diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 97737a0c..3bb8c971 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 name: "Create release and publish packages to Sonatype"
 
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
+on: push
+
+#on:
+#  push:
+#    branches:
+#      - main
 
 permissions:
   id-token: write
@@ -44,18 +46,21 @@ jobs:
           LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))
           python3 .github/scripts/create_release.py ${LATEST_TAG} $(pwd)
       - name: Commit and push changes
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FULL_REPO_PRIVILEGES_PAT }}
         run: |
           NEW_TAG=$(cat CHANGELOG.md | grep -m1 -o 'v[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+')
           git config --global user.name "GitHub on behalf of Wellcome Collection"
           git config --global user.email "wellcomedigitalplatform@wellcome.ac.uk"
+          
+          git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:${{ secrets.FULL_REPO_PRIVILEGES_PAT }}@github.com/${{ github.repository }}.git
+          
           git checkout main
           git pull
+          
           git add CHANGELOG.md build.sbt
           git rm RELEASE.md
           git commit -m "$(printf "Release: Bump version to ${NEW_TAG}\n\n[skip ci]")"
           git tag ${NEW_TAG}
+
           git push origin main
           git push origin --tags
 
@@ -65,47 +70,47 @@ jobs:
   # - Configuring Sonatype credentials
   # - Publishing the packages to a local staging repository using the sbt-sonatype plugin
   # - Releasing the published bundle to Sonatype
-  publish:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: create-release
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        service:
-          - fixtures
-          - http
-          - json
-          - typesafe_app
-          - monitoring
-          - monitoring_typesafe
-          - messaging
-          - messaging_typesafe
-          - storage
-          - storage_typesafe
-          - elasticsearch
-          - elasticsearch_typesafe
-          - sierra
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          # Checkout the latest version, which includes the changes pushed by the previous step!
-          # If we didn't do this, we would be publishing using the previous version tag.
-          ref: main
-      - name: Set up GPG
-        run: |
-          echo "${{ secrets.BASE64_GPG_KEY }}" | base64 -d > secret-keys.gpg
-          echo "${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}" | gpg --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --import secret-keys.gpg
-          rm secret-keys.gpg
-      - name: Set up Sonatype credentials
-        run: |
-          mkdir ~/.sbt
-          echo "${{ secrets.SONATYPE_CREDENTIALS }}" > ~/.sbt/sonatype.credentials
-      - name: Setup JDK
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
-        with:
-          distribution: temurin
-          java-version: 17
-          cache: sbt
-      - name: Publish to Sonatype
-        run: |
-          PGP_PASSPHRASE=${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }} sbt "project ${{ matrix.service }}" publishSigned
-          sbt "project ${{ matrix.service }}" sonatypeBundleRelease
+#  publish:
+#    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+#    needs: create-release
+#    strategy:
+#      matrix:
+#        service:
+#          - fixtures
+#          - http
+#          - json
+#          - typesafe_app
+#          - monitoring
+#          - monitoring_typesafe
+#          - messaging
+#          - messaging_typesafe
+#          - storage
+#          - storage_typesafe
+#          - elasticsearch
+#          - elasticsearch_typesafe
+#          - sierra
+#    steps:
+#      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+#        with:
+#          # Checkout the latest version, which includes the changes pushed by the previous step!
+#          # If we didn't do this, we would be publishing using the previous version tag.
+#          ref: main
+#      - name: Set up GPG
+#        run: |
+#          echo "${{ secrets.BASE64_GPG_KEY }}" | base64 -d > secret-keys.gpg
+#          echo "${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}" | gpg --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --import secret-keys.gpg
+#          rm secret-keys.gpg
+#      - name: Set up Sonatype credentials
+#        run: |
+#          mkdir ~/.sbt
+#          echo "${{ secrets.SONATYPE_CREDENTIALS }}" > ~/.sbt/sonatype.credentials
+#      - name: Setup JDK
+#        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+#        with:
+#          distribution: temurin
+#          java-version: 17
+#          cache: sbt
+#      - name: Publish to Sonatype
+#        run: |
+#          PGP_PASSPHRASE=${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }} sbt "project ${{ matrix.service }}" publishSigned
+#          sbt "project ${{ matrix.service }}" sonatypeBundleRelease