diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre-release.yml b/.github/workflows/pre-release.yml
index 77cf4f1b..a3988e2c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-release.yml
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ jobs:
         run: bash bin/build_sdist.sh
 
       - name: Test source distribution
+        env:
+          RELEASE_BUILD: "true"
         run: bash bin/test_sdist.sh
 
       - name: Store artifacts
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 38ab2f97..15ecfd8b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ jobs:
         run: bash bin/build_sdist.sh
 
       - name: Test source distribution
+        env:
+          RELEASE_BUILD: "true"
         run: bash bin/test_sdist.sh
 
       - name: Store artifacts
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index d9b2a44d..5fcba451 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 include README.md
 recursive-include src/pyqasm *.py *.pyx
-include src/pyqasm/py.typed
\ No newline at end of file
+include src/pyqasm/py.typed
+
+exclude tests/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/build_sdist.sh b/bin/build_sdist.sh
index 62ab9497..dac5951f 100755
--- a/bin/build_sdist.sh
+++ b/bin/build_sdist.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ set -x
 # current working directory
 TARGET_PATH="${1:-$(pwd)}"
 
+# Reset the uncommitted changes which may have been made
+git reset --hard HEAD
+git clean -xdf
+
 # Create a temporary dir, XXXXX will be replaced by a random string
 # of 5 chars to make the directory unique
 TEMP_ENV_DIR=$(mktemp -d -t build_env_XXXXX)
diff --git a/bin/cibw/pre_build.sh b/bin/cibw/pre_build.sh
index c48df491..c3a23b80 100755
--- a/bin/cibw/pre_build.sh
+++ b/bin/cibw/pre_build.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ echo "Running pre_build.sh"
 # Script has an argument which is the project path 
 project=$1
 
+# Reset any uncommitted changes which may have been made
+git reset --hard HEAD 
+git clean -xdf
+
 # Upgrade pip
 python -m pip install --upgrade pip
 
diff --git a/bin/test_sdist.sh b/bin/test_sdist.sh
index 2666da04..6d804b6e 100755
--- a/bin/test_sdist.sh
+++ b/bin/test_sdist.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,28 @@ SCRIPT_DIR="$TARGET_PATH/bin"
 
 "$SCRIPT_DIR/install_wheel_extras.sh" "$TARGET_PATH/dist" --type sdist --extra cli --extra test
 
+# Print the installed version
+python -c "import pyqasm; print('Installed pyqasm version:', pyqasm.__version__)"
+
+# Verify the installed version if release build
+if [[ ${RELEASE_BUILD:-false} == "true" ]]; then
+    echo "Testing release build version"
+    
+    # get version from importlib 
+    IMPORTLIB_VERSION=$(python -c "import importlib.metadata; print(importlib.metadata.version('pyqasm'))")
+    echo "Importlib version: $IMPORTLIB_VERSION"
+    
+    # get version from __version__ 
+    VERSION_ATTRIBUTE=$(python -c "import pyqasm; print(pyqasm.__version__)")
+    echo "Version attribute: $VERSION_ATTRIBUTE"
+    
+    # check if the versions are the same
+    if [[ $IMPORTLIB_VERSION != $VERSION_ATTRIBUTE ]]; then
+        echo "Versions do not match"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
 # Run the tests on the installed source distribution
 pytest "$TARGET_PATH/tests"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4ea0a31a..26dbd32f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "pyqasm"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1-alpha"
 description = "Python toolkit providing an OpenQASM 3 semantic analyzer and utilities for program analysis and compilation."
 authors = [{name = "qBraid Development Team"}, {email = "contact@qbraid.com"}]
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ lint = ["black", "isort>=6.0.0", "pylint", "mypy", "qbraid-cli>=0.8.5"]
 docs = ["sphinx>=7.3.7,<8.2.0", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints>=1.24,<3.1", "sphinx-rtd-theme>=2.0.0,<4.0.0", "docutils<0.22", "sphinx-copybutton"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
+version_scheme = "no-guess-dev"
 write_to = "src/pyqasm/_version.py"
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]