bumped version for release

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Release notes
 
 
-### head
+### 2025.8.22
 
 Features:
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 - Now using glibc 2.17 in conda builds (was using the host)
 - Fixed shifted pixels in clusters close to the edge of a frame
 
-### 2025.07.18
+### 2025.7.18
 
 Features:
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 - Removed unused file: ClusterFile.cpp 
 
 
-### 2025.05.22
+### 2025.5.22
 
 Features:
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2025.7.18
+2025.8.22

update_version.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Script to update VERSION file with semantic versioning if provided as an argumen
 import sys
 import os
 import re
+from datetime import datetime
 
 from packaging.version import Version, InvalidVersion
 
@@ -26,9 +27,9 @@ def get_version():
 
     # Check at least one argument is passed
     if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-        return "0.0.0"
-
-    version = sys.argv[1]
+        version =   datetime.today().strftime('%Y.%-m.%-d')
+    else: 
+        version = sys.argv[1]
 
     try:
         v = Version(version)  # normalize check if version follows PEP 440 specification