fix: Publish step in wokflow never reached

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -38,12 +38,17 @@ jobs:
           pip install python-semantic-release toml
 
       - name: Python Semantic Release
-        uses: python-semantic-release/[email protected] # Updated to match example version
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        id: release
+        uses: python-semantic-release/[email protected]
         with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Changed to use 'with' instead of 'env'
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Build and Publish with Maturin
-        if: steps.semantic_release.outputs.released == 'true' # Only run if a release was made
+        if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
         env:
           MATURIN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
-        run: maturin publish --username __token__ --password $MATURIN_PASSWORD
+        run: |
+          maturin build --release
+          maturin publish --username __token__ --password $MATURIN_PASSWORD