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+name: Release Create & Build
+on:
+  push:
+    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
+    tags:
+    - 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
+
+env:
+  BUILD_TYPE: Release
+
+jobs:
+  create-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Create Release
+    outputs: 
+      upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }} 
+    steps:
+      - name: Create Release
+        id: create_release
+        uses: actions/create-release@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
+          release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
+          draft: false
+          prerelease: false 
+          body: |
+              Files included in this release:
+              - `BeamMP-Launcher.exe` windows build
+
+  upload-release-files-windows:
+    name: Upload Windows Release Files
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    needs: create-release
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+            submodules: 'true'
+      
+      - name: Restore artifacts, or run vcpkg, build and cache artifacts
+        uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@main
+        id: runvcpkg
+        with:
+            vcpkgArguments: 'discord-rpc zlib rapidjson openssl'
+            vcpkgDirectory: '${{ runner.workspace }}/b/vcpkg'
+            vcpkgGitCommitId: '75522bb1f2e7d863078bcd06322348f053a9e33f'
+            vcpkgTriplet: 'x64-windows-static'
+
+      - name: Create Build Environment
+        run: cmake -E make_directory ${{github.workspace}}/build-windows
+
+      - name: Configure CMake
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: ${{github.workspace}}/build-windows
+        run: cmake $GITHUB_WORKSPACE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$BUILD_TYPE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE='${{ runner.workspace }}/b/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake' -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows-static
+
+      - name: Build
+        working-directory: ${{github.workspace}}/build-windows
+        shell: bash
+        run: cmake --build . --config $BUILD_TYPE
+
+      - name: Upload Release Asset
+        id: upload-release-asset 
+        uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          upload_url: ${{ needs.create-release.outputs.upload_url }} # This pulls from the CREATE RELEASE step above, referencing it's ID to get its outputs object, which include a `upload_url`. See this blog post for more info: https://jasonet.co/posts/new-features-of-github-actions/#passing-data-to-future-steps 
+          asset_path: ${{github.workspace}}/build-windows/Release/BeamMP-Launcher.exe
+          asset_name: BeamMP-Launcher.exe
+          asset_content_type: application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable