From a5259d7e0114df1084694ef3d65de36ae3de86d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kori Kuzma <korikuzma@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:26:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add CORE_VERSION (gks-core)

close #646
---
 src/ga4gh/core/__init__.py | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ga4gh/core/__init__.py b/src/ga4gh/core/__init__.py
index 1b219d1a..5b09f6cd 100644
--- a/src/ga4gh/core/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ga4gh/core/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,17 @@
 )
 from ga4gh.core.pydantic import is_curie_type, is_pydantic_instance, pydantic_copy
 
+try:
+    __version__ = version(__name__)
+except PackageNotFoundError:  # pragma: nocover
+    __version__ = "unknown"
+finally:
+    del version, PackageNotFoundError
+
+CORE_VERSION = "1.1.0"
+
 __all__ = [
+    "CORE_VERSION",
     "CURIE_NAMESPACE",
     "CURIE_SEP",
     "GA4GH_DIGEST_REGEXP",
@@ -42,10 +52,3 @@
     "sha512t24u",
     "use_ga4gh_compute_identifier_when",
 ]
-
-try:
-    __version__ = version(__name__)
-except PackageNotFoundError:  # pragma: nocover
-    __version__ = "unknown"
-finally:
-    del version, PackageNotFoundError