diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 5bcdd7b458..7997a9c1b7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -4,18 +4,12 @@
 # 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
+# * 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 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.
+# Note that the Github Release™ will be created with a generated
+# title/body based on your changelogs.
 name: Release
 
 permissions:
@@ -46,132 +40,152 @@ on:
   push:
     tags:
       - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+  pull_request:
 
 jobs:
   # Run 'cargo dist plan' to determine what tasks we need to do
-  # and create a draft github release with the computed title/body
   plan:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     outputs:
-      has-releases: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.has-releases }}
-      releases: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.releases }}
+      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: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.2.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.3.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       - id: plan
         run: |
-          cargo dist plan --tag=${{ github.ref_name }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist plan ran successfully"
+          cargo dist plan ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', github.ref_name) || '' }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist plan ran successfully"
           cat dist-manifest.json
-
-          # Create the Github Release™ based on what cargo-dist thinks it should be
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE=$(jq --raw-output ".announcement_title" dist-manifest.json)
-          IS_PRERELEASE=$(jq --raw-output ".announcement_is_prerelease" dist-manifest.json)
-          jq --raw-output ".announcement_github_body" dist-manifest.json > new_dist_announcement.md
-          gh release create ${{ github.ref_name }} --draft --prerelease="$IS_PRERELEASE" --title="$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file=new_dist_announcement.md
-          echo "created announcement!"
-
-          # Upload the manifest to the Github Release™
-          gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} dist-manifest.json
-          echo "uploaded manifest!"
-
-          # Disable all the upload-artifacts tasks if we have no actual releases
-          HAS_RELEASES=$(jq --raw-output ".releases != null" dist-manifest.json)
-          echo "has-releases=$HAS_RELEASES" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "releases=$(jq --compact-output ".releases" dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          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
   upload-local-artifacts:
     # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
     needs: plan
-    if: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.has-releases == 'true' }}
+    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).releases != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        # For these target platforms
-        include:
-        - os: "macos-11"
-          dist-args: "--artifacts=local --target=aarch64-apple-darwin"
-          install-dist: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.2.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-        - os: "macos-11"
-          dist-args: "--artifacts=local --target=x86_64-apple-darwin"
-          install-dist: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.2.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-        - os: "ubuntu-20.04"
-          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/v0.2.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+      # 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 }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
+      - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
       - 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: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+      - name: Build artifacts
         run: |
           # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
-          cargo dist build --tag=${{ github.ref_name }} --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist-args }} > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
-
+          cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --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 the Github Release™
-          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json > uploads.txt
-          echo "uploading..."
-          cat uploads.txt
-          gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} $(cat uploads.txt)
-          echo "uploaded!"
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
 
   # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things
   upload-global-artifacts:
-    needs: upload-local-artifacts
+    needs: [plan, upload-local-artifacts]
     runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - 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/v0.2.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.3.1/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: |
-          gh release download ${{ github.ref_name }} --dir target/distrib/
-      - name: Run cargo-dist
-        run: |
-          cargo dist build --tag=${{ github.ref_name }} --output-format=json "--artifacts=global" > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
+          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 the Github Release™
-          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json > uploads.txt
-          echo "uploading..."
-          cat uploads.txt
-          gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} $(cat uploads.txt)
-          echo "uploaded!"
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
 
-  # Mark the Github Release™ as a non-draft now that everything has succeeded!
+  should-publish:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - upload-local-artifacts
+      - upload-global-artifacts
+    if: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: print tag
+        run: echo "ok we're publishing!"
+
+  # Create a Github Release with all the results once everything is done,
   publish-release:
-    # Only run after all the other tasks, but it's ok if upload-artifacts was skipped
-    needs: [plan, upload-local-artifacts, upload-global-artifacts]
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.result == 'success' && (needs.upload-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.upload-local-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.upload-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.upload-global-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
+    needs: [plan, should-publish]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: mark release as non-draft
-        run: |
-          gh release edit ${{ github.ref_name }} --draft=false
+      - name: "Download artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: artifacts
+      - name: Create Release
+        uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          tag: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}
+          name: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).announcement_title }}
+          body: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).announcement_github_body }}
+          prerelease: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).announcement_is_prerelease }}
+          artifacts: "artifacts/*"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 370828da55..3f674e6973 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,20 +17,17 @@ default-members = [
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.2.0"
-# CI backends to support (see 'cargo dist generate-ci')
+cargo-dist-version = "0.3.1"
+# CI backends to support
 ci = ["github"]
 # The installers to generate for each app
 installers = ["shell", "powershell"]
 # 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",
-]
-# Don't compile any crate while building artifacts unless the crate's manifest has `dist = true`
+targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin"]
+# Whether to consider the binaries in a package for distribution (defaults true)
 dist = false
+# Publish jobs to run in CI
+pr-run-mode = "plan"
 
 # Config for 'cargo release'
 [workspace.metadata.release]