diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
similarity index 71%
rename from .github/workflows/release.yml
rename to .github/workflows/release.yaml
index ee44aa54..9e6883fd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           ref: main
 
-      - name: Validate CHANGELOG entry
-        run: |
-          if ! grep -q "## v${{ inputs.version }}" CHANGELOG.md; then
-            echo "::error::Missing CHANGELOG entry for v${{ inputs.version }}"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
       - name: Validate version.txt
         run: |
           if ! grep -q "${{ inputs.version }}" cmd/scip/version.txt; then
@@ -36,22 +29,34 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           TAG="v${{ inputs.version }}"
           BINDINGS_TAG="bindings/go/scip/$TAG"
-          git tag "$TAG" 2>/dev/null || echo "Tag $TAG already exists"
-          git tag "$BINDINGS_TAG" 2>/dev/null || echo "Tag $BINDINGS_TAG already exists"
+          for t in "$TAG" "$BINDINGS_TAG"; do
+            if git rev-parse "$t" &>/dev/null; then
+              if [ "$(git rev-parse "$t"^{})" != "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" ]; then
+                echo "::error::Tag $t exists but points to a different commit"
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              echo "Tag $t already exists at HEAD, skipping"
+            else
+              git tag "$t"
+            fi
+          done
           git push origin "$TAG" "$BINDINGS_TAG" 2>/dev/null || echo "Tags already pushed"
 
-      - name: Create GitHub release
+      - name: Create draft GitHub release
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           TAG="v${{ inputs.version }}"
           if gh release view "$TAG" &>/dev/null; then
-            echo "Release $TAG already exists, skipping creation"
+            DRAFT=$(gh release view "$TAG" --json isDraft -q '.isDraft')
+            if [ "$DRAFT" = "false" ]; then
+              echo "::error::Release $TAG is already published"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            echo "Draft release $TAG already exists, skipping creation"
             exit 0
           fi
           {
-            echo "See the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/scip-code/scip/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) to see what's new in scip $TAG."
-            echo ''
             echo 'Download the CLI for your current platform using:'
             echo ''
             echo '```bash'
@@ -62,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
             echo '  bash -c '"'"'curl -L "https://github.com/scip-code/scip/releases/download/$TAG/scip-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz"'"'"' \'
             echo '| tar xzf - scip'
             echo '```'
-          } | gh release create "$TAG" --title "scip $TAG" --notes-file -
+          } | gh release create "$TAG" --title "scip $TAG" --generate-notes --draft --notes-file -
 
