From 2bb187f027ee2c4f944f07ac1ac8f5ef6183fc40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Hill <lukehill_uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:11:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Switch over to using the versioned file

---
 VERSION                      | 1 -
 cucumber-core.gemspec        | 4 +---
 lib/cucumber/core/version.rb | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 VERSION
 create mode 100644 lib/cucumber/core/version.rb

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index e88320d7..00000000
--- a/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-20.0.0
diff --git a/cucumber-core.gemspec b/cucumber-core.gemspec
index dee3ba0f..31f0293a 100644
--- a/cucumber-core.gemspec
+++ b/cucumber-core.gemspec
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-version = File.read(File.expand_path('VERSION', __dir__)).strip
-
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name        = 'cucumber-core'
-  s.version     = version
+  s.version     = Cucumber::Core::VERSION
   s.authors     = ['Aslak Hellesøy', 'Matt Wynne', 'Steve Tooke', 'Oleg Sukhodolsky', 'Tom Brand']
   s.description = 'Core library for the Cucumber BDD app'
   s.summary     = "cucumber-core-#{s.version}"
diff --git a/lib/cucumber/core/version.rb b/lib/cucumber/core/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..474ee957
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/cucumber/core/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+module Cucumber
+  module Core
+    VERSION = '20.0.0'
+  end
+end

From ea97f2b1cbd0f794d5319a8513d53236e635bc81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Hill <lukehill_uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:16:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Fix load ref

---
 cucumber-core.gemspec | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cucumber-core.gemspec b/cucumber-core.gemspec
index 31f0293a..8758919d 100644
--- a/cucumber-core.gemspec
+++ b/cucumber-core.gemspec
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
+require_relative 'lib/cucumber/core/version'
+
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name        = 'cucumber-core'
   s.version     = Cucumber::Core::VERSION

From 84f1fb8fe7122e488ae8b66c724eff36c0f4d2ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Hill <lukehill_uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:16:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c6593070..48af8619 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ This document is formatted according to the principles of [Keep A CHANGELOG](htt
 Please visit [cucumber/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more info on how to contribute to Cucumber.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Added
+- Moved the version definition to `lib/cucumber/core/version.rb` and updated the gemspec to use `Cucumber::Core::VERSION`
 
 ## [20.0.0] - 2026-10-09
 ### Changed