release.yaml has never run. It listens for "v*" tags while every tag ever
cut is bare — 3.0.0-alpha.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3-beta.1 — so tagging by the
established convention produced silence, and whoever cuts 3.0.0 would
have hit that first. It now accepts both spellings.
It also hand-copied the release file list, which docker.yaml then rebuilt
via `make clean dist` and uploaded with overwrite: true. The two lists
were identical, so nothing had broken yet, but which zip users received
was decided by job ordering. `make dist` owns the artifact now and the
duplicate is gone.
The release is created as a draft with the package already attached and
published in a separate step, so `release: published` fires only once the
tests have passed and the asset is in place. A failed run leaves no
release at all, rather than a published one nobody can download — which
is what 2.4.2 left behind. Registration can no longer race the upload
either, so docker.yaml drops its build job, and register_release loses
both that dependency and the always() dance it needed to survive the job
being skipped on a manual dispatch.
GitHub's "Latest release" pointer is gated on LATEST_MAJOR, exactly as
docker.yaml gates its moving image tags: a 3.0.0 alpha can no longer
displace 2.4.x as the release users are shown first. Release notes come
from CHANGELOG.md instead of being generated from commits, matching where
the updater already reads them, and a tag with no section fails before
anything is published.
The test job moves to a reusable workflow rather than being written out
in both places — the duplicated file list above is the argument.
