diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 970068c..4c43eab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ name: Release
 on:
   push:
     tags:
-      - "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*"
+      # GitHub Actions uses glob patterns here, not regular expressions.
+      # The publish job below still requires an exact v<pyproject version> match.
+      - "v*"
 
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