diff --git a/.github/changelog-application.yml b/.github/changelog-application.yml
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--- a/.github/changelog-application.yml
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-changelog:
-  repository: ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}
-#  contributors:
-#    exclude:
-#      names: ${REPO_TEAM}
-github:
-  username: spring-builds
-  password: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog-for-milestone.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog-for-milestone.yml
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index 483df0f7..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/changelog-for-milestone.yml
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@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-name: Generate Changelog for Provided Milestone
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      milestone:
-        description: 'Milestone title, e.g 3.0.0-M1, 3.1.0-RC1, 3.2.0 etc.'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      repositoryTeam:
-        description: 'Comma-separate GitHub user names for repository team members to exclude from contributors'
-        required: false
-        type: string
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      milestone:
-        description: 'Milestone title, e.g 3.0.0-M1, 3.1.0-RC1, 3.2.0 etc.'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      repositoryTeam:
-        description: 'Comma-separate GitHub user names for repository team members to exclude from contributors'
-        required: false
-        type: string
-
-jobs:
-  generate-changelog:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-
-      - name: Checkout Common Repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          repository: spring-projects/spring-integration-aws
-          show-progress: false
-
-      - name: Set up JDK
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
-        with:
-          distribution: adopt
-          java-version: 17
-
-      - name: Generate Changelog
-        run: |
-          wget -q https://github.com/spring-io/github-changelog-generator/releases/download/v0.0.8/github-changelog-generator.jar
-          java -jar github-changelog-generator.jar --spring.config.location=.github/changelog-application.yml ${{ inputs.milestone }} changelog.md
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_ACTIONS_REPO_TOKEN }}
-          REPO_TEAM: "[ ${{ inputs.repositoryTeam }} ]"
-
-      - name: Print Changelog
-        run: echo "::notice ::$(cat changelog.md)"
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-close-milestone.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-close-milestone.yml
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--- a/.github/workflows/ci-close-milestone.yml
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Close Milestone
-
-on:
-  release:
-    types: [published]
-
-jobs:
-  close-milestone:
-    uses: spring-projects/spring-integration-aws/.github/workflows/close-milestone-on-release.yml@main
-    with:
-      releaseTag: ${{ github.ref_name }}
-    secrets: inherit
diff --git a/.github/workflows/close-milestone-on-release.yml b/.github/workflows/close-milestone-on-release.yml
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index 70bede49..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/close-milestone-on-release.yml
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@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-name: Close Milestone and Notify Slack
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      releaseTag:
-        description: 'The tag of the release for Milestone to close. Usually starts with `v`'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      releaseTag:
-        description: 'The tag of the release for Milestone to close. Usually starts with `v`'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-
-jobs:
-  close-milestone:
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-
-      - name: Close Milestone
-        id: milestone-id
-        run: |
-          TAG=${{ inputs.releaseTag }}
-          export MILESTONE_NAME=${TAG#v}
-          MILESTONE_ID=$(gh api repos/$OWNER/$REPO/milestones --jq '.[] | select(.title == env.MILESTONE_NAME) | .number')
-          if [ $MILESTONE_ID ]; then
-            gh api -X PATCH repos/$OWNER/$REPO/milestones/$MILESTONE_ID -f state='closed' --silent
-          fi
-          echo version=$MILESTONE_NAME >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_ACTIONS_REPO_TOKEN }}
-          OWNER: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
-          REPO: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
-
-#      - name: Announce Release on Slack
-#        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.24.0
-#        env:
-#          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SPRING_RELEASE_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-#          SLACK_WEBHOOK_TYPE: INCOMING_WEBHOOK
-#        with:
-#          payload: |
-#            {
-#              "text": "${{ github.event.repository.name }}-announcing `${{ steps.milestone-id.outputs.version }}`"
-#            }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/finalize-release.yml b/.github/workflows/finalize-release.yml
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+name: Create GH release and Notify Slack
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      milestone:
+        description: 'Milestone title, e.g 3.0.0-M1, 3.1.0-RC1, 3.2.0 etc.'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      repositoryTeam:
+        description: 'Comma-separate GitHub user names for repository team members to exclude from contributors'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      milestone:
+        description: 'Milestone title, e.g 3.0.0-M1, 3.1.0-RC1, 3.2.0 etc.'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      repositoryTeam:
+        description: 'Comma-separate GitHub user names for repository team members to exclude from contributors'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+
+env:
+  MILESTONE: ${{ inputs.milestone }}
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_ACTIONS_REPO_TOKEN }}
+
+jobs:
+  finalize-releae:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Generate Changelog
+        run: |
+          wget -q https://github.com/spring-io/github-changelog-generator/releases/download/v0.0.8/github-changelog-generator.jar
+          
+          java -jar github-changelog-generator.jar $MILESTONE changelog.md \
+            --changelog.repository=$GITHUB_REPOSITORY \
+            --github.username=spring-builds \
+            --github.password=${{ secrets.GH_ACTIONS_REPO_TOKEN }} \
+            --changelog.contributors.exclude.names=${{ inputs.repositoryTeam }}
+
+      - name: GitHub Release
+        run: gh release create v$MILESTONE -F changelog.md
+
+      - name: Close Milestone
+        run: |
+          MILESTONE_ID=$(gh api repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/milestones --jq '.[] | select(.title == env.$MILESTONE) | .number')
+          if [ $MILESTONE_ID ]; then
+            gh api -X PATCH repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/milestones/$MILESTONE_ID -f state='closed' --silent
+          fi
+
+      #      - name: Announce Release on Slack
+      #        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.24.0
+      #        env:
+      #          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SPRING_RELEASE_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
+      #          SLACK_WEBHOOK_TYPE: INCOMING_WEBHOOK
+      #        with:
+      #          payload: |
+      #            {
+      #              "text": "${{ github.event.repository.name }}-announcing `${{ env.MILESTONE }}`"
+      #            }
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