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+name: release
+
+# Only do the release on x.y.z tags.
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+"
+
+# We need this to be able to create releases.
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  # The create-release job runs purely to initialize the GitHub release itself,
+  # and names the release after the `x.y.z` tag that was pushed. It's separate
+  # from building the release so that we only create the release once.
+  create-release:
+    name: create-release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Get the release version from the tag
+        if: env.VERSION == ''
+        run: echo "VERSION=${{ github.ref_name }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Show the version
+        run: |
+          echo "version is: $VERSION"
+      - name: Check that tag version and Cargo.toml version are the same
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          if ! grep -q "version = \"$VERSION\"" Cargo.toml; then
+            echo "version does not match Cargo.toml" >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+      - name: Create GitHub release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: gh release create $VERSION --draft --verify-tag --title $VERSION
+    outputs:
+      version: ${{ env.VERSION }}
+
+  build-release:
+    name: build-release
+    needs: ["create-release"]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    env:
+      # For some builds, we use cross to test on 32-bit and big-endian
+      # systems.
+      CARGO: cargo
+      # When CARGO is set to CROSS, this is set to `--target matrix.target`.
+      TARGET_FLAGS:
+      # When CARGO is set to CROSS, TARGET_DIR includes matrix.target.
+      TARGET_DIR: ./target
+      # Bump this as appropriate. We pin to a version to make sure CI
+      # continues to work as cross releases in the past have broken things
+      # in subtle ways.
+      CROSS_VERSION: v0.2.5
+      # Emit backtraces on panics.
+      RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
+      # Build static releases with PCRE2.
+      PCRE2_SYS_STATIC: 1
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - build: linux
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: nightly
+            target: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+            strip: x86_64-linux-musl-strip
+          - build: stable-x86
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: stable
+            target: i686-unknown-linux-gnu
+            strip: x86_64-linux-gnu-strip
+            qemu: i386
+          - build: stable-aarch64
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: stable
+            target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            strip: aarch64-linux-gnu-strip
+            qemu: qemu-aarch64
+          - build: stable-arm-gnueabihf
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: stable
+            target: armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
+            strip: arm-linux-gnueabihf-strip
+            qemu: qemu-arm
+          - build: stable-arm-musleabihf
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: stable
+            target: armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
+            strip: arm-linux-musleabihf-strip
+            qemu: qemu-arm
+          - build: stable-arm-musleabi
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            rust: stable
+            target: armv7-unknown-linux-musleabi
+            strip: arm-linux-musleabi-strip
+            qemu: qemu-arm
+          - build: macos
+            os: macos-latest
+            rust: nightly
+            target: x86_64-apple-darwin
+          - build: win-msvc
+            os: windows-latest
+            rust: nightly
+            target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+          - build: win-gnu
+            os: windows-latest
+            rust: nightly-x86_64-gnu
+            target: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
+          - build: win32-msvc
+            os: windows-latest
+            rust: nightly
+            target: i686-pc-windows-msvc
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # - name: Install packages (Ubuntu)
+      #   if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     ci/ubuntu-install-packages
+
+      - name: Install Rust
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master
+        with:
+          toolchain: ${{ matrix.rust }}
+          target: ${{ matrix.target }}
+
+      - name: Use Cross
+        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' && matrix.target != ''
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # In the past, new releases of 'cross' have broken CI. So for now, we
+          # pin it. We also use their pre-compiled binary releases because cross
+          # has over 100 dependencies and takes a bit to compile.
