diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 40d2cdb45..9451f6465 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -14,237 +14,135 @@
 name: Release
 
 on:
-  release:
-    types: [published]
   schedule:
-    - cron: "0 1 * * 1-5"
+    - cron: "0 0 * * 1-5"
   workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      live-run:
+        type: boolean
+        description: Live-run
+        required: false
+      version:
+        type: string
+        description: Release number
+        required: false
+      zenoh-version:
+        type: string
+        description: Release number of Zenoh
+        required: false
 
 jobs:
-  checks:
-    name: Code checks
+  tag:
+    name: Branch, Bump & tag
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Install Rust toolchain
-        run: rustup component add rustfmt clippy
-
-      - name: Code format check
-        run: cargo fmt --check
-
-      - name: Clippy check
-        run: cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- --deny warnings
-
-      - name: Environment setup
-        id: env
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          # log some info
-          gcc --version || true
-          rustup -V
-          rustup toolchain list
-          rustup default
-          cargo -V
-          rustc -V
-
-          echo "GITHUB_REF=${GITHUB_REF}"
-          echo "GITHUB_SHA=${GITHUB_SHA:0:8}"
-          GIT_BRANCH=`[[ $GITHUB_REF =~ ^refs/heads/.* ]] && echo ${GITHUB_REF/refs\/heads\//} || true`
-          echo "GIT_BRANCH=${GIT_BRANCH}"
-          echo "GIT_BRANCH=${GIT_BRANCH}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          GIT_TAG=`[[ $GITHUB_REF =~ ^refs/tags/.* ]] && echo ${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\//} || true`
-          echo "GIT_TAG=${GIT_TAG}"
-          echo "GIT_TAG=${GIT_TAG}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-          ZENOH_VERSION=$(sed -n 's/^version = "\(.*\)"/\1/p' Cargo.toml | head -n1)
-          echo "ZENOH_VERSION=${ZENOH_VERSION}"
-          echo "ZENOH_VERSION=${ZENOH_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          if [ -n "${GIT_TAG}" ]; then
-            IS_RELEASE="true"
-            echo "IS_RELEASE=${IS_RELEASE}"
-            echo "IS_RELEASE=${IS_RELEASE}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            PKG_VERSION=${ZENOH_VERSION}
-          elif [ -n "${GIT_BRANCH}" ]; then
-            PKG_VERSION=${GIT_BRANCH}-${GITHUB_SHA:0:8}
-          else
-            PKG_VERSION=${ZENOH_VERSION}-${GITHUB_SHA:0:8}
-          fi
-          echo "PKG_VERSION=${PKG_VERSION}"
-          echo "PKG_VERSION=${PKG_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
     outputs:
-      GIT_BRANCH: ${{ steps.env.outputs.GIT_BRANCH }}
-      GIT_TAG: ${{ steps.env.outputs.GIT_TAG }}
-      IS_RELEASE: ${{ steps.env.outputs.IS_RELEASE }}
-      ZENOH_VERSION: ${{ steps.env.outputs.ZENOH_VERSION }}
-      PKG_VERSION: ${{ steps.env.outputs.PKG_VERSION }}
-
-  builds:
-    name: Build for ${{ matrix.job.target }} on ${{ matrix.job.os }}
-    needs: checks
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.job.os }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        job:
-          - { target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, arch: amd64, os: ubuntu-20.04, build-cmd: "cargo" }
-          - { target: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi, arch: armel, os: ubuntu-20.04, build-cmd: "cross" }
-          - {
-              target: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,
-              arch: armhf,
-              os: ubuntu-20.04,
-              build-cmd: "cross",
-            }
-          - {
-              target: armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf,
-              arch: armhf,
-              os: ubuntu-20.04,
-              build-cmd: "cross",
-            }
-          - { target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, arch: arm64, os: ubuntu-20.04, build-cmd: "cross" }
-          - { target: x86_64-apple-darwin, arch: darwin, os: macos-latest, build-cmd: "cargo" }
-          - { target: aarch64-apple-darwin, arch: darwin, os: macos-latest, build-cmd: "cargo" }
-          - { target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, arch: win64, os: windows-2019, build-cmd: "cargo" }
-          - { target: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, arch: win64, os: windows-2019, build-cmd: "cargo" }
-    env:
-      CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING: ON
+      version: ${{ steps.create-release-branch.outputs.version }}
+      branch: ${{ steps.create-release-branch.outputs.branch }}
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout source code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - id: create-release-branch
+        uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/create-release-branch@main
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 500 # NOTE: get long history for git-version crate to correctly compute a version
-      - name: Fetch Git tags # NOTE: workaround for https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/290
-        shell: bash
-        run: git fetch --tags --force
-      - name: Install prerequisites
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          case ${{ matrix.job.target }} in
-            *-linux-gnu*) cargo install cargo-deb ;;
-          esac
-
-          case ${{ matrix.job.target }} in
-            arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi)
-              sudo apt-get -y update
-              sudo apt-get -y install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi
-              ;;
-            arm*-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)
-              sudo apt-get -y update
-              sudo apt-get -y install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf
-              ;;
-            aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)
-              sudo apt-get -y update
-              sudo apt-get -y install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
-              ;;
-          esac
-
-          cargo install cross --git https://github.com/cross-rs/cross
-
-      - name: Install Rust toolchain
-        run: |
-          rustup set profile minimal
-          rustup target add ${{ matrix.job.target }}
-
-      - name: Build for ${{ matrix.job.target }} target
-        run: ${{ matrix.job.build-cmd }} build --release --target=${{ matrix.job.target }} --features=logger-autoinit --features=shared-memory
+          repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+          live-run: ${{ inputs.live-run }}
+          version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.BOT_TOKEN_WORKFLOW }}
 
