🔧 Summary

This PR improves the release.yml GitHub Actions workflow by addressing several critical issues to ensure consistent and reliable behavior during tag-based releases.

✅ Changes Included

1. Fixed tag trigger regex

• Escaped dots in the tag regex ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) to ensure only semantic version tags like 1.2.3 trigger the workflow.

Explanation

• Old Regex is incorrect because . matches any character, so it matched:

1-2-3, 1_2_3, even 1a2b3, which is invalid for versioning.

• Fixed Regex is strict — matches only 1.2.3.

Find attached tested SCREEN SHOT BELOW .

Bad Match with Old Regex:

Proper Match with Fixed Regex:

💬 Note: If you're planning to adopt alternate version tag formats in the future — such as:

• v1.0.2 (semantic with prefix)

• release-1.0.2 or rel-1.0.2

• 1.0.2-beta, 1.0.2-rc.1 (prereleases with suffixes)

• x1.0.2x (custom wrapping formats)

…feel free to reach out. I'm happy to help extend the workflow to support those formats reliably and safely.

2. Added strict release job guard

• Prevented accidental release runs on non-tag events using if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/').

3. Explicit artifact validation

• Introduced a shell check using ls and test to ensure .zip and .pkg files exist before attempting release. This gives early, clear failure instead of a vague error from action-gh-release.

4. Clarified GitHub token usage

• Switched from ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} to ${{ github.token }} for better readability and consistency with GitHub Actions best practices.

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