diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index c9f5c4a2..e2ba5670 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -26,11 +26,16 @@ Tasks for Tailbone
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals, absolute_import
 
+import os
 import shutil
 
 from invoke import task
 
 
+here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+exec(open(os.path.join(here, 'tailbone', '_version.py')).read())
+
+
 @task
 def release(ctx, skip_tests=False):
     """
@@ -40,4 +45,5 @@ def release(ctx, skip_tests=False):
         ctx.run('tox')
 
     shutil.rmtree('Tailbone.egg-info')
-    ctx.run('python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar upload')
+    ctx.run('python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar')
+    ctx.run('twine upload dist/Tailbone-{}.tar.gz'.format(__version__))