fix: auto-publish release instead of leaving as draft

The release pipeline now publishes the release automatically after
uploading all assets. This ensures downstream workflows (Docker publish,
Helm chart, demo server update) see the correct "latest" release and
don't skip due to the race condition where the draft wasn't published yet.

.github/workflows/create-release.yml

@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ jobs:
 
           # Tag must exist first - draft releases can't create tags (GitHub API limitation)
           # See: https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/11589
+          # Create as draft first so we can upload assets before publishing
           RELEASE_JSON=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases" \
             -X POST \
             -F tag_name="${TAG}" \
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "release_url=${RELEASE_URL}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "release_id=${RELEASE_ID}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
-          echo "✓ Release created: ${TAG} (ID: ${RELEASE_ID})"
+          echo "✓ Draft release created: ${TAG} (ID: ${RELEASE_ID})"
       - name: Upload checksums.txt
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -427,21 +428,31 @@ jobs:
           gh release upload "${TAG}" release/install-docker.sh
           gh release upload "${TAG}" release/pulse-auto-update.sh
 
+      - name: Publish release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          TAG="${{ needs.extract_version.outputs.tag }}"
+          RELEASE_ID="${{ steps.create_release.outputs.release_id }}"
+
+          echo "Publishing release ${TAG}..."
+
+          gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}" \
+            -X PATCH \
+            -F draft=false
+
+          echo "✓ Release published: ${TAG}"
+
       - name: Output release information
         run: |
-          echo "✅ Release draft created successfully!"
+          echo "✅ Release published successfully!"
           echo ""
           echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
           echo "📦 Release: ${{ needs.extract_version.outputs.tag }}"
           echo "🔗 URL: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.release_url }}"
           echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
           echo ""
-          echo "⚠️  IMPORTANT: This release is in DRAFT status"
-          echo ""
-          echo "Next steps:"
-          echo "1. Review the release notes at the URL above"
-          echo "2. Publish the release when ready"
-          echo "3. Docker images will be built automatically after publish"
+          echo "Docker images, Helm chart, and demo server will be updated automatically."
           echo ""
 
   validate_release_assets:
@@ -454,7 +465,7 @@ jobs:
       tag: ${{ needs.extract_version.outputs.tag }}
       version: ${{ needs.extract_version.outputs.version }}
       release_id: ${{ needs.create_release.outputs.release_id }}
-      draft: true
+      draft: false
       target_commitish: ${{ needs.create_release.outputs.target_commitish }}