For the future, you can have a check in your author tests directory that checks that Changes contains a mention of the current version of the module.

I have such a test file in my template for distributions, but it relies on a Makefile.PL that is a modulino. Likely, the few modifications necessary to make it work in a general case:

#!perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Find;
use Test::More tests => 2;

=head1 PURPOSE

This test ensures that the Changes file
mentions the current version and that a
release date is mentioned as well

=cut

#require './Makefile.PL';
## Loaded from Makefile.PL
#our %module = get_module_info();
my $module = 'Business::Stripe::WebCheckout';

(my $file = $module) =~ s!::!/!g;
require "$file.pm";

my $version = sprintf '%0.2f', $module->VERSION;

my $changes = do { local $/; open my $fh, 'Changes' or die $!; <$fh> }
+;

ok $changes =~ /^(.*$version.*)$/m, "We find version $version for $mod
+ule";
my $changes_line = $1;
ok $changes_line =~ /$version\s+20\d\d-[01]\d-[0123]\d\b/, "We find a 
+release date on the same line"
    or diag $changes_line;

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