From aa3533066c01b8f6d0153ee045544a1b3811aba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steve.silvester@mongodb.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:30:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] PYTHON-5188 Make version setting a part of the release
 process

---
 .github/workflows/release-python.yml | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
index 21c7ca5f7a..32b017d35b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ name: Release
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
-      version:
-        description: "The new version to set"
-        required: true
       following_version:
         description: "The post (dev) version to set"
         required: true
@@ -26,7 +23,6 @@ env:
   # to 'false' when the input is set to 'false'.
   DRY_RUN: ${{ ! contains(inputs.dry_run, 'false') }}
   FOLLOWING_VERSION: ${{ inputs.following_version || '' }}
-  VERSION: ${{ inputs.version || '10.10.10.10' }}
 
 defaults:
   run:

From 94f7cd9d24919da7215d6cf2d4dd2c2f8293f48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steve.silvester@mongodb.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:32:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] remove other usages

---
 .github/workflows/release-python.yml | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
index 32b017d35b..86107b7230 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ jobs:
       - uses: mongodb-labs/drivers-github-tools/python/pre-publish@v2
         id: pre-publish
         with:
-          version: ${{ env.VERSION }}
           dry_run: ${{ env.DRY_RUN }}
 
   build-dist:
@@ -114,7 +113,6 @@ jobs:
           artifactory_username: ${{ vars.ARTIFACTORY_USERNAME }}
       - uses: mongodb-labs/drivers-github-tools/python/post-publish@v2
         with:
-          version: ${{ env.VERSION }}
           following_version: ${{ env.FOLLOWING_VERSION }}
           product_name: ${{ env.PRODUCT_NAME }}
           evergreen_project: ${{ env.EVERGREEN_PROJECT }}

From 69048476f4740d2674555225d95043b25befc906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steve.silvester@mongodb.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:34:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] make following version optional

---
 .github/workflows/release-python.yml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
index 86107b7230..a684ff79b0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-python.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ on:
     inputs:
       following_version:
         description: "The post (dev) version to set"
-        required: true
       dry_run:
         description: "Dry Run?"
         default: false