-      - name: Debian package - libzenohc
-        if: contains(matrix.job.target, '-linux-gnu')
-        run: cargo deb --no-build --no-strip --target=${{ matrix.job.target }} --variant=libzenohc
-
-      - name: Debian package - libzenohc-dev
-        if: contains(matrix.job.target, '-linux-gnu')
-        run: cargo deb --no-build --no-strip --target=${{ matrix.job.target }} --variant=libzenohc-dev
-
-      - name: Packaging
-        id: package
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          TARGET=${{ matrix.job.target }}
-          LIB_PKG_NAME="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/zenoh-c-${{ needs.checks.outputs.PKG_VERSION }}-${TARGET}.zip"
-          DEBS_PKG_NAME="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/zenoh-c-${{ needs.checks.outputs.PKG_VERSION }}-${TARGET}-deb-pkgs.zip"
-
-          case ${TARGET} in
-            *linux*)
-              cd "target/${TARGET}/release/"
-              echo "Packaging ${LIB_PKG_NAME}:"
-              mkdir lib && cp libzenohc.so lib/
-              zip -r ${LIB_PKG_NAME} lib
-              cd -
-              zip -r ${LIB_PKG_NAME} include
-              echo "LIB_PKG_NAME=${LIB_PKG_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-              # check if debian packages has been created and packages them in a single tgz
-              if [[ -d target/${TARGET}/debian ]]; then
-                cd target/${TARGET}/debian
-                echo "Packaging ${DEBS_PKG_NAME}:"
-                zip ${DEBS_PKG_NAME} *.deb
-                cd -
-                echo "DEBS_PKG_NAME=${DEBS_PKG_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              fi
-              ;;
-            *apple*)
-              cd "target/${TARGET}/release/"
-              echo "Packaging ${LIB_PKG_NAME}:"
-              mkdir lib && cp libzenohc.dylib lib/
-              zip -r ${LIB_PKG_NAME} lib
-              cd -
-              zip -r ${LIB_PKG_NAME} include
-              echo "LIB_PKG_NAME=${LIB_PKG_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            *windows*)
-              cd "target/${TARGET}/release/"
-              echo "Packaging ${LIB_PKG_NAME}:"
-              mkdir lib && cp zenohc.dll lib/
-              7z -y -r a "${LIB_PKG_NAME}" lib
-              cd -
-              7z -y -r a "${LIB_PKG_NAME}" include
-              echo "LIB_PKG_NAME=${LIB_PKG_NAME}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-          esac
-
-      - name: "Upload packages"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: ${{ matrix.job.target }}
-          path: |
-            ${{ steps.package.outputs.LIB_PKG_NAME }}
-            ${{ steps.package.outputs.DEBS_PKG_NAME }}
-
-  publication:
-    name: Publish the release
-    if: needs.checks.outputs.IS_RELEASE == 'true'
-    needs: [checks, builds]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Download result of previous builds
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          path: ARTIFACTS
-      - name: Publish as github release
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
-        with:
-          files: ARTIFACTS/*/*.*
-      - name: Publish to download.eclipse.org/zenoh
+      - name: Bump and tag project
+        run: bash ci/scripts/bump-and-tag.bash
         env:
-          SSH_TARGET: genie.zenoh@projects-storage.eclipse.org
-          ECLIPSE_BASE_DIR: /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/zenoh/zenoh-c
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          echo "--- setup ssh-agent"
-          eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
-          echo 'echo "${{ secrets.SSH_PASSPHRASE }}"' > ~/.ssh_askpass && chmod +x ~/.ssh_askpass
-          echo "${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}" | tr -d '\r' | DISPLAY=NONE SSH_ASKPASS=~/.ssh_askpass ssh-add - > /dev/null 2>&1
-          rm -f ~/.ssh_askpass
-          echo "--- test ssh:"
-          ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" ${SSH_TARGET} ls -al
