diff --git a/.github/template_gitref b/.github/template_gitref
index d03ba7e1..cd7b2753 100644
--- a/.github/template_gitref
+++ b/.github/template_gitref
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2021.08.26-249-gca8f021
+2021.08.26-250-gf4315cf
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 7873a301..85224a88 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ on:
     inputs:
       release:
         description: "Release tag (e.g. 3.2.1)"
-        required: true
       before_script:
         description: |
           Bash code to run before bindings and docs are built. This should only be used when re-running
@@ -287,9 +286,5 @@ jobs:
           echo "GH Issues $GH_ISSUES"
           python .ci/scripts/update_github.py
 
-      - name: Tweet
-        continue-on-error: true
-        run: python .ci/scripts/tweet.py ${{ github.event.inputs.release }}
-
       - name: Create release on GitHub
         run: bash .github/workflows/scripts/create_release_from_tag.sh ${{ github.event.inputs.release }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/release.py b/.github/workflows/scripts/release.py
index c7b853aa..04d2e0d9 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/release.py
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/release.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import os
 import textwrap
 import requests
+import subprocess
 
 from git import Repo
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -152,14 +153,8 @@ def main():
     release_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
     plugin_path = release_path.split("/.github")[0]
 
-    version = None
-    with open(f"{plugin_path}/setup.py") as fp:
-        for line in fp.readlines():
-            if "version=" in line:
-                version = re.split("\"|'", line)[1]
-        if not version:
-            raise RuntimeError("Could not detect existing version ... aborting.")
-    release_version = version.replace(".dev", "")
+    output = subprocess.check_output(["bump2version", "--dry-run", "--list", "release"])
+    release_version = re.findall(r"\nnew_version=([0-9.]*)\n", output.decode())[0]
 
     print(f"\n\nRepo path: {plugin_path}")
     repo = Repo(plugin_path)