Hello
I have the same problem. Did you manage to fix it?

Edit
I managed to solve this problem by trial and error - it's a pity that it is not clearly described in the documentation, or cz bump does not have a debug option, which will indicate problematic elements.

In a situation where I have set the cz.toml configuration file in the root folder
in order for the versions in the listed files to be updated correctly, you should:

• include the version in the cz.toml file

• the version included in cz.toml must match the versions in the other files (in a situation where the versions in the files differ, they will not be updated)

[tool.commitizen]
name = "cz_conventional_commits"
tag_format = "$version"
version_scheme = "semver"
version = "1.6.5-b23"
update_changelog_on_bump = false
major_version_zero = false
annotated_tag = false
version_files = [
 "package.json:version",
 "src/package.json:version",
 "src/pyproject.toml:version"
]

Another solution was to have pyproject.toml (or the appropriate manifest for configuration) in the root folder, which contained only information about the version

[tool.poetry]
version = "1.6.5-b23"

cz by default searches for the location in search of the manifest file.

thank you for solving the problem.
I'm now using commitizen npm package and semantic-release

I will try this later.

Hey, sorry for the late reply.

may I know what the format of

 "package.json:version",
 "app.json:expo.version"

it needs to be in the same line like

 "version": ...

if they're set in the version_file, we do not detect package.json app.json if using default provider. we only use string matching to find the line contains string version and the app version

hello I'm back.
sorry I've been a project deadline last week.

these is my file format.

• .cz.json

{
 "commitizen": {
 "name": "cz_conventional_commits",
 "tag_format": "test-$version",
 "version_scheme": "semver",
 "version": "3.124.0",
 "update_changelog_on_bump": true,
 "version_files": [
 "package.json:version",
 "app.json:expo.version"
 ]
 }
}

• package.json

{
 "name": "",
 "version": "3.124.0",
 "scripts": {},
 "dependencies": {},
}

• app.json

{
 "expo": {
 "name": "",
 "slug": "",
 "scheme": "",
 "version": "3.123.0",
 "ios": {},
 "android": {}
}

I try the @kamilgajekdxc solution.
setting all file's with same version.

after run cz bump
package.json is update correctly.
but app.json still not.

thanks @kamilgajekdxc , set to same version is really helpful. my package.json do update.

I found the problem.
as @Lee-W said. it will find string match.
so I add expo.version in my app.json for testing

cz bump update "expo.version": "" to correct version and keep "expo": {"version": ""} in old version.

now my question is how to set the correct version property in version_files if version is in a nesting object.