diff --git a/examples/fixture/anchors.json b/examples/fixture/anchors.json
index 5d58bb4..aff7d4b 100644
--- a/examples/fixture/anchors.json
+++ b/examples/fixture/anchors.json
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 [
   {
     "spaces_root": "6243eee1459193a86f801250ab75fdf5a96e829d1846a6a51e9aa2c1c88db73b",
-    "nums_root": "81e10fb6592ce87d8cd1f109eae29d584d9bf684468e042d77863bdcb47921aa",
+    "nums_root": "5e4f68496e475a9ad087ebc0fa8f96e98baaa3e44fd0c596e048724a9d12282d",
     "block": {
-      "hash": "ba232401ad870c4fc435b8b8bb71ab4a78bd7aa9a96cb535127126e2cbd0208b",
+      "hash": "822af0ef8ce16f94a1c9ddd95152b5178c90cd42d5940872f0376020d44b4a62",
       "height": 145
     }
   },
   {
     "spaces_root": "6243eee1459193a86f801250ab75fdf5a96e829d1846a6a51e9aa2c1c88db73b",
-    "nums_root": "81e10fb6592ce87d8cd1f109eae29d584d9bf684468e042d77863bdcb47921aa",
+    "nums_root": "5e4f68496e475a9ad087ebc0fa8f96e98baaa3e44fd0c596e048724a9d12282d",
     "block": {
-      "hash": "ba232401ad870c4fc435b8b8bb71ab4a78bd7aa9a96cb535127126e2cbd0208b",
+      "hash": "822af0ef8ce16f94a1c9ddd95152b5178c90cd42d5940872f0376020d44b4a62",
       "height": 0
     }
   }
diff --git a/examples/fixture/message.bin b/examples/fixture/message.bin
index 6549d8a..9ec1933 100644
Binary files a/examples/fixture/message.bin and b/examples/fixture/message.bin differ
diff --git a/examples/js/verify.mjs b/examples/js/verify.mjs
index 7f5fd8b..b6190b4 100644
--- a/examples/js/verify.mjs
+++ b/examples/js/verify.mjs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { readFileSync } from "fs";
 import { Veritas, QueryContext, Message } from "./pkg/libveritas.js";
 
-// Load fixtures generated by `cargo run --bin generate-fixture`
+// Load fixtures generated by `cargo run --example generate_fixture -p libveritas_testutil`
 const anchors = JSON.parse(readFileSync("examples/fixture/anchors.json", "utf8"));
 const msgBytes = readFileSync("examples/fixture/message.bin");
 
diff --git a/release-plz.toml b/release-plz.toml
index 29b53f6..93d8719 100644
--- a/release-plz.toml
+++ b/release-plz.toml
@@ -61,14 +61,16 @@ name = "libveritas_zk"
 release = false
 publish = false
 
-# Non-publishable crates: skip versioning, changelog, and releases
 [[package]]
-name = "libveritas_methods"
-release = false
-publish = false
+name = "libveritas_testutil"
+publish = true
+git_release_enable = true
+git_release_latest = false
+git_tag_name = "libveritas_testutil-v{{ version }}"
 
+# Non-publishable crates: skip versioning, changelog, and releases
 [[package]]
-name = "libveritas_testutil"
+name = "libveritas_methods"
 release = false
 publish = false
 
diff --git a/testutil/Cargo.toml b/testutil/Cargo.toml
index b7b4ac0..d5ab521 100644
--- a/testutil/Cargo.toml
+++ b/testutil/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,8 +2,15 @@
 name = "libveritas_testutil"
 version.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
+rust-version.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+homepage.workspace = true
 authors.workspace = true
-publish = false
+description = "Test fixtures and helpers for libveritas — simulated chain state, handle trees, and a fixture generator."
+documentation = "https://docs.rs/libveritas_testutil"
+keywords = ["spaces", "testing", "fixture"]
+categories = ["development-tools::testing"]
 
 [dependencies]
 libveritas = { workspace = true }
@@ -16,8 +23,4 @@ borsh_utils = { workspace = true }
 borsh = { version = "1.6", features = ["derive", "std"] }
 bitcoin = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["rand-std"] }
 risc0-zkvm = { version = "3.0.5", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
-serde_json = "1.0"
-
-[[bin]]
-name = "generate-fixture"
-path = "../examples/generate_fixture.rs"
+serde_json = "1.0"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/generate_fixture.rs b/testutil/examples/generate_fixture.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/generate_fixture.rs
rename to testutil/examples/generate_fixture.rs