I do the same thing as @talss89.
At one point I was adding a got ignored text file to the project where I would add the version number to keep track of what release I was at, but haven’t found this necessary.
You might find some other ideas by looking at this thread. It’s referring to trellis but the same strategies should apply. How to keep trellis updated when using trellis-cli? - #2 by strarsis