diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml
index efd782f..667d855 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/go.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 name: build
-on: [push, pull_request]
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - main
+    tags:
+      - 'v*'
+  pull_request:
+
+
 jobs:
 
   test-build:
@@ -7,10 +17,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
 
-    - name: Set up Go 1.13
+    - name: Set up Go 
       uses: actions/setup-go@v1
       with:
-        go-version: 1.13
+        go-version: 1.16
       id: go
 
     - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
@@ -23,3 +33,13 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Build
       run: go build ./...
+
+    - name: Run GoReleaser
+      uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v2
+      # only release on tags
+      if: success() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
+      with:
+        version: v0.156.1
+        args: release --rm-dist
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FAILLINT_ACTIONS_BOT_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.goreleaser.yml b/.goreleaser.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d6945a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.goreleaser.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+project_name: faillint
+release:
+  prerelease: auto # don't publish release with -rc1,-pre, etc suffixes
+builds:
+  - env:
+      - CGO_ENABLED=0
+    goos:
+      - linux
+      - windows
+      - darwin
+    ldflags:
+     - -s -w -X main.version={{.Version}} -X main.date={{.Date}}
+    binary: "faillint"   
+nfpms:
+  - maintainer: Fatih Arslan
+    description: Report unwanted Go import path and declaration usages
+    homepage: https://github.com/fatih/faillint
+    license: BSD 3-Clause
+    formats:
+    - deb
+    - rpm
+    replacements:
+      darwin: macOS
+archives:
+  - replacements:
+      darwin: macOS
+    format_overrides:
+      - goos: windows
+        format: zip
+snapshot:
+  name_template: "{{ .Tag }}-next"
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+      - '^docs:'
+      - '^test:'
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 32d9ca3..4a653a6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,30 @@ you can configure to fail on such single function of `fmt` as well.
 ## Install
 
 ```bash
-go get github.com/fatih/faillint
+go install github.com/fatih/faillint@latest
+```
+
+## Example
+
+Assume we have the following file:
+
+```go
+package a
+
+import (
+        "errors"
+)
+
+func foo() error {
+        return errors.New("bar!")
+}
+```
+
+Let's run `faillint` to check if `errors` import is used and report it:
+
+```
+$ faillint -paths "errors=github.com/pkg/errors" a.go
+a.go:4:2: package "errors" shouldn't be imported, suggested: "github.com/pkg/errors"
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -121,29 +144,6 @@ func foo() error {
 }
 ```
 
-## Example
-
-Assume we have the following file:
-
-```go
-package a
-
-import (
-        "errors"
-)
-
-func foo() error {
-        return errors.New("bar!")
-}
-```
-
-Let's run `faillint` to check if `errors` import is used and report it:
-
-```
-$ faillint -paths "errors=github.com/pkg/errors" a.go
-a.go:4:2: package "errors" shouldn't be imported, suggested: "github.com/pkg/errors"
-```
-
 ## The need for this tool?
 
 Most of these checks should be probably detected during the review cycle. But
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 780dec5..54bf45b 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1,10 +1,31 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
 	"github.com/fatih/faillint/faillint"
 	"golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/singlechecker"
 )
 
+var (
+	version string
+	date    string
+)
+
 func main() {
+	// this is a small hack to implement the -V flag that is part of
+	// go/analysis framework. It'll allow us to print the version with -V, but
+	// the --help message will print the flags of the analyzer
+	ff := flag.NewFlagSet("faillint", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	v := ff.Bool("V", false, "print version and exit")
+	ff.Usage = func() {}
+	ff.Parse(os.Args[1:])
+	if *v {
+		fmt.Printf("faillint version %s (%s)\n", version, date)
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+
 	singlechecker.Main(faillint.NewAnalyzer())
 }