feat: improve release workflow and update steps

Author: jacobtread

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1,27 +1,45 @@
 name: Release
 
 on:
-  release:
-    types: created
+    # This will trigger when a tag like v1.0.0 is pushed
+    # will create a release
+    push:
+        tags:
+            - "*.*.*"
+    # Manual trigger for creating an artifact (button in the UI)
+    workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+    packages: write
+    contents: write
 
 jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@master
-      - name: Build poppler
-        run: make distribution
-      - name: Upload the artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
-        with:
-          name: poppler
-          path: export/poppler.zip
-      - name: Publish the artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        with:
-          upload_url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
-          asset_path: export/poppler.zip
-          asset_name: poppler.zip
-          asset_content_type: application/zip
+    build:
+        name: Build
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        steps:
+            # Checkout the repo for building
+            - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+            # Build release binaries
+            - name: Build poppler
+              run: make distribution ${{ github.ref_name }}
+
+            # Upload build artifact
+            - name: Upload the artifacts
+              uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+              with:
+                  name: poppler
+                  path: export/poppler.zip
+
+            # Create the github release if we pushed up a new tag
+            - name: Create GitHub Release
+              uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+              if: github.event_name == 'push'
+              with:
+                  tag_name: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+                  name: v${{ github.ref_name }}
+                  draft: true
+                  files: export/poppler.zip
+              env:
+                  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 SHELL := /bin/bash
 
+# Default version
+POPPLER_VERSION ?= 25.12.0
+
 compiler: compiler.Dockerfile
 	docker build -f ${PWD}/compiler.Dockerfile -t jeylabs/poppler/compiler:latest .
 
@@ -8,6 +11,7 @@ build: compiler
 
 distribution: build
 	docker run --rm \
+		--build-arg VERSION_POPPLER=${POPPLER_VERSION} \
 		--env ZIP_FILE_NAME=poppler \
 		--volume ${PWD}/export:/export \
 		--volume ${PWD}/runtime:/runtime \

compiler.Dockerfile

@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ RUN set -xe; \
 
 # Install Poppler (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/tags)
 
-ENV VERSION_POPPLER=25.12.0
+ARG VERSION_POPPLER=25.12.0
 ENV POPPLER_BUILD_DIR=${BUILD_DIR}/poppler
 ENV POPPLER_TEST_DIR=${BUILD_DIR}/poppler-test