diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 90ae6ef..d9972ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 name: build
- 
+
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
     branches:
       - master
- 
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y raptor2-utils
-          pip install pyshacl
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y raptor2-utils
 
-      - name: Build and Validate
-        run: ./scripts/shacl
+      - name: Build
+        run: source ./scripts/combine
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52418a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: '[2-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]'
+jobs:
+  create-release:
+    name: Create release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      upload_url: ${{ steps.create-release.outputs.upload_url }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Build Changelog
+        id: build-changelog
+        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4
+        with:
+          commitMode: true
+          configurationJson: |
+            {
+              "pr_template": "- #{{TITLE}}"
+            }
+
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y raptor2-utils
+
+      # don't validate here because there is a separate SHACL action and there are unvalidated parts of SNIK that would fail the release
+      - name: Build
+        run: ./scripts/combine
+
+      - name: Create Release
+        id: create-release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          body: ${{steps.build-changelog.outputs.changelog}}
+          files: |
+            dist/snik.nt
+            dist/snik.ttl
diff --git a/.github/workflows/shacl.yml b/.github/workflows/shacl.yml
index 3b67f85..f3bb39c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/shacl.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/shacl.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 name: SHACL
- 
+
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
     branches:
       - master
- 
+
 jobs:
   shacl:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ffd1cd1..6976b7f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *~
 .*
 dist
+!.github