diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
index ee28bee..044764f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ jobs:
         pip install
         build
         --user
+    - name: Get history and tags for SCM versioning to work
+      run: |
+        git branch
+        git fetch --prune --unshallow
+        git fetch --depth=1 origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
     - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
       run: python3 -m build
     - name: Store the distribution packages
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9f82766..3f6a7cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ dynamic = [ 'version']
 [tool.hatch.version]
 source = 'vcs'
 
+[tool.hatch.version.raw-options]
+local_scheme = "no-local-version"  # otherwise the non-tagged version is not accepted by testpypi
+
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
   "mkdocstrings[python]",