diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-versions.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-versions.yml
index 54a0a1ba..226cdeef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-versions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-versions.yml
@@ -1,104 +1,52 @@
-# Publish python-build-standalone version information to the versions repository.
 name: publish-versions
 
 on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      tag:
-        required: true
-        type: string
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      tag:
-        description: "Release tag to publish (e.g. 20260127)"
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      dry-run:
-        description: "Only generate metadata, skip PR creation"
-        required: false
-        type: boolean
-        default: true
-
-permissions: {}
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '[0-9]+'
+  release:
+    types: [published]
 
 jobs:
   publish-versions:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      TAG: ${{ inputs.tag }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-
-      - name: "Install uv"
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@37802adc94f370d6bfd71619e3f0bf239e1f3b78 # v7.6.0
-
-      - name: "Download SHA256SUMS"
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p dist
-          gh release download "$TAG" --dir dist --pattern "SHA256SUMS"
-
-      - name: "Generate versions metadata"
-        env:
-          GITHUB_EVENT_INPUTS_TAG: ${{ inputs.tag }}
-          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
-        run: uv run generate-version-metadata.py > dist/versions.ndjson
-
-      - name: "Validate metadata"
-        run: |
-          echo "Generated $(wc -l < dist/versions.ndjson) version entries"
-          head -c 1000 dist/versions.ndjson
-
-      - name: "Set branch name"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        run: echo "BRANCH_NAME=update-versions-$TAG-$(date +%s)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-      - name: "Clone versions repo"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        run: git clone https://${{ secrets.ASTRAL_VERSIONS_PAT }}@github.com/astral-sh/versions.git astral-versions
-
-      - name: "Update versions"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        run: cat dist/versions.ndjson | uv run astral-versions/scripts/insert-versions.py --name python-build-standalone
-
-      - name: "Commit versions"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        working-directory: astral-versions
-        run: |
-          git config user.name "astral-versions-bot"
-          git config user.email "176161322+astral-versions-bot@users.noreply.github.com"
-
-          git checkout -b "$BRANCH_NAME"
-          git add -A
-          git commit -m "Update python-build-standalone to $TAG"
-
-      - name: "Create Pull Request"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        working-directory: astral-versions
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ASTRAL_VERSIONS_PAT }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Get changed Python distributions
+        id: changed
+        uses: ./.github/actions/changed-distributions
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Publish to GitHub Release
+        if: steps.changed.outputs.changed == 'true'
         run: |
-          pull_request_title="Update python-build-standalone versions for $TAG"
-
-          gh pr list --state open --json title --jq ".[] | select(.title == \"$pull_request_title\") | .number" | \
-            xargs -I {} gh pr close {}
-
-          git push origin "$BRANCH_NAME"
-
-          gh pr create --base main --head "$BRANCH_NAME" \
-            --title "$pull_request_title" \
-            --body "Automated versions update for $TAG" \
-            --label "automation"
-
-      - name: "Merge Pull Request"
-        if: inputs.dry-run != true
-        working-directory: astral-versions
+          for dist in ${{ steps.changed.outputs.distributions }}; do
+            gh release upload ${{ github.ref_name }} "$dist" --clobber
+          done
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ASTRAL_VERSIONS_PAT }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Create and push version files
+        if: github.event.release.prerelease == false
         run: |
-          # Wait for PR to be created before merging
-          sleep 10
-          gh pr merge --squash "$BRANCH_NAME"
+          #!/bin/bash
+          set -e
+
+          VERSION=${{ github.ref_name }}
+          VERSION_MAJOR=$(echo $VERSION | cut -d. -f1)
+
+          # Create the version file
+          mkdir -p version
+          echo $VERSION > "version/python-${VERSION_MAJOR}-x86_64-linux-gnu"
+
+          # Create the latest version file
+          mkdir -p latest-release
+          echo $VERSION > "latest-release/latest-release.json"
+
+          # Commit and push
+          git config user.name "Gregory Szorc"
+          git config user.email "gregory.szorc@python-build-standalone.com"
+          git add version latest-release
+          git diff --cached --quiet || git commit -m "$VERSION"
+          git push