From 74784458cfa2b40a14843f36d68ad9f60b1be414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cina Arjmand <116003645+CinaArjmand@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Bump versioningit fallback version to 0.63.0dev

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1053246c2440..93a6f1c39da4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ name = "Under the hood:"
 # we hard code the default version to match a development version
 # due to
 # https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/163397#discussioncomment-13888710
-default-version = "0.54.0dev+Unknown"
+default-version = "0.63.0dev+Unknown"
 
 
 [tool.versioningit.format]

From d6ecaeec609e2c64a19572c604f3c2fde415a6c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cina Arjmand <116003645+CinaArjmand@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:01:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add newsfragment for 8672

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood

diff --git a/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood b/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f90e42f7351f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The fallback version reported by ``versioningit`` when QCoDeS is built without git metadata (for example
+from a source archive) has been updated from ``0.54.0dev+Unknown`` to ``0.63.0dev+Unknown`` to match the
+current development version.

From 82892253b181144017ef3d97c2f94e007235f904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cina Arjmand <116003645+CinaArjmand@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:29:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Remove newsfragment for 8672

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood

diff --git a/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood b/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood
deleted file mode 100644
index f90e42f7351f..000000000000
--- a/docs/changes/newsfragments/8672.underthehood
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The fallback version reported by ``versioningit`` when QCoDeS is built without git metadata (for example
-from a source archive) has been updated from ``0.54.0dev+Unknown`` to ``0.63.0dev+Unknown`` to match the
-current development version.