diff --git a/publish/action.yml b/publish/action.yml
index 134eaea..f92343c 100644
--- a/publish/action.yml
+++ b/publish/action.yml
@@ -104,12 +104,6 @@ runs:
           exit 1
         fi
 
-        # Resolve the exact commit SHA the tag points to. Using git rev-list
-        # rather than github.sha avoids the common mismatch where the workflow
-        # was triggered from a pre-release commit but the tag was created on
-        # the subsequent release commit by the prepare job.
-        tag_sha="$(git rev-list -n 1 "${TAG_NAME}")"
-
         release_notes="$(cat "$RELEASE_NOTES_FILE")"
         escaped_release_notes="$(printf '%s' "$release_notes" | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g; s/"/\\"/g; :a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\\n/g')"
         release_api="${GITHUB_API_URL:-${GITHUB_SERVER_URL%/}/api/v1}/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/releases"
@@ -133,7 +127,7 @@ runs:
             -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
             -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
             "${release_api}/${existing_release_id}" \
-            --data "{\"tag_name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"target\":\"${tag_sha}\",\"name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"body\":\"${escaped_release_notes}\",\"draft\":false,\"prerelease\":false}" \
+            --data "{\"tag_name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"body\":\"${escaped_release_notes}\",\"draft\":false,\"prerelease\":false}" \
             --output release.json
 
           echo "id=$existing_release_id" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
@@ -147,7 +141,7 @@ runs:
             -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" \
             -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
             "${release_api}" \
-            --data "{\"tag_name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"target\":\"${tag_sha}\",\"name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"body\":\"${escaped_release_notes}\",\"draft\":false,\"prerelease\":false}" \
+            --data "{\"tag_name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"name\":\"${TAG_NAME}\",\"body\":\"${escaped_release_notes}\",\"draft\":false,\"prerelease\":false}" \
             --output release.json
 
           release_id="$(sed -n 's/.*"id"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/p' release.json | head -n 1)"