diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a14a5f1..ac0da4d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ name: Release
 
 on:
   push:
-    tags:
-      - "v*.*.*"
+    branches:
+      - main
 
 jobs:
   release:
@@ -17,14 +17,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.12"
 
-      - name: Verify tag matches package version
+      - name: Read package version
+        id: version
         run: |
-          TAG_VERSION="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
           PKG_VERSION="$(python3 -c 'import tomllib; print(tomllib.load(open("pyproject.toml", "rb"))["project"]["version"])')"
-          if [ "$TAG_VERSION" != "$PKG_VERSION" ]; then
-            echo "Tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME does not match pyproject.toml version $PKG_VERSION"
-            exit 1
-          fi
+          echo "version=$PKG_VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
       - name: Install build tool
         run: pip install build
@@ -35,5 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Create GitHub release
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
         with:
+          tag_name: v${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+          name: v${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
           files: dist/*
           generate_release_notes: true
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 038cd9f..a6e8f7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ pytest
 
 1. Update `version` in `pyproject.toml` (e.g. `0.2.0`).
 2. Commit and push to `main`.
-3. Tag the commit and push the tag:
-   ```bash
-   git tag v0.2.0
-   git push origin v0.2.0
-   ```
-4. The `Release` GitHub Actions workflow builds the package and publishes a
-   GitHub Release for the tag, with notes auto-generated from merged PRs since
-   the previous release (categorized via `.github/release.yml`).
+3. The `Release` GitHub Actions workflow runs on every push to `main`: it reads
+   the version from `pyproject.toml`, builds the package, and publishes a
+   `v0.2.0` GitHub Release (creating the matching tag automatically), with
+   notes auto-generated from merged PRs since the previous release
+   (categorized via `.github/release.yml`).
+
+   Pushing to `main` without bumping the version re-publishes the release for
+   the current version with the latest build artifacts.
 
 ## Install in JupyterLab
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 12624a9..15ba9dc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 authors = [{ name = "EEA Data Hub" }]
 dependencies = [
-    "pandas>=2.2,<3",
-    "pyarrow>=17,<22",           # parquet writer + the Arrow types the ingest lane expects
+    #"pandas>=2.2,<3",
+    # "pyarrow>=17,<22",         # parquet writer + the Arrow types the ingest lane expects
     "openpyxl>=3.1,<4",          # .xlsx reader — handles sparse cells correctly (see bathing_water/README.md)
     "xlrd>=2.0,<3",              # legacy .xls, some older SDI deliveries
     "lxml>=5.2,<7",              # ISO 19115-3 metadata records
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 736e739..ac6dcba 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-pandas>=2.2,<3
-pyarrow>=17,<22             # parquet writer + the Arrow types the ingest lane expects
+#pandas>=2.2,<3
+#pyarrow>=17                 # parquet writer + the Arrow types the ingest lane expects
 openpyxl>=3.1,<4            # .xlsx reader — handles sparse cells correctly (see bathing_water/README.md)
 xlrd>=2.0,<3                # legacy .xls, some older SDI deliveries
 lxml>=5.2,<7                # ISO 19115-3 metadata records
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ pyproj>=3.6,<4              # only where a reprojection is a deliberate, documen
 
 # --- acquire ---------------------------------------------------------------
 requests>=2.32,<3
-httpx>=0.28,<1              # also the dds_ingest dependency
-beautifulsoup4>=4.12,<5     # SDI "direct download" is an HTML landing page, not a file
-tqdm>=4.66,<5
+#httpx>=0.28,<1              # also the dds_ingest dependency
+#beautifulsoup4>=4.12,<5     # SDI "direct download" is an HTML landing page, not a file
+#tqdm>=4.66,<5
 
 # --- build backend for the mounted dds_ingest source -----------------------
 # Present so the entrypoint can install /opt/dds_ingest offline, with