diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
index 36d9fa4..31d27eb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ jobs:
         if: contains(matrix.os, 'macos-12') == false
       - name: Install sponge and timeout 
         run: brew install coreutils sponge
+      - uses: cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@main
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: cargo install cargo-dist
+        run: cargo binstall cargo-dist -y
       - name: Install IC SDK (dfx)
-        run: DFX_VERSION="0.15.0-ext.0" sh -ci "$(curl -sSL https://internetcomputer.org/install.sh)"
+        uses: dfinity/setup-dfx@main
       - name: run test
         run: timeout 2400 e2e/bats/bin/bats ${{ matrix.test_file_path }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-with-github.yml b/.github/workflows/release-with-github.yml
index 032a6eb..94a1777 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-with-github.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-with-github.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       nev_version: ${{ steps.determine_version.outputs.NEW_VERSION }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@main
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [create-release, call-release-binaries-workflow]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Open the release PR
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ jobs:
           TAG="${{ inputs.whichCrate }}-v${{ needs.create-release.outputs.nev_version }}"
           HEAD="release/$TAG"
           TITLE="chore(${{ inputs.whichCrate }}): release v${{ needs.create-release.outputs.nev_version }}"
-          echo "PR created by this workflow: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}" >> BODY.md
-          echo "Link to release: https://github.com/dfinity/dfx-extensions/releases/tag/$TAG" >> BODY.md
+          cat >BODY.md <<EOF
+          PR created by this workflow: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
+          Link to release: https://github.com/${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/releases/tag/$TAG
+          EOF
           gh pr create --base main --head "$HEAD" --title "$TITLE" --body-file BODY.md
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 392c2ea..5ee7676 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -4,40 +4,37 @@
 # CI that:
 #
 # * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
-# * creates a Github Release™ and fills in its text
-# * builds artifacts with cargo-dist (executable-zips, installers)
-# * uploads those artifacts to the Github Release™
+# * 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.
-name: Release binaries
+# Note that the Github Release™ will be created with a generated
+# title/body based on your changelogs.
+name: Release
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
 
 # This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
-# like "v1", "v1.2.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease01", "my-app-v1.0.0", etc.
-# The version will be roughly parsed as ({PACKAGE_NAME}-)?v{VERSION}, where
+# like "1.0.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease.1", "my-app/0.1.0", "releases/v1.0.0", etc.
+# Various formats will be parsed into a VERSION and an optional PACKAGE_NAME, where
 # PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
-# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version.
+# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version (must have at least major.minor.patch).
 #
-# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then we will create a Github Release™ for that
+# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then the release will be for that
 # package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't cargo-dist-able).
 #
-# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then we will create a Github Release™ for all
-# (cargo-dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this is mode is
+# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then the release will be for all
+# (cargo-dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this mode is
 # intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
 # packages versioned/released in lockstep).
 #
 # If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
-# spin up, creating an independent Github Release™ for each one.
+# spin up, creating an independent Github Release™ for each one. However Github
+# will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
+# mistake.
 #
-# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version then the Github Release™
+# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the Github Release™
 # will be marked as a prerelease.
 on:
   workflow_call:
@@ -47,17 +44,13 @@ on:
         type: string
   push:
     tags:
-      - '*-?v[0-9]+*'
+      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
 
 jobs:
-  # Create the Github Release™ so the packages have something to be uploaded to
-  create-release:
+  determine-release-tag:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     outputs:
-      has-releases: ${{ steps.create-release.outputs.has-releases }}
       release-tag: ${{ steps.determine-release-tag.outputs.TAG }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
       - name: Determine correct tag
         id: determine-release-tag
@@ -76,102 +69,129 @@ jobs:
           echo "TAG=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "TAG=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+  # Run 'cargo dist plan' to determine what tasks we need to do
+  plan:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: determine-release-tag
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
+      tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && needs.determine-release-tag.outputs.release-tag || '' }}
+      tag-flag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', needs.determine-release-tag.outputs.release-tag) || '' }}
+      publishing: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          ref: ${{ env.TAG }}
+          ref: ${{ needs.determine-release-tag.outputs.release-tag }}
           submodules: recursive
-
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.1.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-
-      - id: create-release
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.4.3/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      - id: plan
         run: |
-          cargo dist plan --tag=${{ env.TAG }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist plan ran successfully"
+          cargo dist plan ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', needs.determine-release-tag.outputs.release-tag) || '' }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist plan ran successfully"
           cat dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: dist-manifest.json
 
-          # 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 ${{ env.TAG }} --draft --prerelease="$IS_PRERELEASE" --title="$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file=new_dist_announcement.md
-          echo "created announcement!"
-
-          # Upload the manifest to the Github Release™
-          gh release upload ${{ env.TAG }} dist-manifest.json
-          echo "uploaded manifest!"
-
-          # Disable all the upload-artifacts tasks if we have no actual releases
-          HAS_RELEASES=$(jq --raw-output ".releases != null" dist-manifest.json)
-          echo "has-releases=$HAS_RELEASES" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-  # Build and packages all the things
-  upload-artifacts:
+  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
+  upload-local-artifacts:
     # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
-    needs: create-release
-    if: ${{ needs.create-release.outputs.has-releases == 'true' }}
+    needs: plan
+    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-latest"
-          dist-args: "--artifacts=local --target=aarch64-apple-darwin"
-          install-dist: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.1.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-        - os: "macos-latest"
-          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/v0.1.0/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/v0.1.0/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: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
     steps:
-      - name: Get correct tag
-        run: echo "TAG=${{ needs.create-release.outputs.release-tag }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          ref: ${{ env.TAG }}
+          ref: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}
           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: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
+      - name: Build artifacts
         run: |
           # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
-          cargo dist build --tag=${{ env.TAG }} --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 }} --print=linkage --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 ${{ env.TAG }} $(cat uploads.txt)
-          echo "uploaded!"
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-  # Mark the Github Release™ as a non-draft now that everything has succeeded!
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+
+  should-publish:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - upload-local-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: [create-release, upload-artifacts]
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.create-release.result == 'success' && (needs.upload-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.upload-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
+    needs: [plan, should-publish]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: Get correct tag
-        run: echo "TAG=${{ needs.create-release.outputs.release-tag }}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      - name: mark release as non-draft
+      - name: "Download artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: artifacts
+          path: artifacts
+      - name: Cleanup
         run: |
-          gh release edit ${{ env.TAG }} --draft=false
+          # Remove the granular manifests
+          rm artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
+      - 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 d31f64c..39114b4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ targets = [
 unix-archive = ".tar.gz"
 checksum = "sha256"
 dist = true
+allow-dirty = ["ci"]
 
 
 # The profile that 'cargo dist' will build with