diff --git a/.github/workflows/pipy_release.yml b/.github/workflows/pipy_release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..929d9ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pipy_release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to PyPI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+     - '*' # Trigger on any tagging event
+
+jobs:
+  build-n-publish:
+    name: Build and publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to PyPI
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3  # Updated to a specific version of the checkout action
+      with:
+        ref: main  # Ensure it checks out the main branch
+    - name: Set up Python 3.8
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.8'
+    - name: Install setuptools and wheel
+      run: python -m pip install setuptools wheel
+    - 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
+      run: >-
+        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+    - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+      with:
+        password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 25a4f6d..cf08f8d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from transformers_cfg import __version__
 
 setup(
     name="transformers_cfg",
-    version=__version__,
+    version="{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}",
     author="EPFL-dlab",
     author_email="saibo.geng@epfl.ch",
     description="Extension of Transformers library for Context-Free Grammar Constrained Decoding with EBNF grammars",