diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0712e52a50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+on:
+  # Run the publish workflow after a successful release
+  # Will be triggered from the release.yaml workflow
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      tag_name:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+    secrets:
+      publish_token:
+        required: true
+  # In case of problems, let release engineers retry by manually dispatching
+  # the workflow from the GitHub UI
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag_name:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    uses: bazel-contrib/publish-to-bcr/.github/workflows/publish.yaml@v0.0.4
+    with:
+      tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag_name }}
+      # GitHub repository which is a fork of the upstream where the Pull Request will be opened.
+      registry_fork: bazel-contrib/bazel-central-registry
+    permissions:
+      attestations: write
+      contents: write
+      id-token: write
+    secrets:
+      # Necessary to push to the BCR fork, and to open a pull request against a registry
+      publish_token: ${{ secrets.BCR_PUBLISH_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 7f1c2ed0ce..7741979ac2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,19 @@ permissions:
   contents: write
 jobs:
   release:
-    uses: bazel-contrib/.github/.github/workflows/release_ruleset.yaml@0b644c3ee5c7cd9a7657f7e782b26a599d9b6d5c # 2025-01-23
+    uses: bazel-contrib/.github/.github/workflows/release_ruleset.yaml@v7.2.0
     with:
       prerelease: false
       release_files: rules_nodejs-*.tar.gz
-      tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag_name }}
+      tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag_name || github.ref_name }}
+  publish:
+    needs: release
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/publish.yaml
+    with:
+      tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag_name || github.ref_name }}
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      attestations: write
+      contents: write
+    secrets:
+      publish_token: ${{ secrets.BCR_PUBLISH_TOKEN }}