diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e10f01f..9723a37 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ Arrow-native ADBC driver — columnar record batches out, bulk ingest in — fro
 Rust, Go, Java, C#, R and anything else that speaks the ADBC driver manager.
 
 **Integrated in [omniload](https://github.com/panodata/omniload):** the dlt-based loader ships an
-`adbcbridge` SQL backend since its [0.17 release](https://github.com/panodata/omniload/releases)
-(`omniload ingest --sql-backend adbcbridge`), requested, reviewed and merged by its maintainers on
-2026-09-17. [How it was built and tested](https://adbcbridge.org/notes/omniload-adbcbridge-backend/) ·
+`adbcbridge` SQL backend since [v0.17.0](https://github.com/panodata/omniload/releases/tag/v0.17.0),
+released 2026-09-17 — `pip install "omniload[adbcbridge]"`, then
+`omniload ingest --sql-backend adbcbridge`. Requested, reviewed and merged by its maintainers the
+same day, and carried by every release since. It is a declared extra of the published package
+(`adbcbridge>=0.1.3,<0.2`), and of omniload's own `full` and `test` extras. [How it was built and tested](https://adbcbridge.org/notes/omniload-adbcbridge-backend/) ·
 [omniload's handbook page](https://omniload.readthedocs.io/getting-started/sql-backends.html).
 
 Site and docs: <https://adbcbridge.org> · Launch write-up with the numbers:
diff --git a/scripts/bump_version.py b/scripts/bump_version.py
index 98fbdfb..8b4620f 100755
--- a/scripts/bump_version.py
+++ b/scripts/bump_version.py
@@ -120,12 +120,21 @@ def looks_like_ours(text, pos):
     19.0.0, Maven plugins ...).  Ours sit on a line that names the package -- a wheel,
     jar or nupkg file name, ``adbcbridge = "..."``, ``AdbcBridge --version`` -- or on
     the line right after ``<artifactId>adbcbridge</artifactId>`` in a Maven snippet.
+
+    A markdown link decides on its own, whatever else the line says: a version inside
+    ``[v0.17.0](https://github.com/panodata/omniload/releases/tag/v0.17.0)`` belongs to
+    the project the link points at, not to us.  Without that, a sentence naming our own
+    backend *and* citing the host project's release -- which the omniload and dlt
+    integration lines do -- would be read as an adbcbridge version.
     """
     start = text.rfind("\n", 0, pos) + 1
     prev_start = text.rfind("\n", 0, max(start - 1, 0)) + 1
     end = text.find("\n", pos)
     line = text[start:end if end != -1 else len(text)].lower()
     prev = text[prev_start:start].lower()
+    for m in re.finditer(r"\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]*)\)", line):
+        if m.start() <= pos - start < m.end():
+            return "adbcbridge" in m.group(1)
     if "adbcbridge" in line:
         return True
     return "<artifactid>adbcbridge</artifactid>" in prev and "<version>" in line