diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 39347bc0..00f08241 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
           });
    
     - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
       with:
         user: __token__
         password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/versioneer.yml b/.github/workflows/versioneer.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fd7c352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/versioneer.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# See https://github.com/python-versioneer/python-versioneer
+name: "Update Versioneer"
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: Manual Versioneer Run
+        default: test
+        required: false
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 6 1 * *" # 1st day of each month at 06:00 UTC
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - "setup.cfg"
+      - ".github/workflows/versioneer.yml"
+
+jobs:
+  versioneer:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+      - name: Install and run versioneer
+        run: |
+          pip install versioneer
+          versioneer install
+      - name: Blacken code
+        uses: psf/black@stable
+        with:
+          options: "--verbose"
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: versioneer.py
+      - name: Ignore changes in __init__
+        run: |
+          git reset -- mapclassify/__init__.py
+          git checkout -- mapclassify/__init__.py
+      - name: Create PR
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
+        with:
+          title: "Update Versioneer"
+          branch: update-versioneer
+          base: main
+          commit-message: "[Bot] Update Versioneer"
+
+          body: |
+            Automatic update of Versioneer by the `versioneer.yml` workflow.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f000d960..fc6bd3b2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import os
 import sys
-from distutils.command.build_py import build_py
 from io import open
 from os.path import join as pjoin
 from os.path import relpath
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ def setup_package():
     setup(
         name=package,
         version=versioneer.get_version(),
-        cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass({"build_py": build_py}),
+        cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
         description="Classification Schemes for Choropleth Maps.",
         long_description=long_description,
         long_description_content_type="text/markdown",