diff --git a/manifest.json b/manifest.json
index a74ff9134..fecab03d9 100644
--- a/manifest.json
+++ b/manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 {
-  "versions": ["v1.36", "v1.35", "v1.34", "v1.33", "v1.32", "v1.31", "v1.30"],
+  "versions": [
+    "v1.37",
+    "v1.36",
+    "v1.35",
+    "v1.34",
+    "v1.33",
+    "v1.32",
+    "v1.31",
+    "v1.30"
+  ],
   "routes": [
     {
       "path": "./index.md",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 75c944fd1..a44b6b8d3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
     "*.md": [
       "markdownlint --config .markdownlint.jsonc --rules .markdownlint-rules --fix",
       "prettier --write"
+    ],
+    "manifest.json": [
+      "./scripts/validate-manifest.sh"
     ]
   },
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/scripts/validate-manifest.sh b/scripts/validate-manifest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b882011b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/validate-manifest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# validate-manifest.sh [path/to/manifest.json]
+#
+# Dependencies: bash>=4.x jq tr sort uniq
+#
+# Description: Ensures consistency of versions specified in manifest.json.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ "${BASH_VERSINFO:-0}" -lt 4 ]]; then
+    echo "This script requires at least bash version 4."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! command -v jq > /dev/null; then
+    echo "This script requires jq to be available."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+GIT_ROOT=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+MANIFEST_JSON_PATH=${1:-"${GIT_ROOT}/manifest.json"}
+
+declare -a MANIFEST_VERSIONS
+declare -a ROUTE_VERSIONS
+
+# Read the versions array in manifest.json
+readarray -t MANIFEST_VERSIONS < <(jq -r '
+    .versions[]
+    | capture("(?<v>[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)")
+    | .v' < "${MANIFEST_JSON_PATH}")
+
+# Read all the child paths of changelog/index.md and extract major.minor version
+readarray -t ROUTE_VERSIONS < <(jq -r '
+    .routes[]
+    | select(.path == "./changelog/index.md")
+    | .children[]
+    | .path |
+    capture("(?<v>[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)")
+    | .v' < "${MANIFEST_JSON_PATH}")
+
+# Compare the two
+DIFF=$(echo "${MANIFEST_VERSIONS[@]}" "${ROUTE_VERSIONS[@]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -u)
+if [[ -n $DIFF ]]; then
+    echo "manifest.json: missing version for changelog(s): ${DIFF}"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0
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