Fix issue to versioning

Author: safaricd

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
+          # Check out the tag that triggered the workflow so hatch-vcs sees exact tag
+          ref: ${{ github.ref }}
           # Required for hatch-vcs to detect version from tags
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -45,6 +47,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run tests
         run: uv run pytest
 
+      - name: Verify we're on the tag (so hatch-vcs uses tag version)
+        run: |
+          git describe --exact-match HEAD || (echo "::error::HEAD is not exactly on tag ${{ github.ref_name }}"; exit 1)
+          echo "Building version from tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}"
+
       - name: Clean previous builds
         run: git clean -xfd dist build *.egg-info || true