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+name: Component Release
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag:
+        description: 'Tag version to release (e.g. 1.2.3)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      tag:
+        description: 'Tag version to release (e.g. 1.2.3)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+    secrets:
+      RDKCM_DEPLOY_KEY:
+        description: 'SSH deploy key for git operations'
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_call'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ssh-key: ${{ secrets.RDKCM_DEPLOY_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Set up Git
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name "GitHub Actions"
+          git config --global user.email "187267378+rdkcm-rdke@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+      - name: Install git-flow and auto-changelog
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y git-flow
+          npm install -g auto-changelog
+
+      - name: Configure and start release
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          git fetch --all
+          git checkout main || git checkout -b main origin/main
+          git checkout develop || git checkout -b develop origin/develop
+
+          git config gitflow.branch.master main
+          git config gitflow.branch.develop develop
+          git config gitflow.prefix.feature feature/
+          git config gitflow.prefix.bugfix bugfix/
+          git config gitflow.prefix.release release/
+          git config gitflow.prefix.hotfix hotfix/
+          git config gitflow.prefix.support support/
+          git config gitflow.prefix.versiontag ''
+
+          echo "git config completed"
+          RELEASE_VERSION="${{ inputs.tag }}"
+          echo "Using manually inputted version: $RELEASE_VERSION"
+          echo "RELEASE_VERSION=$RELEASE_VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          # Check if tag already exists
+          if git rev-parse "refs/tags/$RELEASE_VERSION" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "Tag $RELEASE_VERSION already exists. Skipping release."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          git flow release start $RELEASE_VERSION
+          auto-changelog -v $RELEASE_VERSION
+          git add CHANGELOG.md
+          git commit -m "$RELEASE_VERSION release changelog updates"
+          git flow release publish
+
+      - name: Finish release and push (default git-flow messages)
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          git flow release finish -m "$RELEASE_VERSION release" $RELEASE_VERSION
+          git push origin main
+          git push origin --tags
+          git push origin develop
+          
+      - name: Cleanup tag if workflow fails
+        if: failure()
+        run: |
+          git tag -d $RELEASE_VERSION || true
+          git push origin :refs/tags/$RELEASE_VERSION || true