diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..82e5731c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2024, axodotdev
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
+#
+# CI that:
+#
+# * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
+# * builds artifacts with cargo-dist (archives, installers, hashes)
+# * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
+# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a GitHub Release
+#
+# Note that the GitHub Release will be created with a generated
+# title/body based on your changelogs.
+
+name: Release
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+# This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
+# like "1.0.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease.1", "my-app/0.1.0", "releases/v1.0.0", etc.
+# Various formats will be parsed into a VERSION and an optional PACKAGE_NAME, where
+# PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
+# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version (must have at least major.minor.patch).
+#
+# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then the announcement will be for that
+# package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't cargo-dist-able).
+#
+# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then the announcement will be for all
+# (cargo-dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this mode is
+# intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
+# packages versioned/released in lockstep).
+#
+# If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
+# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However, GitHub
+# will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
+# mistake.
+#
+# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the release(s)
+# will be marked as a prerelease.
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+
+jobs:
+  # Run 'cargo dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
+  plan:
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
+      tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && github.ref_name || '' }}
+      tag-flag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('--tag={0}', github.ref_name) || '' }}
+      publishing: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
+        # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
+        shell: bash
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.16.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # sure would be cool if github gave us proper conditionals...
+      # so here's a doubly-nested ternary-via-truthiness to try to provide the best possible
+      # functionality based on whether this is a pull_request, and whether it's from a fork.
+      # (PRs run on the *source* but secrets are usually on the *target* -- that's *good*
+      # but also really annoying to build CI around when it needs secrets to work right.)
+      - id: plan
+        run: |
+          cargo dist ${{ (!github.event.pull_request && format('host --steps=create --tag={0}', github.ref_name)) || 'plan' }} --output-format=json > plan-dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+          cat plan-dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." plan-dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: artifacts-plan-dist-manifest
+          path: plan-dist-manifest.json
+
+  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
+  build-local-artifacts:
+    name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
+    # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
+    needs:
+      - plan
+    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      # Target platforms/runners are computed by cargo-dist in create-release.
+      # Each member of the matrix has the following arguments:
+      #
+      # - runner: the github runner
+      # - dist-args: cli flags to pass to cargo dist
+      # - install-dist: expression to run to install cargo-dist on the runner
+      #
+      # Typically there will be:
+      # - 1 "global" task that builds universal installers
+      # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
+    steps:
+      - name: enable windows longpaths
+        run: |
+          git config --global core.longpaths true
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+        with:
+          key: ${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}
+          cache-provider: ${{ matrix.cache_provider }}
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+      # Get the dist-manifest
+      - name: Fetch local artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: artifacts-*
+          path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
+      - name: Build artifacts
+        run: |
+          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
+          cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+      - id: cargo-dist
+        name: Post-build
+        # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
+        # to "real" actions without writing to env-vars, and writing to env-vars has
+        # inconsistent syntax between shell and powershell.
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: artifacts-build-local-${{ join(matrix.targets, '_') }}
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+
+  # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things
+  build-global-artifacts:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - build-local-artifacts
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/global-dist-manifest.json
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        shell: bash
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.16.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # Get all the local artifacts for the global tasks to use (for e.g. checksums)
+      - name: Fetch local artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: artifacts-*
+          path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - id: cargo-dist
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --output-format=json "--artifacts=global" > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: "Upload artifacts"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: artifacts-build-global
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+  # Determines if we should publish/announce
+  host:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - build-local-artifacts
+      - build-global-artifacts
+    # Only run if we're "publishing", and only if local and global didn't fail (skipped is fine)
+    if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' && (needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.host.outputs.manifest }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install cargo-dist
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.16.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      # Fetch artifacts from scratch-storage
+      - name: Fetch artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: artifacts-*
+          path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
+      # This is a harmless no-op for GitHub Releases, hosting for that happens in "announce"
+      - id: host
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          cargo dist host ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --steps=upload --steps=release --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "artifacts uploaded and released successfully"
+          cat dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          # Overwrite the previous copy
+          name: artifacts-dist-manifest
+          path: dist-manifest.json
+
+  # Create a GitHub Release while uploading all files to it
+  announce:
+    needs:
+      - plan
+      - host
+    # use "always() && ..." to allow us to wait for all publish jobs while
+    # still allowing individual publish jobs to skip themselves (for prereleases).
+    # "host" however must run to completion, no skipping allowed!
+    if: ${{ always() && needs.host.result == 'success' }}
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: "Download GitHub Artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: artifacts-*
+          path: artifacts
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Cleanup
+        run: |
+          # Remove the granular manifests
+          rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
+      - name: Create GitHub Release
+        env:
+          PRERELEASE_FLAG: "${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_is_prerelease && '--prerelease' || '' }}"
+          ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE: "${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_title }}"
+          ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY: "${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_github_body }}"
+        run: |
+          # Write and read notes from a file to avoid quoting breaking things
+          echo "$ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY" > $RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt
+
+          gh release create "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" --title "$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt" $PRERELEASE_FLAG
+          gh release upload "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" artifacts/*
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cf4841a3b..47892dc27 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,12 +51,34 @@ deltalake = { version = "0.17.3" }
 cornucopia = { version = "0.9.0" }
 cornucopia_async = {version = "0.6.0"}
 deadpool-postgres = "0.12"
+
+# Config for 'cargo dist'
+[workspace.metadata.dist]
+# The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
+cargo-dist-version = "0.16.0"
+# CI backends to support
+ci = "github"
+# The installers to generate for each app
+installers = ["shell", "powershell", "homebrew"]
+# A GitHub repo to push Homebrew formulas to
+tap = "ArroyoSystems/homebrew-tap"
+# Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
+targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
+# Publish jobs to run in CI
+pr-run-mode = "plan"
+# Whether to install an updater program
+install-updater = false
 [profile.release]
 debug = 1
 
 [profile.dev]
 split-debuginfo = "unpacked"
 
+# The profile that 'cargo dist' will build with
+[profile.dist]
+inherits = "release"
+lto = "thin"
+
 
 [patch.crates-io]
 typify = { git = 'https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/typify.git', branch = 'arroyo' }
@@ -75,4 +97,4 @@ datafusion-physical-expr = {git = 'https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arrow-datafu
 datafusion-physical-plan = {git = 'https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arrow-datafusion', branch = '37.1.0_arroyo'}
 datafusion-proto = {git = 'https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arrow-datafusion', branch = '37.1.0_arroyo'}
 cornucopia_async = { git = "https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/cornucopia", branch = "sqlite" }
-cornucopia = { git = "https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/cornucopia", branch = "sqlite" }
\ No newline at end of file
+cornucopia = { git = "https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/cornucopia", branch = "sqlite" }
diff --git a/crates/copy-artifacts/Cargo.toml b/crates/copy-artifacts/Cargo.toml
index 6cff7f92f..df18a9dd7 100644
--- a/crates/copy-artifacts/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/copy-artifacts/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 name = "copy-artifacts"
 version = "0.12.0-dev"
 edition = "2021"
+publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 arroyo-storage = { path = "../arroyo-storage" }