diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml b/.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a03dbf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: create-github-release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - prerelease/**
+    tags-ignore:
+      - "*"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      prerelease:
+        type: string
+        description: "Name to use for the prerelease: beta, dev, etc. NOTE: If this is already set in the package.json, it does not need to be passed in here."
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml@main
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      prerelease: ${{ inputs.prerelease }}
+      # If this is a push event, we want to skip the release if there are no semantic commits
+      # However, if this is a manual release (workflow_dispatch), then we want to disable skip-on-empty
+      # This helps recover from forgetting to add semantic commits ('fix:', 'feat:', etc.)
+      skip-on-empty: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' }}
+  # docs:
+  #   # Most repos won't use this
+  #   # Depends on the 'release' job to avoid git collisions, not for any functionality reason
+  #   needs: release
+  #   secrets: inherit
+  #   if: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' }}
+  #   uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/publishTypedoc.yml@main
diff --git a/.github/workflows/failureNotifications.yml b/.github/workflows/failureNotifications.yml
index 3f7c0d4..796eb46 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/failureNotifications.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/failureNotifications.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 name: failureNotifications
-
 on:
   workflow_run:
     workflows:
       - version, tag and github release
       - publish
+      - create-github-release
     types:
       - completed
-
 jobs:
   failure-notify:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/manualRelease.yml b/.github/workflows/manualRelease.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ceb52c..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/manualRelease.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-name: manual release
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.SVC_CLI_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Conventional Changelog Action
-        id: changelog
-        uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@d360fad3a42feca6462f72c97c165d60a02d4bf2
-        # overriding some of the basic behaviors to just get the changelog
-        with:
-          git-user-name: svc-cli-bot
-          git-user-email: svc_cli_bot@salesforce.com
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.SVC_CLI_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          output-file: false
-          # always do the release, even if there are no semantic commits
-          skip-on-empty: false
-          tag-prefix: ''
-      - uses: notiz-dev/github-action-json-property@2192e246737701f108a4571462b76c75e7376216
-        id: packageVersion
-        with:
-          path: 'package.json'
-          prop_path: 'version'
-      - name: Create Github Release
-        uses: actions/create-release@v1
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SVC_CLI_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        with:
-          tag_name: ${{ steps.packageVersion.outputs.prop }}
-          release_name: ${{ steps.packageVersion.outputs.prop }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/onPushToMain.yml b/.github/workflows/onPushToMain.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b00f1cb..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/onPushToMain.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# test
-name: version, tag and github release
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-
-jobs:
-  release:
-    uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/githubRelease.yml@main
-    secrets: inherit
-
-  # most repos won't use this
-  # depends on previous job to avoid git collisions, not for any functionality reason
-  # docs:
-  #   uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/publishTypedoc.yml@main
-  #   secrets: inherit
-  #   needs: release
diff --git a/.github/workflows/onRelease.yml b/.github/workflows/onRelease.yml
index 93e3878..afb4fbe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/onRelease.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/onRelease.yml
@@ -1,21 +1,33 @@
 name: publish
-
 on:
   release:
-    types: [released]
+    # both release and prereleases
+    types: [published]
   # support manual release in case something goes wrong and needs to be repeated or tested
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       tag:
-        description: tag that needs to publish
+        description: github tag that needs to publish
         type: string
         required: true
 jobs:
+  getDistTag:
+    outputs:
+      tag: ${{ steps.distTag.outputs.tag }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name || inputs.tag  }}
+      - uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/actions/getPreReleaseTag@main
+        id: distTag
   npm:
     uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/npmPublish.yml@main
+    needs: [getDistTag]
     with:
       ctc: true
       sign: true
-      tag: latest
+      tag: ${{ needs.getDistTag.outputs.tag || 'latest' }}
       githubTag: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name || inputs.tag }}
+
     secrets: inherit