diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6047b61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Publish package
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+          architecture: 'x64'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install setuptools wheel twine
+
+      - name: Build source and binary distribution package
+        run: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+        env:
+          PACKAGE_VERSION: ${{ github.ref }}
+
+      - name: Check distribution package
+        run: twine check dist/*
+
+      - name: Publish distribution package
+        run: twine upload dist/*
+        env:
+          TWINE_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.PYPI_REPOSITORY }}
+          TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
+          TWINE_NON_INTERACTIVE: yes
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diff --git a/anexia_monitoring/__version__.py b/anexia_monitoring/__version__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 268300d..0000000
--- a/anexia_monitoring/__version__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-__version__ = "1.2.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cfe6374..84d4dd4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@
 with io.open(os.path.join(current_path, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
     long_description = '\n' + f.read()
 
-# Load the package's __version__.py module as a dictionary.
-about = {}
-with open(os.path.join(current_path, PACKAGE_PATH, '__version__.py')) as f:
-    exec(f.read(), about)
 
 class PublishCommand(Command):
     """Support setup.py publish."""
@@ -83,7 +79,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name=NAME,
-    version=about['__version__'],
+    version=os.getenv('PACKAGE_VERSION', '0.0.0').replace('refs/tags/', ''),
     packages=find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
     license=LICENSE,