+          dir="$RUNNER_TEMP/cross-download"
+          mkdir "$dir"
+          echo "$dir" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          cd "$dir"
+          curl -LO "https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/releases/download/$CROSS_VERSION/cross-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
+          tar xf cross-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
+          echo "CARGO=cross" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Set target variables
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "TARGET_FLAGS=--target ${{ matrix.target }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "TARGET_DIR=./target/${{ matrix.target }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Show command used for Cargo
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "cargo command is: ${{ env.CARGO }}"
+          echo "target flag is: ${{ env.TARGET_FLAGS }}"
+          echo "target dir is: ${{ env.TARGET_DIR }}"
+
+      - name: Build release binary
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          ${{ env.CARGO }} build --verbose --release --features pcre2 ${{ env.TARGET_FLAGS }}
+          if [ "${{ matrix.os }}" = "windows-latest" ]; then
+            bin="target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/rg.exe"
+          else
+            bin="target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/rg"
+          fi
+          echo "BIN=$bin" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Strip release binary (macos)
+        if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
+        shell: bash
+        run: strip "$BIN"
+
+      - name: Strip release binary (cross)
+        if: env.CARGO == 'cross'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm -v \
+            "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+            "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+            "${{ matrix.strip }}" \
+            "/$BIN"
+
+      - name: Determine archive name
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          version="${{ needs.create-release.outputs.version }}"
+          echo "ARCHIVE=vial-$version-${{ matrix.target }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      # - name: Creating directory for archive
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     mkdir -p "$ARCHIVE"/{complete,doc}
+      #     cp "$BIN" "$ARCHIVE"/
+      #     cp {README.md,COPYING,UNLICENSE,LICENSE-MIT} "$ARCHIVE"/
+      #     cp {CHANGELOG.md,FAQ.md,GUIDE.md} "$ARCHIVE"/doc/
+
+      # - name: Generate man page and completions (no emulation)
+      #   if: matrix.qemu == ''
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     "$BIN" --version
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-bash > "$ARCHIVE/complete/rg.bash"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-fish > "$ARCHIVE/complete/rg.fish"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-powershell > "$ARCHIVE/complete/_rg.ps1"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-zsh > "$ARCHIVE/complete/_rg"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate man > "$ARCHIVE/doc/rg.1"
+      #
+      # - name: Generate man page and completions (emulation)
+      #   if: matrix.qemu != ''
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" --version
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" \
+      #         --generate complete-bash > "$ARCHIVE/complete/rg.bash"
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" \
+      #         --generate complete-fish > "$ARCHIVE/complete/rg.fish"
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" \
+      #         --generate complete-powershell > "$ARCHIVE/complete/_rg.ps1"
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" \
+      #         --generate complete-zsh > "$ARCHIVE/complete/_rg"
+      #     docker run --rm -v \
+      #       "$PWD/target:/target:Z" \
+      #       "ghcr.io/cross-rs/${{ matrix.target }}:main" \
+      #       "${{ matrix.qemu }}" "/$BIN" \
+      #         --generate man > "$ARCHIVE/doc/rg.1"
+
+      - name: Build archive (Windows)
+        shell: bash
+        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
+        run: |
+          7z a "$ARCHIVE.zip" "$ARCHIVE"
+          certutil -hashfile "$ARCHIVE.zip" SHA256 > "$ARCHIVE.zip.sha256"
+          echo "ASSET=$ARCHIVE.zip" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "ASSET_SUM=$ARCHIVE.zip.sha256" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Build archive (Unix)
+        shell: bash
+        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
+        run: |
+          tar czf "$ARCHIVE.tar.gz" "$ARCHIVE"
+          shasum -a 256 "$ARCHIVE.tar.gz" > "$ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256"
+          echo "ASSET=$ARCHIVE.tar.gz" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "ASSET_SUM=$ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Upload release archive
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          version="${{ needs.create-release.outputs.version }}"
+          gh release upload "$version" ${{ env.ASSET }} ${{ env.ASSET_SUM }}
+
+  build-release-deb:
+    name: build-release-deb
+    needs: ["create-release"]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      TARGET: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+      # Emit backtraces on panics.
+      RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
+      # Since we're distributing the dpkg, we don't know whether the user will
+      # have PCRE2 installed, so just do a static build.
+      PCRE2_SYS_STATIC: 1
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # - name: Install packages (Ubuntu)
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     ci/ubuntu-install-packages
+
+      - name: Install Rust
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master
+        with:
+          toolchain: nightly
+          target: ${{ env.TARGET }}
+
+      - name: Install cargo-deb
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo install cargo-deb
+
+      # 'cargo deb' does not seem to provide a way to specify an asset that is
+      # created at build time, such as ripgrep's man page. To work around this,
+      # we force a debug build, copy out the man page (and shell completions)
+      # produced from that build, put it into a predictable location and then
+      # build the deb, which knows where to look.
+      - name: Build debug binary to create release assets
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo build --target ${{ env.TARGET }}
+          bin="target/${{ env.TARGET }}/debug/rg"
+          echo "BIN=$bin" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Create deployment directory
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          dir=deployment/deb
+          mkdir -p "$dir"
+          echo "DEPLOY_DIR=$dir" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      # - name: Generate man page
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     "$BIN" --generate man > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.1"
+
+      # - name: Generate shell completions
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: |
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-bash > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.bash"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-fish > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.fish"
+      #     "$BIN" --generate complete-zsh > "$DEPLOY_DIR/_rg"
+
+      - name: Build release binary
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo deb --profile deb --target ${{ env.TARGET }}
+          version="${{ needs.create-release.outputs.version }}"
+          echo "DEB_DIR=target/${{ env.TARGET }}/debian" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "DEB_NAME=ripgrep_$version-1_amd64.deb" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Create sha256 sum of deb file
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd "$DEB_DIR"
+          sum="$DEB_NAME.sha256"
+          shasum -a 256 "$DEB_NAME" > "$sum"
+          echo "SUM=$sum" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Upload release archive
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cd "$DEB_DIR"
+          version="${{ needs.create-release.outputs.version }}"
+          gh release upload "$version" "$DEB_NAME" "$SUM"