diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 9003d96..4d82c10 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2023, axodotdev
+# Copyright 2022-2024, axodotdev
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
 #
 # CI that:
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 # * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
 # * builds artifacts with cargo-dist (archives, installers, hashes)
 # * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
-# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a Github Release
+# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a GitHub Release
 #
-# Note that the Github Release will be created with a generated
+# Note that the GitHub Release will be created with a generated
 # title/body based on your changelogs.
 
 name: Release
@@ -31,22 +31,22 @@ permissions:
 # packages versioned/released in lockstep).
 #
 # If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
-# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However Github
+# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However, GitHub
 # will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
 # mistake.
 #
 # If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the release(s)
 # will be marked as a prerelease.
 on:
+  pull_request:
   push:
     tags:
       - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
-  pull_request:
 
 jobs:
   # Run 'cargo dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
   plan:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     outputs:
       val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
       tag: ${{ !github.event.pull_request && github.ref_name || '' }}
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ 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/v0.7.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.15.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       # sure would be cool if github gave us proper conditionals...
       # so here's a doubly-nested ternary-via-truthiness to try to provide the best possible
       # functionality based on whether this is a pull_request, and whether it's from a fork.
@@ -70,15 +70,15 @@ jobs:
       # but also really annoying to build CI around when it needs secrets to work right.)
       - id: plan
         run: |
-          cargo dist ${{ !github.event.pull_request && format('host --steps=create --tag={0}', github.ref_name) || (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork && 'plan' || 'host --steps=check') }} --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
+          cargo dist ${{ (!github.event.pull_request && format('host --steps=create --tag={0}', github.ref_name)) || 'plan' }} --output-format=json > plan-dist-manifest.json
           echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
-          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          cat plan-dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." plan-dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
       - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
-          path: dist-manifest.json
+          name: artifacts-plan-dist-manifest
+          path: plan-dist-manifest.json
 
   # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
   build-local-artifacts:
@@ -105,18 +105,24 @@ jobs:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
     steps:
+      - name: enable windows longpaths
+        run: |
+          git config --global core.longpaths true
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+        with:
+          key: ${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}
       - name: Install cargo-dist
         run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
       # Get the dist-manifest
       - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          pattern: artifacts-*
           path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
@@ -134,14 +140,14 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
           echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
           cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
       - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          name: artifacts-build-local-${{ join(matrix.targets, '_') }}
           path: |
             ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
             ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
@@ -151,7 +157,7 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - plan
       - build-local-artifacts
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/global-dist-manifest.json
@@ -160,13 +166,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.7.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        shell: bash
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.15.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       # Get all the local artifacts for the global tasks to use (for e.g. checksums)
       - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          pattern: artifacts-*
           path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
       - id: cargo-dist
         shell: bash
         run: |
@@ -175,14 +183,14 @@ jobs:
 
           # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
           echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".artifacts[]?.path | select( . != null )" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
           cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
       - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          name: artifacts-build-global
           path: |
             ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
             ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
@@ -196,7 +204,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' && (needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     outputs:
       val: ${{ steps.host.outputs.manifest }}
     steps:
@@ -204,14 +212,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.7.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.15.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       # Fetch artifacts from scratch-storage
       - name: Fetch artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          pattern: artifacts-*
           path: target/distrib/
-      # This is a harmless no-op for Github Releases, hosting for that happens in "announce"
+          merge-multiple: true
+      # This is a harmless no-op for GitHub Releases, hosting for that happens in "announce"
       - id: host
         shell: bash
         run: |
@@ -220,12 +229,13 @@ jobs:
           cat dist-manifest.json
           echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
       - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          # Overwrite the previous copy
+          name: artifacts-dist-manifest
           path: dist-manifest.json
 
-  # Create a Github Release while uploading all files to it
+  # Create a GitHub Release while uploading all files to it
   announce:
     needs:
       - plan
@@ -234,23 +244,24 @@ jobs:
     # still allowing individual publish jobs to skip themselves (for prereleases).
     # "host" however must run to completion, no skipping allowed!
     if: ${{ always() && needs.host.result == 'success' }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-20.04"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: "Download Github Artifacts"
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      - name: "Download GitHub Artifacts"
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: artifacts
+          pattern: artifacts-*
           path: artifacts
+          merge-multiple: true
       - name: Cleanup
         run: |
           # Remove the granular manifests
           rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
-      - name: Create Github Release
+      - name: Create GitHub Release
         uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
         with:
           tag: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 73df517..d54bc74 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,17 +56,17 @@ lto = "thin"
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.7.1"
+cargo-dist-version = "0.15.0"
 # CI backends to support
-ci = ["github"]
+ci = "github"
 # The installers to generate for each app
 installers = ["shell", "powershell"]
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
-targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
+targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
 # Publish jobs to run in CI
 pr-run-mode = "plan"
-# TODO: When cargo-dist allows specifying custom runners for the global artifacts job, remove this
-allow-dirty = ["ci"]
+# Whether to install an updater program
+install-updater = false
 
 [workspace.metadata.dist.dependencies.apt]
 pandoc = { stage = ["run"] }
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ rsvg-convert = { stage = ["run"] } # SVG support
 pandoc = { stage = ["run"] }
 librsvg = { stage = ["run"] } # SVG support
 
+[workspace.metadata.dist.github-custom-runners]
+global = "ubuntu-latest"
+
 # Render sample books and upload to release as extra artifacts
 [[workspace.metadata.dist.extra-artifacts]]
 artifacts = [