diff --git a/.github/workflows/kubectl-plugin-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/kubectl-plugin-release.yaml
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+name: release-kubectl-plugin
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag:
+        description: 'Desired release version tag (e.g. v1.1.0-rc.1).'
+        required: true
+jobs:
+  release-kubectl-plugin:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
+          fetch-tags: 'true'
+      - name: Show tag
+        run: git show-ref --head --dereference | grep "$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
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-name: release
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - "v*.*.*"
-  workflow_dispatch:
-jobs:
-  release-kubectl-plugin:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@master
-      - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
-        with:
-          go-version: '1.22'
-      - name: GoReleaser
-        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v6
-        with:
-          distribution: 'goreleaser'
-          version: latest
-          args: release --clean
-          workdir: 'kubectl-plugin'
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      # TODO(MortalHappiness): This won't work now. The first version of plugin has to be submitted manually by use to the krew-index repo, so I'll submit a PR to the krew-index repo once a release candidate is created.
-      - name: Update new version in krew-index
-        uses: rajatjindal/krew-release-bot@v0.0.46