diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 9166155d..dda22ed0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ name: Release
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
+  id-token: write
+  attestations: 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.
@@ -38,15 +40,15 @@ permissions:
 # 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]+*'
-  pull_request:
 
 jobs:
   # Run 'cargo dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
   plan:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
     outputs:
       val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
       tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && github.ref_name || '' }}
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
         # 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/v0.14.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        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.
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ jobs:
       - 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
@@ -131,6 +134,10 @@ jobs:
           # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
           cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
           echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
+      - name: Attest
+        uses: actions/attest-build-provenance@v1
+        with:
+          subject-path: "target/distrib/*${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }}*"
       - id: cargo-dist
         name: Post-build
         # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
@@ -167,7 +174,7 @@ jobs:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
         shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.14.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        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
@@ -212,7 +219,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.14.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        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
@@ -262,10 +269,13 @@ jobs:
           # Remove the granular manifests
           rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
       - name: Create GitHub Release
-        uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
-        with:
-          tag: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}
-          name: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_title }}
-          body: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_github_body }}
-          prerelease: ${{ fromJson(needs.host.outputs.val).announcement_is_prerelease }}
-          artifacts: "artifacts/*"
+        env:
+          PRERELEASE_FLAG: "${{ 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 442037c8..c405fa98 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ rust-version = "1.70.0"
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.14.1"
+cargo-dist-version = "0.16.0"
 # CI backends to support
 ci = "github"
 # The installers to generate for each app
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-
 pr-run-mode = "plan"
 # Whether to install an updater program
 install-updater = false
+github-attestations = true
 
 # The profile that 'cargo dist' will build with
 [profile.dist]