diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 8509398..1f1aa0e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 # See https://pre-commit.com for more information
 # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
-default_install_hook_types:
-  - pre-commit
-  - post-commit
-default_stages:
-  - commit
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
     rev: 23.3.0
@@ -16,11 +11,4 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix, --show-fixes]
-  - repo: local
-    hooks:
-      - id: set-version
-        language: script
-        name: sets __version__ in viv.py
-        entry: ./scripts/bump-dev.sh
-        stages: [post-commit]
-        always_run: true
+
diff --git a/scripts/bump-dev.sh b/scripts/bump-dev.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 86ff4e2..0000000
--- a/scripts/bump-dev.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-TAG=$(git describe --tags --always --dirty=-dev)
-VERSION="${TAG#v}"
-if [ "$NO_VERIFY" ]; then
-	echo 'post-commit hook skipped' 1>&2
-	exit 0
-fi
-if [[ "$(git diff --name-only HEAD HEAD~1)" == *"src/viv/viv.py"* ]]; then
-	sed -i "s/__version__ = \".*\"/__version__ = \"$VERSION\"/g" src/viv/viv.py
-fi
diff --git a/src/viv/viv.py b/src/viv/viv.py
index f4463f4..8cf2cfe 100755
--- a/src/viv/viv.py
+++ b/src/viv/viv.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ from typing import (
 from urllib.error import HTTPError
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
-__version__ = "23.5a1-13-gc1bf007"
+__version__ = "23.5a1-dev"
 STABLE = "23.5a1"