15.0
     #   -c hail/hail/python/dev/../pinned-requirements.txt
     #   astroid
 zipp==3.17.0
-    # via
-    #   importlib-metadata
-    #   importlib-resources
+    # via importlib-metadata
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # setuptools
diff --git a/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt b/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
index 568f555f856..821f00946a2 100644
--- a/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
+++ b/hail/python/dev/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ sphinx_rtd_theme>=1.0.0,<2
 jupyter>=1.0.0,<2
 sphinxcontrib.katex>=0.9.0,<1
 fswatch>=0.1.1,<1
-matplotlib>=3.5,<4
+wheel>=0.41,<0.42
 
 # library type stubs
 types-Deprecated
diff --git a/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt b/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
index 4926a43aee5..fe82b17a3b9 100644
--- a/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ azure-mgmt-storage==20.1.0
     # via -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
 azure-storage-blob==12.18.3
     # via -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
-boto3==1.28.68
+boto3==1.28.69
     # via -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
-botocore==1.31.68
+botocore==1.31.69
     # via
     #   -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
     #   boto3
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ click==8.1.7
     # via typer
 commonmark==0.9.1
     # via rich
-cryptography==41.0.4
+cryptography==41.0.5
     # via
     #   azure-identity
     #   azure-storage-blob
diff --git a/hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt b/hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
index cc6b4fc7a79..c50706333a6 100644
--- a/hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
+++ b/hail/python/pinned-requirements.txt
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ azure-storage-blob==12.18.3
     #   -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
 bokeh==3.3.0
     # via -r hail/hail/python/requirements.txt
-boto3==1.28.68
+boto3==1.28.69
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
-botocore==1.31.68
+botocore==1.31.69
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   -r hail/hail/python/hailtop/requirements.txt
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ commonmark==0.9.1
     #   rich
 contourpy==1.1.1
     # via bokeh
-cryptography==41.0.4
+cryptography==41.0.5
     # via
     #   -c hail/hail/python/hailtop/pinned-requirements.txt
     #   azure-identity
diff --git a/hail/version.mk b/hail/version.mk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a7995f9dc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hail/version.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse HEAD)
+ifndef REVISION
+$(error "git rev-parse HEAD" failed to produce output)
+endif
+
+SHORT_REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
+ifndef SHORT_REVISION
+$(error "git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD" failed to produce output)
+endif
+
+BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+ifndef BRANCH
+$(error "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" failed to produce output)
+endif
+
+SCALA_VERSION ?= 2.12.15
+SPARK_VERSION ?= 3.3.0
+HAIL_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION := 0.2
+HAIL_PATCH_VERSION := 124
+HAIL_PIP_VERSION := $(HAIL_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION).$(HAIL_PATCH_VERSION)
+HAIL_VERSION := $(HAIL_PIP_VERSION)-$(SHORT_REVISION)
+ELASTIC_MAJOR_VERSION ?= 7