-          echo "---- list artifacts to upload:"
-          ls -R ARTIFACTS || true
-          DOWNLOAD_DIR=${ECLIPSE_BASE_DIR}/${{ needs.checks.outputs.ZENOH_VERSION }}
-          echo "---- copy artifacts into ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}"
-          ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" ${SSH_TARGET} mkdir -p ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}
-          cd ARTIFACTS
-          sha256sum */* > sha256sums.txt
-          scp -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" -r * ${SSH_TARGET}:${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/
-          echo "---- cleanup identity"
-          ssh-add -D
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          VERSION: ${{ steps.create-release-branch.outputs.version }}
+          BRANCH: ${{ steps.create-release-branch.outputs.branch }}
+          BUMP_DEPS_VERSION: ${{ inputs.zenoh-version }}
+          BUMP_DEPS_PATTERN: ${{ inputs.zenoh-version && 'zenoh.*' || '^$' }}
+          BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.zenoh-version && format('release/{0}', inputs.zenoh-version) || '' }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.BOT_TOKEN_WORKFLOW }}
+          GIT_USER_NAME: eclipse-zenoh-bot
+          GIT_USER_EMAIL: eclipse-zenoh-bot@users.noreply.github.com
+
+  build-debian:
+    name: Build Debian packages
+    needs: tag
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/build-crates-debian.yml@main
+    with:
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  build-standalone:
+    name: Build executables and libraries
+    needs: tag
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/build-crates-standalone.yml@main
+    with:
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+      artifact-patterns: |
+        ^libzenohc\.(dylib|so)$
+        ^zenohc\.dll$
+        ^include$
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  debian:
+    name: Publish Debian packages
+    needs: [tag, build-debian]
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/release-crates-debian.yml@main
+    with:
+      no-build: true
+      live-run: ${{ inputs.live-run || false }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+      installation-test: false
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  homebrew:
+    name: Publish Homebrew formulae
+    needs: [tag, build-standalone]
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/release-crates-homebrew.yml@main
+    with:
+      no-build: true
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      live-run: ${{ inputs.live-run || false }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+      artifact-patterns: |
+        ^libzenohc\.dylib$
+        ^include$
+      formulae: |
+        libzenohc
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  eclipse:
+    name: Publish artifacts to Eclipse downloads
+    needs: [tag, build-standalone]
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/release-crates-eclipse.yml@main
+    with:
+      no-build: true
+      live-run: ${{ inputs.live-run || false }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+      artifact-patterns: |
+        ^libzenohc\.(dylib|so)$
+        ^zenohc\.dll$
+        ^include$
+      name: zenoh-c
+    secrets: inherit
+
+  github:
+    name: Publish artifacts to GitHub Releases
+    needs: [tag, build-standalone]
+    uses: eclipse-zenoh/ci/.github/workflows/release-crates-github.yml@main
+    with:
+      no-build: true
+      live-run: ${{ inputs.live-run || false }}
+      version: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.version }}
+      repo: ${{ github.repository }}
+      branch: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.branch }}
+      artifact-patterns: |
+        ^libzenohc\.(dylib|so)$
+        ^zenohc\.dll$
+        ^include$
+    secrets: inherit
diff --git a/ci/scripts/bump.bash b/ci/scripts/bump.bash
index e77d3ae1c..3c3bae3cf 100644
--- a/ci/scripts/bump.bash
+++ b/ci/scripts/bump.bash
@@ -2,12 +2,24 @@
 
