diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yaml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f83507b..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release-please.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
----
-name: release-please
-
-on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  release-please:
-    name: Open/update the release PR
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      -
-        uses: actions/checkout@v7
-        with:
-          fetch-tags: true
-      -
-        # Unlike rubyists/linear-cli's own release-please setup, this tap
-        # has no build-binaries-first step to race against GitHub's
-        # Immutable Releases - a formula bump is just text, so
-        # release-please can tag/release normally, no skip-github-release
-        # + custom atomic-tagging job needed.
-        uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v5
-        with:
-          config-file: .release-please-config.json
-          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
-          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.release-please-config.json b/.release-please-config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a4cd9ba..0000000
--- a/.release-please-config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "packages": {
-    "Formula/linear-cli": {
-      "release-type": "simple",
-      "version-file": ".version",
-      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md"
-    }
-  },
-  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json"
-}
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 813fa74..0000000
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "Formula/linear-cli": "0.1.0"
-}
diff --git a/Formula/linear-cli/.version b/Formula/linear-cli/.version
index 6e8bf73..88c5fb8 100644
--- a/Formula/linear-cli/.version
+++ b/Formula/linear-cli/.version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.0
+1.4.0
diff --git a/Formula/linear-cli/CHANGELOG.md b/Formula/linear-cli/CHANGELOG.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 825c32f..0000000
--- a/Formula/linear-cli/CHANGELOG.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# Changelog
diff --git a/Formula/linear-cli/linear-cli.rb b/Formula/linear-cli/linear-cli.rb
index 5d9281f..d3b921e 100644
--- a/Formula/linear-cli/linear-cli.rb
+++ b/Formula/linear-cli/linear-cli.rb
@@ -3,16 +3,23 @@ class LinearCli < Formula
   homepage "https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli"
   license "WTFPL"
 
+  # The one place the version lives - rubyists/linear-cli's own
+  # homebrew-tap-bump workflow job writes this file directly to mirror
+  # that repo's release tag exactly. Everything below interpolates from
+  # it rather than repeating the version in each url, so there's nothing
+  # else to keep in sync by hand.
+  version File.read(File.expand_path(".version", __dir__)).chomp
+
   on_macos do
     on_arm do
-      url "https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/download/v1.4.0/lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz"
+      url "https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/download/v#{version}/lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz"
       sha256 "7f63650ec3180ea8fea4ce797a59fbfc2a462f50e070ebee778ec2a0fb7c9e0e"
     end
   end
 
   on_linux do
     on_intel do
-      url "https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/download/v1.4.0/lc_linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
+      url "https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/download/v#{version}/lc_linux_x86_64.tar.gz"
       sha256 "2ab8355940245cbf6bd7fb77ea5d89e2c39cdf80de5127b371698de99a01180e"
     end
   end