From e9b53442b4dae80eb025898415aba09c4970364c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrii Liekariev <elfpkck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 14:23:46 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Create GitHub Release before invoking `qgis-plugin-ci`

`qgis-plugin-ci release` requires the GitHub Release to exist (it
queries it to determine prerelease status). Without this step, the
publish job fails with `GithubReleaseNotFound` (404). Create the
release first using `gh release create`, marking it prerelease when
the tag has a suffix like `1.2.0-rc1`.
---
 .github/workflows/release.yaml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 9350005..d7c7043 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
       with: {python-version: '3.12'}
     - run: pip install qgis-plugin-ci==2.10.0
+    - name: Create GitHub Release
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      run: |
+        if [[ "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" == *-* ]]; then
+          gh release create "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" --title "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" --generate-notes --prerelease
+        else
+          gh release create "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" --title "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" --generate-notes
+        fi
     - name: Release
       env:
         GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}