I kept shipping version mismatches — so I built a zero-dep CLI that checks all three sources at once

You know the drill. You bump package.json, update the CHANGELOG, run the tests, push the tag — and...

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Developer released verscan, a zero-dep CLI checking three version sources (package.json, CHANGELOG, git tag) in one command—catching mismatches before shipping. For release engineering and CI automation: eliminates the manual metadata sync work teams skip, preventing version-mismatch bugs that waste post-deploy debug cycles.

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You know the drill. You bump package.json, update the CHANGELOG, run the tests, push the tag — and then someone opens a bug report six hours later because the latest entry in CHANGELOG.md still says 1.3.1.

It's not a bug in your code. It's a release metadata mismatch. And it happens way more often than it should.

Why existing tools don't fully cover this

semantic-release is great if you let a bot own your entire release workflow. For solo projects or teams who prefer manual control, it's overkill — and it owns your tag format too.

standard-version is deprecated.

I kept shipping version mismatches — so I built a zero-dep CLI that checks all three sources at once

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