diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index 500a311..416f13c 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -38,19 +38,28 @@ jobs:
     # The anouma-runner runs as a Docker container itself (gitea/runner:3),
     # with the host's docker.sock bind-mounted in but no `docker` CLI binary
     # of its own — a job with no `container:` here runs directly inside that
-    # minimal runner image and gets "docker: command not found". Using the
-    # official Docker CLI image instead gives this job the `docker` binary,
-    # and the runner auto-mounts the same host docker.sock into it (sibling
-    # containers — see container.docker_host in the runner's config.yaml),
-    # so `docker build`/`push` operate on the host's real Docker daemon.
+    # minimal runner image and gets "docker: command not found".
+    #
+    # A plain `docker:27-cli` image (Alpine, no Node.js) doesn't work either:
+    # actions/checkout@v4 is a JS action and needs a Node runtime in the job
+    # container, which that image doesn't have — it failed at Checkout with
+    # exit 127. Using a Node image as the base guarantees Node is already
+    # there (same reason the `test` job's node:22-alpine works), and the
+    # Docker CLI + ssh client are added via apt. The runner auto-mounts the
+    # same host docker.sock into this container (sibling containers — see
+    # container.docker_host in the runner's config.yaml), so `docker
+    # build`/`push` operate on the host's real Docker daemon.
     container:
-      image: docker:27-cli
+      image: node:22-bookworm-slim
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install ssh client
-        run: apk add --no-cache openssh-client
+      - name: Install Docker CLI and ssh client
+        run: |
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker.io openssh-client
+          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
       - name: Determine image tags
         id: image