 set -eo pipefail
 
-# Project version
+# Repository
+readonly REPO
+# Release number
 readonly VERSION
-# Zenoh dependencies' version
-readonly ZENOH_VERSION
-# Zenoh dependencies' git branch
-readonly ZENOH_BRANCH
+# Release branch
+readonly BRANCH
+# Dependencies' pattern
+readonly BUMP_DEPS_PATTERN
+# Dependencies' version
+readonly BUMP_DEPS_VERSION
+# Dependencies' git branch
+readonly BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH
+# GitHub token
+readonly GH_TOKEN
+# Git actor name
+readonly GIT_USER_NAME
+# Git actor email
+readonly GIT_USER_EMAIL
 
 cargo +stable install toml-cli
 
@@ -19,6 +31,13 @@ function toml_set_in_place() {
   mv "$tmp" "$1"
 }
 
+export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$GIT_USER_NAME
+export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$GIT_USER_EMAIL
+export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=$GIT_USER_NAME
+export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=$GIT_USER_EMAIL
+
+git clone --recursive --single-branch --branch "$BRANCH" "https://github.com/$REPO"
+
 # Bump CMake project version
 sed -i "s;^set(ZENOHC_VERSION .*)$;set(ZENOHC_VERSION $VERSION);" CMakeLists.txt
 # Propagate version change to Cargo.toml and Cargo.toml.in
@@ -31,24 +50,30 @@ toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml.in "package.metadata.deb.variants.libzenohc-dev.dep
 
 git commit CMakeLists.txt Cargo.toml Cargo.toml.in Cargo.lock -m "chore: Bump version to $VERSION"
 
-# Select all package dependencies that match 'zenoh.*' and bump them to $ZENOH_VERSION
-zenoh_deps=$(toml get Cargo.toml dependencies | jq -r 'keys.[] | select(test("zenoh.*"))')
-for dep in $zenoh_deps; do
-  if [[ -n $ZENOH_VERSION ]]; then
-    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml "dependencies.$dep.version" "$ZENOH_VERSION"
-    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml.in "dependencies.$dep.version" "$ZENOH_VERSION"
+# Select all package dependencies that match $BUMP_DEPS_PATTERN and bump them to $BUMP_DEPS_VERSION
+deps=$(toml get Cargo.toml dependencies | jq -r "keys.[] | select(test(\"$BUMP_DEPS_PATTERN\"))")
+for dep in $deps; do
+  if [[ -n $BUMP_DEPS_VERSION ]]; then
+    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml "dependencies.$dep.version" "$BUMP_DEPS_VERSION"
+    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml.in "dependencies.$dep.version" "$BUMP_DEPS_VERSION"
   fi
 
-  if [[ -n $ZENOH_BRANCH ]]; then
-    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml "dependencies.$dep.branch" "$ZENOH_BRANCH"
-    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml.in "dependencies.$dep.branch" "$ZENOH_BRANCH"
+  if [[ -n $BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH ]]; then
+    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml "dependencies.$dep.branch" "$BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH"
+    toml_set_in_place Cargo.toml.in "dependencies.$dep.branch" "$BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH"
   fi
 done
 # Update lockfile
 cargo check
 
-if [[ -n $ZENOH_VERSION || -n $ZENOH_BRANCH ]]; then
-  git commit Cargo.toml Cargo.toml.in Cargo.lock -m "chore: Bump Zenoh version to $ZENOH_VERSION"
+if [[ -n $BUMP_DEPS_VERSION || -n $BUMP_DEPS_BRANCH ]]; then
+  git commit Cargo.toml Cargo.toml.in Cargo.lock -m "chore: Bump $BUMP_DEPS_PATTERN
+ version to $BUMP_DEPS_VERSION"
 else
-  echo "info: no changes have been made to Zenoh dependencies"
+  echo "info: no changes have been made to any dependencies"
 fi
+
+git tag "$VERSION" -m "v$VERSION"
+git log -10
+git show-ref --tags
+git push "https://$GH_TOKEN@github.com/$REPO" "$BRANCH" "$VERSION"