diff --git a/.github/workflows/releases.yml b/.github/workflows/releases.yml
index ab921ec588d2..ca41130351e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/releases.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/releases.yml
@@ -21,52 +21,113 @@ on:
         type: string
 
 jobs:
-  # TODO: ADD JOB TO SWITCH THE GITHUB RELEASE FROM DRAFT TO LATEST
-  publish-sdkman:
-    uses:  ./.github/workflows/publish-sdkman.yml
-    with:
-      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-    secrets:
-      CONSUMER-KEY: ${{ secrets.SDKMAN_KEY }}
-      CONSUMER-TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SDKMAN_TOKEN }}
-
-  publish-winget:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/publish-winget.yml
-    with:
-      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-    secrets:
-      DOTTYBOT-TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOTTYBOT_WINGET_TOKEN }}
-
-  compute-digest:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    outputs:
-      digest: ${{ steps.digest.outputs.digest }}
+  republish_artifacts:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for GH CLI to create a release
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux]
+    container:
+      image: lampepfl/dotty:2024-10-18
+      options: --cpu-shares 4096
+      volumes:
+        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/sbt:/root/.sbt
+        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/ivy:/root/.ivy2/cache
+        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/general:/root/.cache
+
+    env:
+      RELEASEBUILD: yes
+
     steps:
-      - name: Compute the SHA256 of scala3-${{ inputs.version }}-x86_64-pc-win32.zip in GitHub Release
-        id: digest
+      ######################################################################################
+      ## WARNING: DO NOT CHANGE THE JAVA VERSION HERE. SCALA IS DISTRIBUTED USING JAVA 8. ##
+      ######################################################################################
+      - name: Set JDK 8 as default
+        run: echo "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Reset existing repo
         run: |
-          curl -o artifact.zip -L https://github.com/scala/scala3/releases/download/${{ inputs.version }}/scala3-${{ inputs.version }}-x86_64-pc-win32.zip
-          echo "digest=$(sha256sum artifact.zip | cut -d " " -f 1)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-
-  build-chocolatey:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-chocolatey.yml
-    needs: compute-digest
-    with:
-      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-      url    : 'https://github.com/scala/scala3/releases/download/${{ inputs.version }}/scala3-${{ inputs.version }}-x86_64-pc-win32.zip'
-      digest : ${{ needs.compute-digest.outputs.digest }}
-  test-chocolatey:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/test-chocolatey.yml
-    needs: build-chocolatey
-    with:
-      version     : ${{ inputs.version }}
-      java-version: 8
-  publish-chocolatey:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/publish-chocolatey.yml
-    needs: [ build-chocolatey, test-chocolatey ]
-    with:
-      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-    secrets:
-      API-KEY: ${{ secrets.CHOCOLATEY_KEY }}
-
-  # TODO: ADD RELEASE WORKFLOW TO CHOCOLATEY AND OTHER PACKAGE MANAGERS HERE
\ No newline at end of file
+          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
+          git -c "http.https://github.com/.extraheader=" fetch --recurse-submodules=no "https://github.com/scala/scala3" && git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD || true
+
+      - name: Checkout cleanup script
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Cleanup
+        run: .github/workflows/cleanup.sh
+
+      - name: Git Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Add SBT proxy repositories
+        run: cp -vf .github/workflows/repositories /root/.sbt/ ; true
+
+      - name: Check compiler version
+        shell: bash
+        run : |
+          version=$(./project/scripts/sbt "print scala3-compiler-bootstrapped/version" | tail -n1)
+          echo "This build version: ${version}"
+          if [ "${version}" != "${{ inputs.version }}" ]; then
+            echo "Compiler version for this build '${version}', does not match tag: ${{ inputs.version }}"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+
+      - name: Prepare the SDKs
+        shell: bash
+        run : |
+          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
+          prepareSDK() {
+            distroSuffix="$1"
+            sbtProject="$2"
+            distDir="$3"
+
+            # Build binaries
+            ./project/scripts/sbt "all ${sbtProject}/Universal/packageBin ${sbtProject}/Universal/packageZipTarball"
+
+            outputPath="${distDir}/target/universal/stage"
+            artifactName="scala3-${{ inputs.version }}${distroSuffix}"
+            zipArchive="${artifactName}.zip"
+            tarGzArchive="${artifactName}.tar.gz"
+
+            # Caluclate SHA for each of archive files
+            for file in "${zipArchive}" "${tarGzArchive}"; do
+              mv $outputPath/$file $file
+              sha256sum "${file}" > "${file}.sha256"
+            done
+          }
+          prepareSDK ""                      "dist"               "./dist/"
+          prepareSDK "-aarch64-pc-linux"     "dist-linux-aarch64" "./dist/linux-aarch64/"
+          prepareSDK "-x86_64-pc-linux"      "dist-linux-x86_64"  "./dist/linux-x86_64/"
+          prepareSDK "-aarch64-apple-darwin" "dist-mac-aarch64"   "./dist/mac-aarch64/"
+          prepareSDK "-x86_64-apple-darwin"  "dist-mac-x86_64"    "./dist/mac-x86_64/"
+          prepareSDK "-x86_64-pc-win32"      "dist-win-x86_64"    "./dist/win-x86_64/"
+
+      # - name: Download MSI package
+      #   uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+      #   with:
+      #     name: scala.msi
+      #     path: .
