diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index c4656e1f..e696ba91 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,94 +1,256 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2023, axodotdev
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
-#
-# CI that:
-#
-# * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
-# * creates a draft Github Release™ and fills in its text
-# * builds artifacts with cargo-dist (executable-zips, installers, hashes)
-# * uploads those artifacts to the Github Release™
-# * undrafts the Github Release™ on success
-#
-# Note that the Github Release™ will be created before the artifacts,
-# so there will be a few minutes where the release has no artifacts
-# and then they will slowly trickle in, possibly failing. To make
-# this more pleasant we mark the release as a "draft" until all
-# artifacts have been successfully uploaded. This allows you to
-# choose what to do with partial successes and avoids spamming
-# anyone with notifications before the release is actually ready.
-name: Release
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write
-
-# This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
-# like "v1", "v1.2.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease01", "my-app-v1.0.0", etc.
-# The version will be roughly parsed as ({PACKAGE_NAME}-)?v{VERSION}, where
-# PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
-# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version.
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then we will create a Github Release™ for that
-# package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't cargo-dist-able).
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then we will create a Github Release™ for all
-# (cargo-dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this is mode is
-# intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
-# packages versioned/released in lockstep).
-#
-# If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
-# spin up, creating an independent Github Release™ for each one.
-#
-# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version then the Github Release™
-# will be marked as a prerelease.
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - '*-?v[0-9]+*'
-
-jobs:
-  # Build and packages all the things
-  upload-artifacts:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        # For these target platforms
-        include:
-        - os: macos-11
-          dist-args: --artifacts=local --target=aarch64-apple-darwin --target=x86_64-apple-darwin
-          install-dist: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.4.2/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh
-        - os: ubuntu-22.04
-          dist-args: --artifacts=local --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
-          install-dist: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.4.2/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh
-        - os: windows-2019
-          dist-args: --artifacts=local --target=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
-          install-dist: irm  https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.4.2/cargo-dist-installer.ps1 | iex
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install Rust
-        run: rustup update 1.72.0 --no-self-update && rustup default 1.72.0
-      - name: Use rust cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-        with:
-          cache-on-failure: true
-      - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: ${{ matrix.install-dist }}
-      - name: Run cargo-dist
-        # This logic is a bit janky because it's trying to be a polyglot between
-        # powershell and bash since this will run on windows, macos, and linux!
-        # The two platforms don't agree on how to talk about env vars but they
-        # do agree on 'cat' and '$()' so we use that to marshal values between commands.
-        run: |
-          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
-          cargo dist build --tag=${{ github.ref_name }} --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist-args }} > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
-
-          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to the Github Release™
-          cat dist-manifest.json | jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" > uploads.txt
-          echo "uploading..."
-          cat uploads.txt
-          gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} $(cat uploads.txt)
-          echo "uploaded!"
\ No newline at end of file
+# Copyright 2022-2023, axodotdev
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
+#
+# CI that:
+#
+# * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
+# * builds artifacts with cargo-dist (archives, installers, hashes)
+# * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
+# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a Github Release
+#
+# Note that the Github Release will be created with a generated
+# title/body based on your changelogs.
+
+name: Release
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+# This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
+# like "1.0.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease.1", "my-app/0.1.0", "releases/v1.0.0", etc.
+# Various formats will be parsed into a VERSION and an optional PACKAGE_NAME, where
+# PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
+# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version (must have at least major.minor.patch).
+#
+# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then the announcement will be for that
+# package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't cargo-dist-able).
+#
+# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then the announcement will be for all
+# (cargo-dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this mode is
+# intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
+# packages versioned/released in lockstep).
+#
+# If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
+# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However Github
+# will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
+# mistake.
+#
+# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the release(s)
+# will be marked as a prerelease.
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  # Run 'cargo dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
+  plan:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
+      tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && github.ref_name || '' }}
+      tag-flag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', github.ref_name) || '' }}
+      publishing: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.5.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # sure would be cool if github gave us proper conditionals...
+      # so here's a doubly-nested ternary-via-truthiness to try to provide the best possible
+      # functionality based on whether this is a pull_request, and whether it's from a fork.
+      # (PRs run on the *source* but secrets are usually on the *target* -- that's *good*
+      # but also really annoying to build CI around when it needs secrets to work right.)
+      - id: plan
+        run: |
+          cargo dist ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('host --steps=create --tag={0}', github.ref_name) || (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork && 'plan' || 'host --steps=check') }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+          cat dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: dist-manifest.json
+
+  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
+  build-local-artifacts:
+    name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
+    # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
+    needs: plan
+    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      # Target platforms/runners are computed by cargo-dist in create-release.
+      # Each member of the matrix has the following arguments:
+      #
+      # - runner: the github runner
+      # - dist-args: cli flags to pass to cargo dist
+      # - install-dist: expression to run to install cargo-dist on the runner
+      #
+      # Typically there will be:
+      # - 1 "global" task that builds universal installers
+      # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+      # Get the dist-manifest
+      - name: Fetch local artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: target/distrib/
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
+      - name: Build artifacts
+        run: |
+          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
+          cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+      - id: cargo-dist
+        name: Post-build
+        # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
+        # to "real" actions without writing to env-vars, and writing to env-vars has
+        # inconsistent syntax between shell and powershell.
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+
+  # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things
+  build-global-artifacts:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - build-local-artifacts
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/dist-manifest.json
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.5.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # Get all the local artifacts for the global tasks to use (for e.g. checksums)
+      - name: Fetch local artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: target/distrib/
+      - id: cargo-dist
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --output-format=json "--artifacts=global" > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+  # Determines if we should publish/announce
+  host:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - build-local-artifacts
+      - build-global-artifacts
+    # Only run if we're "publishing", and only if local and global didn't fail (skipped is fine)
+    if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' && (needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.host.outputs.manifest }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.5.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # Fetch artifacts from scratch-storage
+      - name: Fetch artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: target/distrib/
+      # This is a harmless no-op for Github Releases, hosting for that happens in "announce"
+      - id: host
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo dist host ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --steps=upload --steps=release --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "artifacts uploaded and released successfully"
+          cat dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: dist-manifest.json
+
+  # Create a Github Release while uploading all files to it
+  announce:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - host
+    # use "always() && ..." to allow us to wait for all publish jobs while
+    # still allowing individual publish jobs to skip themselves (for prereleases).
+    # "host" however must run to completion, no skipping allowed!
+    if: ${{ always() && needs.host.result == 'success' }}
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: "Download Github Artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: artifacts
+      - name: Cleanup
+        run: |
+          # Remove the granular manifests
+          rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
+      - name: Create Github Release
+        uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          tag: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}
+          name: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_title }}
+          body: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_github_body }}
+          prerelease: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_is_prerelease }}
+          artifacts: "artifacts/*"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9f4a42de..7f737379 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ resolver = "2"
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.4.2"
-# The preferred Rust toolchain to use in CI (rustup toolchain syntax)
-rust-toolchain-version = "1.73.0"
-# CI backends to support (see 'cargo dist generate-ci')
+cargo-dist-version = "0.5.0"
+# CI backends to support
 ci = ["github"]
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
-targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc", "aarch64-apple-darwin"]
+targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
 # The installers to generate for each app
 installers = []
+# Publish jobs to run in CI
+pr-run-mode = "plan"
 
 # generated by 'cargo dist init'
 [profile.dist]