   release-crate:
     needs: publish
@@ -135,4 +140,23 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           ASSET: ${{ matrix.asset_name }}
-        run: gh release upload "v${{ inputs.version }}" "$ASSET.tar.gz" "$ASSET.tar.gz.sha256" --clobber
+        run: |
+          TAG="v${{ inputs.version }}"
+          DRAFT=$(gh release view "$TAG" --json isDraft -q '.isDraft')
+          if [ "$DRAFT" = "false" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Release $TAG is already published, refusing to upload"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          gh release upload "$TAG" "$ASSET.tar.gz" "$ASSET.tar.gz.sha256" --clobber
+
+  finalize-release:
+    needs: [release-crate, build-go-binaries]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Mark release as non-draft
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: gh release edit "v${{ inputs.version }}" --draft=false
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 88755b6f..00000000
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,253 +0,0 @@
-# ChangeLog
-
-## v0.7.1
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- Render external symbols in snapshot outputs.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/390)
-- Render `display_name` and `signature_documentation` in snapshots.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/391)
-
-## v0.7.0
-
-General:
-
-- BREAKING CHANGE: The project has moved from `sourcegraph/scip` to `scip-code/scip`.
-  All import paths and references have been updated accordingly.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/377)
-- All bindings (Go, Rust, TypeScript, Haskell) now follow the same
-  version number as the repository.
-- Adopted Nix for building and CI.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/356)
-- Removed all LSIF references now that LSIF is fully deprecated.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/369)
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- BREAKING CHANGE: Go bindings have been split into a separate module
-  at `github.com/scip-code/scip/bindings/go/scip` to reduce
-  the dependency footprint for consumers.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/364,
-  https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/371)
-- Removed old V1 symbol parser, speedtest, and sample indexes.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/365)
-- Updated protoc-gen-go from v1.31.0 to v1.36.6.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/358)
-
-Rust bindings:
-
-- Fixed symbol formatting to use character count instead of byte length,
-  fixing issues with multibyte identifiers.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/346)
-- Fixed symbol backtick escaping to match the Go implementation.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/368)
-
-TypeScript bindings:
-
-- BREAKING CHANGE: Migrated protobuf bindings from protoc-gen-ts to protobuf-es.
-  (https://github.com/scip-code/scip/pull/361)
-
-## v0.6.1
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- Added support for enclosing ranges
-- Added syntax kinds to testutil output
-
-## v0.6.0
-
-Rust SCIP bindings:
-
-- Bumped MSRV to Rust 1.81.0 (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/316, https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/313).
-- Bumped the pinned version of the `protobuf` crate to
-  the latest release v3.7.2.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/313)
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- Symbol parsing logic doesn't panic on multibyte code points.
-- BREAKING CHANGE: IndexVisitor now accepts a context object and returns an error.
-  When an error is returned, the visitor short-circuits.
-
-CLI:
-
-- The `test` command now has a `--check-documents` flag.
-
-## v0.5.2
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Added kind `SymbolInformation.Kind.Concept` for C++ (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/305)
-
-## v0.5.1
-
-CLI:
-
-- Cleaned up the formatting for the `test` command.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/281)
-
-Rust SCIP bindings:
-
-- Bumped the pinned version of the `protobuf` crate to
-  the latest release v3.7.1.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/287)
-
-## v0.5.0
-
-CLI:
-
-- Added a `test` command for targeted testing of specific occurrences.
-  See the [CLI](docs/CLI.md) and [test file syntax reference](docs/test_file_format.md) for details.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/236)
-- Breaking changes:
-  - Removed the `convert` subcommand for SCIP to LSIF conversion.
-    (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/275)
-
-Schema:
-
-- Added two new `SymbolKind` variants: `Extension` and `Mixin`.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/277)
-
-Go SCIP bindings:
-
-- Added clearer documentation around document canonicalization.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/273)
-- Breaking changes:
-  - Removed SCIP to LSIF conversion functionality.
-    (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/275)
-
-## v0.4.0
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Added documentation that ranges must be half-open intervals.
-
-Go SCIP bindings:
-
-- Breaking changes:
-  - The `NewRange` function does well-formedness checks and returns `(Range, error)` instead of `*Range`.
-    When skipping checks, `NewRangeUnchecked` can be used instead.
-  - The `SortRanges` function takes a `[]Range` instead of a `[]*Range`
-    to avoid extra heap allocations.
-- Features:
-  - Added new methods for `Range` and `Position` types.
-
-## v0.3.3
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Added new `PositionEncoding` field to specify how consumers
-  should interpret the character offsets.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/224, https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/225)
-
-scip CLI:
-
-- `scip snapshot` output includes the `diagnostics` field.
-
-## v0.3.2
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Added new `SymbolRole`: `ForwardDefinition`
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/217)
-
-scip CLI:
-
-- `scip print` supports turning off colorful output using `--color=false` or
-  by setting the environment variable `NO_COLOR=1`.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/214)
-
-## v0.3.1
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Added new `Kind` enum constants to represent more detailed
-  information about different pieces of syntax in different languages.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/195,
-  https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/208,
-  https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/209)
-- Added new `Language` enum constants.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/195,
-  https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/207)
-- Minor documentation improvements.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/194,
-  https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/206)
-
-scip CLI:
-
-- Added a new `--project-root` flag to `scip stats`.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/187)
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- Added missing validation for local symbols when
-  parsing a symbol string.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/206)
-- Fixed a bug related to escaping in symbol formatting.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/186)
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/206)
-- Fixed a bug in occurrence canonicalization.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/180)
-- Fixed some bugs in the new streaming parsing APIs.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/176,
-  https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/177)
-
-Rust bindings:
-
-- Added missing validation for local symbols when
-  parsing a symbol string.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/206)
-
-## v0.3.0
-
-SCIP schema:
-
-- Several new fields were added:
-  [`SymbolInformation.signature_documentation`](https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/159),
-  [`SymbolInformation.display_name`](https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/158),
-  [`SymbolInformation.kind`](https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/156)
-  [`Occurrence.enclosing_range`](https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/150)
-
-scip CLI:
-
-- The `print` subcommand supports a new `--json` flag to emit JSON output
-  instead of colored textual output. (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/147)
-- The `snapshot` subcommand supports a new `--comment-syntax` flag
-  to customize the prefix used for inline comments in snapshot output.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/139)
-- `snapshot` output now include override_documentation for occurrences.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/116)
-
-Go bindings:
-
-- Added new APIs to parse SCIP indexes in a streaming
-  fashion at Document granularity. This allows consumers
-  to process SCIP indexes with better control over memory usage.
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/172)
-- Fixed a panic when descriptors are incomplete
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/171)
-
-Rust bindings:
-
-- Fixes a bug when emitting symbols which require escaping
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/169)
-- Fixes a bug in handling for macro symbols
-  (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/145)
-
-## v0.2.3
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Fixed a bug in SCIP to LSIF conversion of indexes using the new `Relationship.is_definition` field. Without this fix, the generated LSIF index would fail to process in Sourcegraph with a "unknown reference to $ID (expected a range)" error. (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/108)
-
-## v0.2.2
-
-### Additions
-
-- The new `scip print` subcommand can be used to view a SCIP index without access to protoc. (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/91)
-- The new `scip lint` subcommand can be used to identify correctness and redundancy issues with a SCIP index. (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/92)
-
-### Fixes
-
-- `scip --version` now works as expected instead of reporting 0.1.0. (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/pull/97)
diff --git a/docs/Development.md b/docs/Development.md
index ceb469d9..042e9b3d 100644
--- a/docs/Development.md
+++ b/docs/Development.md
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ go test ./cmd/scip -update-snapshots
 
 ## Release a new version
 
-First, add release notes to the [CHANGELOG](../CHANGELOG.md). Next, update the
-version in `cmd/scip/version.txt`, `bindings/rust/Cargo.toml`,
-`bindings/rust/Cargo.lock`, and `docs/CLI.md`
+Update the version in `cmd/scip/version.txt`, `bindings/rust/Cargo.toml`,
+`bindings/rust/Cargo.lock`, and `docs/CLI.md`, then land a commit with those
+changes.
 
-After landing a commit with those two changes, trigger the
+After the commit is on `main`, trigger the
 [release workflow](/.github/workflows/release.yml) from the
 Actions tab on GitHub, providing the version number (e.g. `0.7.0`).
-The workflow will validate the CHANGELOG and version.txt, create and push
-tags, create the GitHub release, publish the Rust crate, and build and
-upload CLI binaries.
+The workflow will validate version.txt, create and push tags, create a draft
+GitHub release (with auto-generated notes), publish the Rust crate, build and
+upload CLI binaries, and finally mark the release as non-draft.