diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 718eb69..751dd73 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ consumer's release, when it is stale.)
 
 **The merge is the ship decision; the tag is transcription.** After the
 merge, [release.yml](.github/workflows/release.yml#L136-L301) asserts its
-way to certainty, tags the merge commit, publishes the GitHub release with
+way to certainty, tags the merge commit, publishes the forge release with
 the version's own changelog section as the body — the curated prose, never
 the generated PR list ([lib/changelog.sh](lib/changelog.sh) is the one
 canonical extractor, and [bin/changelog-section](bin/changelog-section) is
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ steps run past the tag, and what a failure at each leaves behind is what
 sorts them. Two fail before the release exists: the consumer's
 [artifact hook](docs/CONSUMERS.md#the-artifact-hook) sits between the tag and
 the publish, so its non-zero exit aborts, and the publish itself
-([`gh release create --verify-tag`](.github/workflows/release.yml#L246-L258))
+([`forge_release_create`](.github/workflows/release.yml#L255-L268))
 can fail on the API call or the assets. Either leaves the same state — a tag
 standing and no release — which the
 [nothing-exists assert](#the-merge-door-refused-releaseyml) names and the tag
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ the thing twice. If the tag exists but the release does not (a manual tag
 won the race, or
 [a failed artifact hook](docs/CONSUMERS.md#the-artifact-hook), or the publish
 step itself failing after the tag), recover by the tag door: delete and
-re-push the tag, or `gh release create` by hand from a fixed tree.
+re-push the tag, or run `forge_release_create` by hand from a fixed tree.
 
 > direct push refused (branch protection?) — opening the bump PR instead
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/271.md b/changelog.d/271.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72393d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/271.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+### Fixed
+
+- Forgejo release publishing now stages drafts until assets upload, rolls back failures, and recovers stranded same-tag drafts before retrying (#271).