diff --git a/.github/workflows/app-release.yml b/.github/workflows/app-release.yml
index 6f2be22..d782389 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/app-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/app-release.yml
@@ -42,12 +42,16 @@ jobs:
         with:
           targets: ${{ matrix.platform == 'macos-latest' && 'aarch64-apple-darwin,x86_64-apple-darwin' || '' }}
 
+      - name: refresh apt index (ubuntu only)
+        if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04'
+        run: sudo apt-get update
+
       - name: install dependencies (ubuntu only)
         if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04'
         uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@553a35bb8ebd9fcabcb1c9451aa4c98e1b4ca8a9 # latest
         with:
           packages: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libappindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf
-          version: 1.0
+          version: 1.2
 
       - name: install frontend dependencies
         uses: bahmutov/npm-install@v1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-release.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
index efd9860..d1ba2f3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6
 
       - name: Create tag
+        env:
+          HEAD_REF: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
         run: |
-          VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
+          VERSION=$HEAD_REF
           VERSION=${VERSION#chore/release-version-}
           echo "Creating tag for version $VERSION"
           git tag "$VERSION"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-trigger.yml b/.github/workflows/release-trigger.yml
index 916b120..c2f63d3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-trigger.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-trigger.yml
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Update version
         id: update_version
+        env:
+          INPUT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
         run: |
           JSON_FILE="app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json"
-          RAW_TAG=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
+          RAW_TAG=$INPUT_VERSION
           NEW_VERSION="${RAW_TAG#v}"
           echo "Bumping version to $NEW_VERSION"
           jq ".version = \"$NEW_VERSION\"" "$JSON_FILE" > $JSON_FILE.temp && mv $JSON_FILE.temp "$JSON_FILE"