diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-protobuf-py-ext.yml b/.github/workflows/build-protobuf-py-ext.yml
index 698a5f4af79f..6ec46811ac9a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-protobuf-py-ext.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-protobuf-py-ext.yml
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ jobs:
         # in this monorepo is packages/protobuf-py-ext/ -- so upstream's
         # published wheels carry no licence text at all, only the
         # License-Expression classifier.
-        run: cp LICENSE packages/protobuf-py-ext/
+        # Newer releases already link the root LICENSE into the package directory,
+        # where cp refuses to copy a file onto itself.
+        run: |
+          [ LICENSE -ef packages/protobuf-py-ext/LICENSE ] || cp LICENSE packages/protobuf-py-ext/
 
       - name: Stage the riscv64 smoke tests
         # Upstream's own tests/ directory exercises protobuf-py-ext only through
diff --git a/docs/packages/protobuf-py-ext.yaml b/docs/packages/protobuf-py-ext.yaml
index 0ea172419ec4..46bae77bf9ba 100644
--- a/docs/packages/protobuf-py-ext.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/protobuf-py-ext.yaml
@@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: protobuf_py_ext-0.6.0-cp314-cp314t-manylinux_2_34_riscv64.manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: 7c8fe282a36a9e14ee91680e555b89dc47236c249045d2c50b8afecfa1074052
     requires-python: '>=3.10'
+- version: 0.7.0