diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-1214.yml b/.github/workflows/build-1214.yml
index f18b087b..f670ae81 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-1214.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-1214.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ jobs:
     env:
       BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ github.run_number }}
       GRAALVM_ARGS: "-Dgraal.CompilerConfiguration=enterprise -Dgraal.UsePriorityInlining=true -Dgraal.Vectorization=true -Dgraal.OptDuplication=true -Dgraal.LoopUnroll=true -Dgraal.SpeculativeGuardMovement=true --add-modules jdk.incubator.vector"
-      GRADLE_OPTS: "-Dorg.gradle.parallel=true -Dorg.gradle.caching=true -Dorg.gradle.configureondemand=true -Dkotlin.incremental=true"
       GRADLE_MEMORY: "-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g"
       PATCH_PARALLELISM: "16"
     outputs:
@@ -19,8 +18,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@main
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 50
-      
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
       - name: Setup Gradle Cache
         uses: useblacksmith/cache@v5
         with:
@@ -35,24 +34,23 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-${{ hashFiles('**/*.gradle*', '**/gradle-wrapper.properties', 'buildSrc/**/*.kt', 'patches/**/*.patch') }}
           restore-keys: |
             ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-
-      
+
       - name: Gradle Cache Cleanup
         run: |
           mkdir -p ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2
           [ -f ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/modules-2.lock ] && rm -f ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/modules-2.lock
           [ -f ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/gc.properties ] && rm -f ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/gc.properties
           find ~/.gradle/caches -name "*.lock" -type f -delete || echo "No lock files found to delete"
-      
+
       - name: Set up GraalVM JDK 21
         uses: graalvm/setup-graalvm@main
         with:
           java-version: 21
           github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
-          set-java-home: true
-      
+
       - name: Grant execute permission for gradlew
         run: chmod +x gradlew
-      
+
       - name: Configure Git
         run: |
           git config --global user.email "no-reply@github.com"
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
           git config --global core.preloadindex true
           git config --global core.fscache true
           git config --global gc.auto 256
-    
+
       - name: Configure Gradle Properties
         run: |
           mkdir -p ~/.gradle
@@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "kotlin.incremental=true" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
           # Add patch parallelism configuration 
           echo "leafPatches.parallelism=${{ env.PATCH_PARALLELISM }}" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
-      
+
       - name: Apply patches
         run: |
           # Analyze available system resources for optimal settings
@@ -85,23 +83,19 @@ jobs:
                    applyAllPatches \
                    --stacktrace --no-daemon --parallel \
                    --max-workers=8
-      
+
       - name: Create MojmapPaperclipJar
         run: ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="${{ env.GRAALVM_ARGS }} ${{ env.GRADLE_MEMORY }}" createMojmapPaperclipJar --stacktrace --no-daemon --parallel --max-workers=8
-      
+
       - name: Create ReobfPaperclipJar
         run: ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="${{ env.GRAALVM_ARGS }} ${{ env.GRADLE_MEMORY }}" -Dpaperweight.debug=true createReobfPaperclipJar --stacktrace --no-daemon --parallel --max-workers=8
-      
+
       # Start API publishing in background
       - name: Start API Publishing
         id: publish-api
         run: |
           echo "Starting API publishing in background..."
           (
-            echo "REPO_USER=${{ secrets.REPO_USER }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-            export REPO_USER=${{ secrets.REPO_USER }}
-            echo "REPO_PASSWORD=${{ secrets.REPO_PASSWORD }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-            export REPO_PASSWORD=${{ secrets.REPO_PASSWORD }}
             ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="${{ env.GRAALVM_ARGS }} ${{ env.GRADLE_MEMORY }}" publish --parallel --max-workers=4 > publish_api_log.txt 2>&1
             # Uncomment when ready to implement:
             # ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="${{ env.GRAALVM_ARGS }} ${{ env.GRADLE_MEMORY }}" publishDevBundlePublicationToLeafRepository -PpublishDevBundle=true --parallel >> publish_api_log.txt 2>&1
@@ -111,7 +105,10 @@ jobs:
           # Store the background process ID
           echo "PUBLISH_PID=$!" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "API publishing started in background with PID $!"
