diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 6dcc1828a..8edeea905 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ on:
       - beta
       - next
       - main
-      - gamma
 
 permissions:
   contents: read # for checkout
@@ -50,41 +49,28 @@ jobs:
             cypress/screenshots
             cypress/videos
 
-  release-please:
+  release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # to be able to publish a GitHub release
+      issues: write # to be able to comment on released issues
+      pull-requests: write # to be able to comment on released pull requests
+      id-token: write # to enable use of OIDC for npm provenance
+    name: 'Semantic release'
+    needs: test
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: tibdex/github-app-token@v2 # v2
-        id: generate-token
-        with:
-          app_id: ${{ secrets.ECOSPARK_APP_ID }}
-          private_key: ${{ secrets.ECOSPARK_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-      # This action will create a release PR when regular conventional commits are pushed to main, it'll also detect if a release PR is merged and npm publish should happen
-      - uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v3
-        id: release
-        with:
-          release-type: node
-          command: manifest
-          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-
-      # Publish to NPM on new releases
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
-      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
         with:
-          cache: pnpm
+          # Need to fetch entire commit history to
+          # analyze every commit since last release
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
           node-version: lts/*
-      - name: install deps & build
-        run: corepack enable && pnpm --version && pnpm install --ignore-scripts
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
-      - name: Set publishing config
-        run: pnpm config set '//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken' "${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN}"
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+      - run: corepack enable && pnpm --version
+      - run: pnpm install
+      # Branches that will release new versions are defined in .releaserc.json
+      - run: pnpm exec semantic-release
         env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_PUBLISH_TOKEN}}
-      # Release Please has already incremented versions and published tags, so we just
-      # need to publish all unpublished versions to NPM here
-      - run: pnpm -r publish
-        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_PUBLISH_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-gamma.yml b/.github/workflows/release-gamma.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c398ac779
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-gamma.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+name: Release (gamma)
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - gamma
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: tibdex/github-app-token@3beb63f4bd073e61482598c45c71c1019b59b73a # v2
+        id: generate-token
+        with:
+          app_id: ${{ secrets.ECOSPARK_APP_ID }}
+          private_key: ${{ secrets.ECOSPARK_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+      # This action will create a release PR when regular conventional commits are pushed to gamma, it'll also detect if a release PR is merged and npm publish should happen
+      - uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v3
+        id: release
+        with:
+          release-type: node
+          default-branch: gamma
+          command: manifest
+          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
+
+      # Publish to NPM on new releases
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+        with:
+          cache: pnpm
+          node-version: lts/*
+      - name: install deps & build
+        run: corepack enable && pnpm --version && pnpm install --ignore-scripts
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+      - name: Set publishing config
+        run: pnpm config set '//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken' "${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN}"
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_PUBLISH_TOKEN}}
+      # Release Please has already incremented versions and published tags, so we just
+      # need to publish all unpublished versions to NPM here
+      - run: pnpm -r publish
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e0ccc1c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"@sanity/ui": "2.0.0-gamma.0"}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..852562412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+  "packages": {
+    "@sanity/ui": {
+      "prerelease": true
+    }
+  }
+}