diff --git a/scripts/publish_prod.sh b/scripts/publish_prod.sh
index a1bd5596..fe7bda5d 100755
--- a/scripts/publish_prod.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish_prod.sh
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ echo "Publishing to https://pypi.org/project/datadog-lambda/"
 
 echo
 echo 'Publishing updates to github'
+git commit pyproject.toml -m "Bump version to ${$NEW_VERSION}"
 git push origin main
 git tag "v$LAYER_VERSION"
 git push origin "refs/tags/v$LAYER_VERSION"