diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index d1653675..7b707a13 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
         # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
         # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
         shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.24.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.26.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       - name: Cache dist
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ jobs:
       # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    container: ${{ matrix.container && matrix.container.image || null }}
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
@@ -117,12 +118,19 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
+        if: ${{ matrix.container }}
+        run: |
+          if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+            echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          fi
       - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
         with:
           key: ${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}
           cache-provider: ${{ matrix.cache_provider }}
       - name: Install dist
-        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist.run }}
       # Get the dist-manifest
       - name: Fetch local artifacts
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
@@ -147,7 +155,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
           echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          dist print-upload-files-from-manifest --manifest dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
           cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
diff --git a/dist-workspace.toml b/dist-workspace.toml
index a18e1002..1f9eb0fb 100644
--- a/dist-workspace.toml
+++ b/dist-workspace.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ members = ["cargo:."]
 
 [dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.24.1"
+cargo-dist-version = "0.26.1"
 # CI backends to support
 ci = ["github"]
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ installers = []
 # Path that installers should place binaries in
 install-path = ["$PROTO_HOME/bin", "~/.proto/bin"]
 # Publish jobs to run in CI
-pr-run-mode = "plan" # "upload"
+pr-run-mode = "upload"
 # Skip checking whether the specified configuration files are up to date
-allow-dirty = ["ci"]
+# allow-dirty = ["ci"]
 
 [dist.github-custom-runners]
 aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu = "buildjet-4vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm"