swap release action

Author: moritz-tiesler

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -89,54 +89,37 @@ jobs:
       with:
         name: ${{ steps.set_filename.outputs.ASSET_NAME }}
         path: dist/${{ steps.set_filename.outputs.ASSET_NAME }}
-
   release:
     name: Create GitHub Release
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: build # This job depends on all 'build' jobs completing successfully
+    needs: build
     if: success() && github.ref_type == 'tag'
 
     permissions:
       contents: write # For creating the release and uploading assets
-      actions: read   # Needed by actions/github-script to list workflow runs/artifacts
-      checks: read    # Good practice, often used with actions/github-script
-      pull-requests: read # Not strictly needed for this, but common
-      statuses: read    # Not strictly needed for this, but common
+      actions: read   # Not strictly needed for softprops/action-gh-release, but harmless
+      # Removed: checks, pull-requests, statuses - often not needed for release action specifically
 
     steps:
-    - name: Create Release
-      id: create_release
-      uses: actions/create-release@v1.1.4
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # This token is automatically provided by GitHub
-      with:
-        tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
-        release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
-        draft: false
-        prerelease: false
-
     - name: Download all build artifacts
+      # Keep this step as softprops/action-gh-release can directly consume files from a directory
       uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         path: release_assets # Download all artifacts into this directory
 
-    - name: Install GitHub CLI
-      run: |
-        sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install -y gh
-
-    - name: Upload artifacts to release
-      run: |
-        # The download-artifact action creates a directory for each artifact name.
-        # So your structure will be release_assets/ASSET_NAME/actual_file
-        # You need to iterate through these
-        find release_assets -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' file; do
-          if [ -f "$file" ]; then
-            echo "Uploading $file to release"
-            gh release upload "${{ github.ref_name }}" "$file" --repo "${{ github.repository }}" --clobber
-          else
-            echo "Skipping non-file: $file"
-          fi
-        done
+    - name: Create GitHub Release
+      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2 # Using the recommended action version 2
       env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      with:
+        tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
+        name: Release ${{ github.ref }} # 'name' instead of 'release_name'
+        draft: false
+        prerelease: false
+        # Here's the magic: Directly upload all downloaded artifacts!
+        # This finds all files within any subdirectory under release_assets/
+        files: release_assets/**/*
+        # If you wanted to be more specific, e.g., only zip and tar.gz:
+        # files: |
+        #   release_assets/**/*.zip
+        #   release_assets/**/*.tar.gz