From 6cffadad6de24709c3a37d92f0d811dc71d653be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikeschulte <mwschulte23@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 13:02:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] v0.4.8: video input broadening and wire safety

---
 CHANGELOG.md       |  2 +-
 plexus/__init__.py |  2 +-
 pyproject.toml     |  2 +-
 scripts/release.sh | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/release.sh

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 862345a..360b8f9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [0.4.8] - 2026-05-19 - Video input broadening and wire safety
+## [0.4.9] - 2026-05-19 - Video input broadening and wire safety
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/plexus/__init__.py b/plexus/__init__.py
index 2adc9f9..0f4429d 100644
--- a/plexus/__init__.py
+++ b/plexus/__init__.py
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
 from plexus.client import Plexus, read_mjpeg_frames
 from plexus.ws import WebSocketTransport
 
-__version__ = "0.4.8"
+__version__ = "0.4.9"
 __all__ = ["Plexus", "WebSocketTransport", "read_mjpeg_frames"]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a1aae9e..f4cac30 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "plexus-python"
-version = "0.4.8"
+version = "0.4.9"
 description = "Thin Python SDK for Plexus — send telemetry in one line"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2381a64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Usage: ./scripts/release.sh <version>
+# Example: ./scripts/release.sh 0.4.8
+#
+# Extracts the matching section from CHANGELOG.md and creates a GitHub release.
+# The publish workflow fires automatically and pushes to PyPI.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION=${1:-}
+if [[ -z "$VERSION" ]]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <version>  (e.g. $0 0.4.8)" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Verify the version exists in CHANGELOG.md
+if ! grep -q "## \[$VERSION\]" CHANGELOG.md; then
+    echo "Error: no entry for [$VERSION] found in CHANGELOG.md" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Verify pyproject.toml version matches
+CODE_VERSION=$(python3 -c "
+import re
+with open('pyproject.toml') as f:
+    m = re.search(r'^version\s*=\s*\"(.+?)\"', f.read(), re.MULTILINE)
+    print(m.group(1))
+")
+if [[ "$CODE_VERSION" != "$VERSION" ]]; then
+    echo "Error: pyproject.toml has version $CODE_VERSION, expected $VERSION" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Extract release title suffix (the part after the date, e.g. "Video input broadening and wire safety")
+TITLE_SUFFIX=$(grep "## \[$VERSION\]" CHANGELOG.md | sed 's/.*[0-9] - //')
+
+# Extract just the changelog section for this version
+NOTES=$(python3 -c "
+import re, sys
+txt = open('CHANGELOG.md').read()
+m = re.search(r'## \[$VERSION\].*?(?=\n## \[|\Z)', txt, re.DOTALL)
+if not m:
+    sys.exit(1)
+sys.stdout.write(m.group(0).strip())
+" VERSION="$VERSION")
+
+echo "Creating release v$VERSION — $TITLE_SUFFIX"
+echo "---"
+echo "$NOTES"
+echo "---"
+read -p "Proceed? [y/N] " confirm
+if [[ "$confirm" != "y" && "$confirm" != "Y" ]]; then
+    echo "Aborted." >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+gh release create "v$VERSION" \
+    --title "$VERSION — $TITLE_SUFFIX" \
+    --notes "$NOTES"
+
+echo "Release v$VERSION created. PyPI publish workflow is running."