diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 0610a0e..bf9f2ac 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install pybuilder ddadevops deprecation setuptools
+
+    - debug:
+      run: |
+        echo ${{ github.tag }}
+        echo ${{ github.tag == '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]' }}
+        echo ${{ github.tag != '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]' }}
     
     - name: build stable release
       if: ${{ github.tag == '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]' }}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ab88f2..b1e2b46 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ def rotate_credentials_out(project):
 
 ## Release
 1. git commit -am "release"
+1. git tag -am "release" version
 2. git push --follow-tags
 3. increase version no in build.py
 4. git commit -am "version bump"
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 7628442..3f1c38b 100644
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use_plugin("python.distutils")
 default_task = "publish"
 
 name = "ddadevops"
-version = "0.8.8.dev"
+version = "0.8.9.dev"
 summary = "tools to support builds combining gopass, terraform, dda-pallet, aws & hetzner-cloud"
 description = __doc__
 authors = [Author("meissa GmbH", "buero@meissa-gmbh.de")]