Fix extraction of release tag in publish workflow

Author: WojciechMazur

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -693,6 +693,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Add SBT proxy repositories
         run: cp -vf .github/workflows/repositories /root/.sbt/ ; true
 
+        # Extract the release tag
+      - name: Extract the release tag
+        run : echo "RELEASE_TAG=${GITHUB_REF#*refs/tags/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Check compiler version
         shell: bash
         run : |
@@ -707,7 +711,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           ./project/scripts/sbt dist/packArchive
           sha256sum dist/target/scala3-* > dist/target/sha256sum.txt
-          echo "RELEASE_TAG=${GITHUB_REF#*refs/tags/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Create GitHub Release
         id: create_gh_release