+      # - name: Prepare MSI package
+      #   shell: bash
+      #   run: | 
+      #     msiInstaller="scala3-${{ inputs.version }}.msi"
+      #     mv scala.msi "${msiInstaller}"
+      #     sha256sum "${msiInstaller}" > "${msiInstaller}.sha256"
+
+      - name: Install GH CLI
+        uses: dev-hanz-ops/install-gh-cli-action@v0.2.0
+        with:
+          gh-cli-version: 2.59.0 
+
+      # Create the GitHub release
+      - name: Create GitHub Release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
+          gh release upload ${{ inputs.version }} \
+          --clobber \
+          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.zip \
+          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.tar.gz \
+          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.sha256
+
+        # scala3-${{ inputs.version }}.msi 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/republish-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/republish-release.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index ea0ca43cb761..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/republish-release.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-name: Republish GH release
-
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      version:
-        required: true
-        type: string
-
-env:
-  DOTTY_CI_RUN: true
-
-# In this file, we set `--cpu-shares 4096` on every job. This might seem useless
-# since it means that every container has the same weight which should be
-# equivalent to doing nothing, but it turns out that OpenJDK computes
-# `Runtime.getRuntime.availableProcessors` by dividing the cpu-shares value if
-# it exists by 1024 (cf
-# http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2019-January/036087.html),
-# so this means that we effectively run every job with 4 cores. This is much
-# nicer than setting `--cpus 4` because the latter enforces CPU quotas and ends
-# up slowing our jobs more than needed. It's equivalent to running the JVM with
-# `-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=4`, but since our tests can spawn new JVM in many
-# places, it would be very hard to ensure that this option is always passed to
-# `java` (we could use the `_JAVA_OPTIONS` environment variable, but this prints
-# text on stderr and so can break tests which check the output of a program).
-
-jobs:
-  publish_release:
-    permissions:
-      contents: write  # for GH CLI to create a release
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux]
-    container:
-      image: lampepfl/dotty:2024-10-18
-      options: --cpu-shares 4096
-      volumes:
-        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/sbt:/root/.sbt
-        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/ivy:/root/.ivy2/cache
-        - ${{ github.workspace }}/../../cache/general:/root/.cache
-
-    env:
-      RELEASEBUILD: yes
-
-    steps:
-      ######################################################################################
-      ## WARNING: DO NOT CHANGE THE JAVA VERSION HERE. SCALA IS DISTRIBUTED USING JAVA 8. ##
-      ######################################################################################
-      - name: Set JDK 8 as default
-        run: echo "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
-      - name: Reset existing repo
-        run: |
-          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
-          git -c "http.https://github.com/.extraheader=" fetch --recurse-submodules=no "https://github.com/scala/scala3" && git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD || true
-
-      - name: Checkout cleanup script
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Cleanup
-        run: .github/workflows/cleanup.sh
-
-      - name: Git Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Add SBT proxy repositories
-        run: cp -vf .github/workflows/repositories /root/.sbt/ ; true
-
-      - name: Check compiler version
-        shell: bash
-        run : |
-          version=$(./project/scripts/sbt "print scala3-compiler-bootstrapped/version" | tail -n1)
-          echo "This build version: ${version}"
-          if [ "${version}" != "${{ inputs.version }}" ]; then
-            echo "Compiler version for this build '${version}', does not match tag: ${{ inputs.version }}"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-
-      - name: Prepare the SDKs
-        shell: bash
-        run : |
-          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
-          prepareSDK() {
-            distroSuffix="$1"
-            sbtProject="$2"
-            distDir="$3"
-
-            # Build binaries
-            ./project/scripts/sbt "all ${sbtProject}/Universal/packageBin ${sbtProject}/Universal/packageZipTarball"
-
-            outputPath="${distDir}/target/universal/stage"
-            artifactName="scala3-${{ inputs.version }}${distroSuffix}"
-            zipArchive="${artifactName}.zip"
-            tarGzArchive="${artifactName}.tar.gz"
-
-            # Caluclate SHA for each of archive files
-            for file in "${zipArchive}" "${tarGzArchive}"; do
-              mv $outputPath/$file $file
-              sha256sum "${file}" > "${file}.sha256"
-            done
-          }
-          prepareSDK ""                      "dist"               "./dist/"
-          prepareSDK "-aarch64-pc-linux"     "dist-linux-aarch64" "./dist/linux-aarch64/"
-          prepareSDK "-x86_64-pc-linux"      "dist-linux-x86_64"  "./dist/linux-x86_64/"
-          prepareSDK "-aarch64-apple-darwin" "dist-mac-aarch64"   "./dist/mac-aarch64/"
-          prepareSDK "-x86_64-apple-darwin"  "dist-mac-x86_64"    "./dist/mac-x86_64/"
-          prepareSDK "-x86_64-pc-win32"      "dist-win-x86_64"    "./dist/win-x86_64/"
-
-      # - name: Download MSI package
-      #   uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-      #   with:
-      #     name: scala.msi
-      #     path: .
-      # - name: Prepare MSI package
-      #   shell: bash
-      #   run: | 
-      #     msiInstaller="scala3-${{ inputs.version }}.msi"
-      #     mv scala.msi "${msiInstaller}"
-      #     sha256sum "${msiInstaller}" > "${msiInstaller}.sha256"
-
-      - name: Install GH CLI
-        uses: dev-hanz-ops/install-gh-cli-action@v0.2.0
-        with:
-          gh-cli-version: 2.59.0 
-
-      # Create the GitHub release
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/scala3/scala3
-          gh release upload ${{ inputs.version }} \
-          --clobber \
-          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.zip \
-          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.tar.gz \
-          scala3-${{ inputs.version }}*.sha256
-
-        # scala3-${{ inputs.version }}.msi