From 6c72a51416893eb0eebbe63d0f2a0151952cab59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Gr=C3=B6nholm?= <alex.gronholm@nextday.fi>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:39:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backported release job from master

---
 .github/workflows/publish.yml | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 7e4ee74d6..e13b6022e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -41,3 +41,19 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
     - name: Upload packages
       uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+
+  release:
+    name: Create a GitHub release
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - id: changelog
+      uses: agronholm/release-notes@v1
+      with:
+        path: docs/versionhistory.rst
+    - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+      with:
+        body: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}