diff --git a/config/en/properdocs.yml b/config/en/properdocs.yml
index bd4282c..ae9535a 100644
--- a/config/en/properdocs.yml
+++ b/config/en/properdocs.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ theme:
 
 hooks:
   - ../../hooks/specifications.py
+  - ../../hooks/asset_versions.py
 
 plugins:
   - search:
diff --git a/hooks/asset_versions.py b/hooks/asset_versions.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2a4aba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hooks/asset_versions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+"""Give the site's own stylesheets and scripts a version in their URL.
+
+The server tells browsers they may keep a CSS or JS file for hours without
+asking again. The files keep the same name from one deploy to the next, so
+after a change a returning visitor gets the new HTML with the old script or
+stylesheet, and a page that needs the new one breaks until the copy expires.
+
+Every local entry in `extra_css` and `extra_javascript` is linked as
+`<path>?v=<hash of the file>` instead. The hash only changes when the file
+does, so browsers keep using their copy until there is a new one, and fetch
+it as soon as there is. Visitors never see the suffix; the file served is the
+same with or without it.
+
+Material's own bundle is not touched: its file names already carry a hash.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import hashlib
+import os
+
+
+def _version(path, dirs):
+    for base in dirs:
+        full = os.path.join(base, path)
+        if os.path.isfile(full):
+            with open(full, "rb") as fh:
+                return hashlib.sha256(fh.read()).hexdigest()[:10]
+    return None
+
+
+def _versioned(path, dirs):
+    path = path.split("?v=", 1)[0]          # the config may be reused by `serve`
+    if "://" in path or path.startswith("//"):
+        return path
+    version = _version(path, dirs)
+    return "%s?v=%s" % (path, version) if version else path
+
+
+def on_config(config):
+    dirs = [config["docs_dir"]] + list(config["theme"].dirs)
+    config["extra_css"] = [_versioned(p, dirs) for p in config["extra_css"]]
+    scripts = config["extra_javascript"]
+    for n, script in enumerate(scripts):
+        if isinstance(script, str):
+            scripts[n] = _versioned(script, dirs)
+        else:                                # ExtraScriptValue
+            script.path = _versioned(script.path, dirs)
+    return config