diff --git a/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..509ac3b4d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/bump-version.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+name: 📦 Bump Workflow
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      new_version:
+        description: |
+          The version to update to (eg: 2.6.0 or 2.6.0-dev do not include `v`).
+        required: true 
+jobs:
+
+  apply-version-bump:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest 
+    name: Apply Version Bump
+    steps:
+        - name: Checkout 
+          uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+        - name: Apply Bump
+          shell: bash
+          run: |
+            bash ./scripts/bump_version.sh ${{ github.event.inputs.new_version }}
+
+        - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        - name: Create Pull Request
+          uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
+          with: 
+            title: "Release Engineering: Version bump to ${{ github.event.inputs.new_version }}."
+            body: "This PR updates codeql-coding-standards to version ${{ github.event.inputs.new_version }}."
+            commit-message: "Version bump to ${{ github.event.inputs.new_version }}."
+            team-reviewers: github/codeql-coding-standards
+            delete-branch: true
+            branch: "codeql/version-bump-${{ github.event.inputs.new_version }}"
diff --git a/scripts/release/create_draft_release.sh b/scripts/release/create_draft_release.sh
index 9594c57290..fa3000d450 100755
--- a/scripts/release/create_draft_release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release/create_draft_release.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@ python3 scripts/release/generate_release_notes.py > "$TEMP_DIR/release_notes_$VE
 python3 scripts/release/create_supported_rules_list.py > "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.md"
 python3 scripts/release/create_supported_rules_list.py --csv > "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.csv"
 
-gh release create "v$VERSION" -d --target "$BRANCH" -F "$TEMP_DIR/release_notes_$VERSION.md" -t "v$VERSION" "$TEMP_DIR/$CODE_SCANNING_VERSIONED_ARTIFACT_NAME" "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.md" "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.csv" docs/user_manual.md
+echo "Copy Docs to Artifact Directory"
+cp docs/user_manual.md "$TEMP_DIR/user_manual_$VERSION.md"
+
+echo "Generating Checksums"
+sha256sum $TEMP_DIR/* > "$TEMP_DIR/checksums.txt"
+
+gh release create "v$VERSION" -d --target "$BRANCH" -F "$TEMP_DIR/release_notes_$VERSION.md" -t "v$VERSION" "$TEMP_DIR/$CODE_SCANNING_VERSIONED_ARTIFACT_NAME" "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.md" "$TEMP_DIR/checksums.txt" "$TEMP_DIR/supported_rules_list_$VERSION.csv" "$TEMP_DIR/user_manual_$VERSION.md"
 
 curl \
   -X POST \