From d32dfc73144918452fb880ff640e6fb739934761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Villalpando Mello <eduardovil@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 18:15:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Enable merged-PR release branch preparation

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 956d3afd-ae0b-486c-a60c-3a6276c23213
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 .github/workflows/release-pr-release.yml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-pr-release.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-pr-release.yml b/.github/workflows/release-pr-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4724208d7d5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-pr-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Release PR Release
+
+on:
+  pull_request_target:
+    branches: [main]
+    types: [closed]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Release PR / Release
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Prepare release branch
+        id: release
+        uses: microsoft/vscode-python-ci/actions/release-pr@4e0c4335bbf6b1a274673e22d9c39cd7efb93ccf
+        with:
+          mode: release
+      - name: Summarize release branch
+        env:
+          VERSION: ${{ steps.release.outputs.version }}
+          BRANCH: ${{ steps.release.outputs.branch }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          if [[ -n "$VERSION" ]]; then
+            echo "Created release branch: $BRANCH (stable version $VERSION)." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          else
+            echo "Not a release candidate; no branch created." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          fi