-      
+        env:
+          REPO_USER: ${{ secrets.REPO_USER }}
+          REPO_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.REPO_PASSWORD }}
+
       - name: Gradle Cache Prune
         run: |
           if [ -d ~/.gradle/caches ]; then
@@ -124,21 +121,27 @@ jobs:
           else
             echo "Gradle cache directory does not exist yet"
           fi
-      
+
       - name: Rename Paperclip JARs
         run: |
           mv leaf-server/build/libs/leaf-paperclip-1.21.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT-mojmap.jar ./leaf-1.21.4-${{ env.BUILD_NUMBER }}-mojmap.jar
           mv leaf-server/build/libs/leaf-paperclip-1.21.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT-reobf.jar ./leaf-1.21.4-${{ env.BUILD_NUMBER }}-reobf.jar
-      
+
       - name: Upload Leaf as build artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
         with:
           name: Leaf 1.21.4
           path: ./leaf-1.21.4-*.jar
-      
-      - name: Prepare jar for release
-        run: mv ./leaf-1.21.4-${{ env.BUILD_NUMBER }}-mojmap.jar ./leaf-1.21.4-${{ env.BUILD_NUMBER }}.jar
-      
+
+      - name: Prepare for release
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: |
+          chmod +x ./scripts/prepareRelease.sh
+          ./scripts/prepareRelease.sh
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GITHUB_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+
       # Wait for API publishing to complete before releasing
       - name: Wait for API Publishing
         run: |
@@ -160,14 +163,14 @@ jobs:
           else
             echo "API publishing completed successfully."
           fi
-      
+
       - name: Release Leaf
-        # TODO: Replace with a maintained action as marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases is archived
-        # Recommended alternatives: softprops/action-gh-release or ncipollo/release-action
-        uses: marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases@master
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@master
         with:
-          title: "Leaf 1.21.4"
-          automatic_release_tag: "ver-1.21.4"
-          repo_token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          name: "Leaf 1.21.4"
+          tag_name: "ver-1.21.4"
           files: "./leaf-1.21.4-${{ env.BUILD_NUMBER }}.jar"
+          body_path: "./release_notes.md"
+          token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          target_commitish: "${{ github.sha }}"
           prerelease: false
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index af0509be..d6aba3ea 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ subprojects {
             maven(leafMavenPublicUrl) {
                 name = "leaf"
 
-                credentials.username = "dreeam"
-                credentials.password = "dreeam123"
+                credentials.username = System.getenv("REPO_USER")
+                credentials.password = System.getenv("REPO_PASSWORD")
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/scripts/prepareRelease.sh b/scripts/prepareRelease.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2ed956b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/prepareRelease.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+IS_EOL=false
+IS_UNSUPPORTED=false
+
+RELEASE_NOTES="release_notes.md"
+
+# Rename Leaf jar
+mv ./leaf-1.21.4-"${BUILD_NUMBER}"-mojmap.jar ./leaf-1.21.4-"${BUILD_NUMBER}".jar
+
+# Branch name
+CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+echo "✨Current branch: $CURRENT_BRANCH"
+
+# Latest tag name
+LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
+if [ -z "$LATEST_TAG" ]; then
+  echo "⚠️No previous release found. Using initial commit."
+  LATEST_TAG=$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD)
+fi
+echo "✨Latest tag: $LATEST_TAG"
+
+# Commit of the latest tag
+LAST_RELEASE_COMMIT=$(git rev-list -n 1 "$LATEST_TAG")
+echo "✨Last release commit: $LAST_RELEASE_COMMIT"
+
+# Commits log
+COMMIT_LOG=$(git log "$LAST_RELEASE_COMMIT"..HEAD --pretty=format:"- [\`%h\`](https://github.com/"${GITHUB_REPO}"/commit/%H) %s (%an)")
+if [ -z "$COMMIT_LOG" ]; then
+  COMMIT_LOG="⚠️No new commits since $LATEST_TAG."
+fi
+echo "✅Commits log generated"
+
+# Release notes header
+echo "" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+
+# Commits log
+echo "### 📜 Commits:" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+echo "***" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+echo "" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+echo "$COMMIT_LOG" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+echo "" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+echo "### 🔒 Checksums" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+
+# Get checksums
+ARTIFACTS_DIR="."
+if [ -d "$ARTIFACTS_DIR" ]; then
+  for file in "$ARTIFACTS_DIR"/*.jar; do
+    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
+      MD5=$(md5sum "$file" | awk '{ print $1 }')
+      SHA256=$(sha256sum "$file" | awk '{ print $1 }')
+      FILENAME=$(basename "$file")
+
+      echo "|           | $FILENAME |" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+      echo "| --------- | --------- |" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+      echo "| MD5       | $MD5      |" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+      echo "| SHA256    | $SHA256   |" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+    fi
+  done
+else
+  echo "⚠️No artifacts found." >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+fi
+echo "🔒Checksums calculated"
+
+# EOL warning
+if [ "$IS_EOL" = true ]; then
+  echo "" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> [!WARNING]" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> This version of Leaf is end-of-life and will only receive critical bugfixes from upstream." >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> Update to latest version and gain better performance!" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+fi
+
+# Unsupported warning
+if [ "$IS_UNSUPPORTED" = true ]; then
+  echo "" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> [!CAUTION]" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> This version of Leaf is unsupported and will not receive any bugfixes." >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+  echo "> Use at your own risk!" >> $RELEASE_NOTES
+fi
+
+# Delete last tag
+gh release delete ver-1.21.4 --cleanup-tag -y -R "${GITHUB_REPO}"
+echo "🚀Ready for release"