diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/releases.yml b/.gitea/workflows/releases.yml
index a269179..32369e3 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/releases.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/releases.yml
@@ -13,15 +13,20 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
-      # Checkout
+      # Checkout (Native Git - No Node.js required)
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Configure Git Safe Directory
         shell: bash
+        env:
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" || true
+          git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
+          SERVER_HOST=$(echo "${{ github.server_url }}" | sed -e 's|^https://||' -e 's|^http://||')
+          git init
+          git remote add origin "https://${GITEA_TOKEN}@${SERVER_HOST}/${{ github.repository }}.git" || \
+          git remote set-url origin "https://${GITEA_TOKEN}@${SERVER_HOST}/${{ github.repository }}.git"
+          git fetch --depth 1 origin "${{ github.sha }}" || git fetch --depth 1 origin main
+          git checkout -f FETCH_HEAD
 
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       # Build firmware & merged binary
@@ -35,9 +40,6 @@ jobs:
           idf.py build
           idf.py merge-bin
 
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------
-      # Prepare release artifacts
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       # Prepare release artifacts & calculate hashes
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           ls -lh release/
 
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
-      # Delete existing "latest" release
+      # Delete existing "latest" release & tag
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       - name: Delete existing latest release
         shell: bash
@@ -106,37 +108,61 @@ jobs:
             || true
 
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
-      # Create latest release
+      # Create latest release and upload assets (Native API & Curl)
       # ------------------------------------------------------------
       - name: Create latest release
-        uses: akkuman/gitea-release-action@v1
-        with:
-          server_url: ${{ github.server_url }}
-          repository: ${{ github.repository }}
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          API="${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}"
 
-          tag_name: latest
-          name: "Latest ESP32 Firmware"
+          export RELEASE_BODY="Automatically built from the \`main\` branch.
 
-          body: |
-            Automatically built from the `main` branch.
+          Commit:
+          ${{ github.sha }}
 
-            Commit:
-            ${{ github.sha }}
+          SHA256:
+          ${{ env.IMG_SHA256 }}
 
-            SHA256:
-            ${{ env.IMG_SHA256 }}
+          File-SHA256:
+          ${{ env.BIN_SHA256 }}
 
-            File-SHA256:
-            ${{ env.BIN_SHA256 }}
+          ESP-IDF:
+          5.5
 
-            ESP-IDF:
-            5.5
+          Target:
+          ESP32
 
-            Target:
-            ESP32
+          This release is automatically replaced on every push to \`main\`."
 
-            This release is automatically replaced on every push to `main`.
+          REL_ID=$(python3 -c "import urllib.request, json, os
+          api = '${API}'
+          token = os.environ['GITEA_TOKEN']
+          headers = {'Authorization': f'token {token}', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
+          payload = {
+              'tag_name': 'latest',
+              'target_commitish': 'main',
+              'name': 'Latest ESP32 Firmware',
+              'body': os.environ.get('RELEASE_BODY', ''),
+              'draft': False,
+              'prerelease': False
+          }
+          req = urllib.request.Request(f'{api}/releases', data=json.dumps(payload).encode('utf-8'), headers=headers, method='POST')
+          with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
+              print(json.loads(resp.read().decode('utf-8'))['id'])
+          ")
 
-          files: |
-            release/*
+          echo "Created release ID: ${REL_ID}"
+
+          for fpath in release/*; do
+            [ -f "$fpath" ] || continue
+            echo "Uploading $fpath..."
+            curl -fsSL \
+              -X POST \
+              -H "Authorization: token ${GITEA_TOKEN}" \
+              -F "attachment=@${fpath}" \
+              "${API}/releases/${REL_ID}/assets"
+          done
+
+          echo "Release created and all assets uploaded successfully!"