diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 6c3c7d2..a26b15a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0 # full history - Nerdbank.GitVersioning needs it to compute the version
+          fetch-tags: true # belt-and-braces so a tagged commit's tags are always visible to NBGV
 
       - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v5
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 2d3765d..c7ec9af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true # belt-and-braces so a tagged commit's tags are always visible to NBGV
 
       - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v5
         with:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 45035ba..459d05b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ own version is independent of Monnify's API versioning.
 
 * envelope handling now tolerates endpoints (e.g. paycodes) that omit `requestSuccessful` from their response
 * a non-JSON error body (e.g. a proxy/gateway's own error page for a 502/504) on a failing HTTP status now throws `MonnifyApiException` with the real status code, instead of a misleading `MonnifyDeserializationException` — found via a real sandbox 502 while dogfooding the published package before v1
+* `version.json`'s Nerdbank.GitVersioning baseline had sat at `0.1-alpha` since the very first commit and was never kept in sync with the actual released version. NBGV only reads the version *number* from `version.json` itself - it never derives it from the git tag, even when it correctly detects a public-release tag - so every release published so far (`v0.1.0` through `v0.10.0`) actually shipped to NuGet.org as an unrelated `0.1.x-alpha` prerelease instead of its real tagged version. Fixed by bumping `version.json` to the real current version and wiring `release-please-config.json`'s `extra-files` to keep it in sync automatically on every future release, so this can't drift out of sync again
 
 ## [0.5.0](https://github.com/Monnify/monnify-dotnet-lib/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0) (2026-06-30)
 
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 9053307..36c1975 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
   "packages": {
     ".": {
       "release-type": "simple",
-      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md"
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "extra-files": [
+        {
+          "type": "json",
+          "path": "version.json",
+          "jsonpath": "$.version"
+        }
+      ]
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/version.json b/version.json
index c2ddba2..5c9b7e6 100644
--- a/version.json
+++ b/version.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/Nerdbank.GitVersioning/main/src/NerdBank.GitVersioning/version.schema.json",
-  "version": "0.1-alpha",
+  "version": "0.10.0",
   "publicReleaseRefSpec": [
     "^refs/tags/v\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+$"
   ],