Pre-release workflow now reads current version from manifest (not
bumps before build), builds the release, then bumps for next dev cycle.
version_bump.php and version_read.php check both README.md and manifest
XML, using the higher version as the base.
Authored-by: Moko Consulting
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>