diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0752748..5d821c7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "mlx-cv"
-version = "0.0.3"
+version = "0.0.4"
 description = "MLX-native computer vision for Apple Silicon: open-vocabulary grounding, object detection, depth and camera geometry, segmentation, and video object tracking."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"
diff --git a/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/locateanything-3b-bf16-mlx.md b/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/locateanything-3b-bf16-mlx.md
index f5f12fe..140ed41 100644
--- a/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/locateanything-3b-bf16-mlx.md
+++ b/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/locateanything-3b-bf16-mlx.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ tags:
 Final-layout BF16 weights for running [NVIDIA LocateAnything-3B](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B) with [`mlx-cv`](https://github.com/appautomaton/mlx-cv) on Apple Silicon. BF16 is reduced precision, not integer quantization.
 
 ```bash
-pip install "mlx-cv[mlx,hub]==0.0.3"
+pip install "mlx-cv[mlx,hub]==0.0.4"
 ```
 
 ```python
diff --git a/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/sam3.1-multiplex-bf16-mlx.md b/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/sam3.1-multiplex-bf16-mlx.md
index eddd7f4..0c5963b 100644
--- a/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/sam3.1-multiplex-bf16-mlx.md
+++ b/scripts/hugging_face/model_cards/appautomaton/sam3.1-multiplex-bf16-mlx.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ tags:
 Final-layout BF16 detector and Object Multiplex tracker weights for running Meta SAM 3.1 with [`mlx-cv`](https://github.com/appautomaton/mlx-cv) on Apple Silicon. BF16 is reduced precision, not integer quantization.
 
 ```bash
-pip install "mlx-cv[mlx,hub]==0.0.3"
+pip install "mlx-cv[mlx,hub]==0.0.4"
 ```
 
 ```python
diff --git a/src/mlx_cv/__init__.py b/src/mlx_cv/__init__.py
index 3fe38c2..def9c11 100644
--- a/src/mlx_cv/__init__.py
+++ b/src/mlx_cv/__init__.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     register_model_loader,
 )
 
-__version__ = "0.0.3"
+__version__ = "0.0.4"
 
 __all__ = [
     "__version__",
diff --git a/tests/test_version.py b/tests/test_version.py
index 27acd9c..3c1a647 100644
--- a/tests/test_version.py
+++ b/tests/test_version.py
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
 import mlx_cv
 
 
-def test_version():
-    assert mlx_cv.__version__ == "0.0.3"
+def test_version_matches_distribution_metadata():
+    # The version is written twice: in pyproject.toml, which becomes the
+    # installed distribution metadata, and in __init__.py, which is what
+    # callers read. Asserting a hard-coded literal here only proved that
+    # someone had edited this file; comparing the two catches the release
+    # that bumps one and forgets the other.
+    assert mlx_cv.__version__ == version("mlx-cv")
 
 
 def test_public_surface():
diff --git a/tools/convert_locateanything_checkpoint.py b/tools/convert_locateanything_checkpoint.py
index 14f777a..438ee5a 100644
--- a/tools/convert_locateanything_checkpoint.py
+++ b/tools/convert_locateanything_checkpoint.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
 sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "src"))
 
+from mlx_cv import __version__ as MLX_CV_VERSION
 from mlx_cv.hub import read_safetensors_header, rewrite_safetensors_metadata, sha256_file
 from mlx_cv.models.locateanything import LOCATEANYTHING_CHECKPOINT_METADATA
 
@@ -19,7 +20,9 @@ def main() -> None:
     parser.add_argument("input", type=Path, help="Existing final-layout BF16 Safetensors")
     parser.add_argument("output", type=Path, help="Strict output Safetensors")
     parser.add_argument("--source", type=Path, required=True, help="Source checkpoint for provenance")
-    parser.add_argument("--converter-version", default="mlx-cv-0.0.3")
+    # Derived, not written out: this stamps provenance into the checkpoint, so a
+    # literal here silently mislabels every conversion run after a release bump.
+    parser.add_argument("--converter-version", default=f"mlx-cv-{MLX_CV_VERSION}")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     header = read_safetensors_header(args.input)