diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 5c5c74b..a8211f6 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -38,14 +38,19 @@ platform:
   arch: amd64
 
 steps:
+  - name: Newer version to publish?
+    image: python:3.10
+    commands:
+      - bash publish_version?.sh
+
   - name: Test PyPi publish
     image: python:3.10
     commands: 
-    - make dist
-    - pip3 install -r requirements.txt
-    - pip3 install twine
-    - twine check dist/*
-    - twine upload --repository delugeClient-kevin dist/*
+      - make dist
+      - pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+      - pip3 install twine
+      - twine check dist/*
+      - twine upload --repository delugeClient-kevin dist/*
 
   - name: PyPi publish
     image: python:3.10
diff --git a/publish_version?.sh b/publish_version?.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74e31c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/publish_version?.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+
+PYPI_VERSION=$(pip3 show delugeClient-kevin | awk '$1 ~ /Version:/ { print $2 }')
+SOURCE_VERSION=$(python3 delugeClient/__version__.py)
+
+echo "hello"
+echo "pypi version: $PYPI_VERSION"
+echo "source version: $SOURCE_VERSION"
+
+function version {
+  echo "$@" | awk -F. '{ printf("%d%03d%03d%03d\n", $1,$2,$3,$4); }';
+}
+
+if [ $(version $SOURCE_VERSION) -gt $(version $PYPI_VERSION) ]; then
+  echo "source is newer than pypi"
+  exit 0
+else
+  exit 1
+  echo "source is same or oldre, but not newer"
+fi
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