diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 623c5ae..565f01c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
         # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
         # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
         shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.25.1/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.27.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
       - name: Cache dist
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ jobs:
       # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    container: ${{ matrix.container && matrix.container.image || null }}
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
@@ -116,8 +117,15 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
+        if: ${{ matrix.container }}
+        run: |
+          if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+            echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          fi
       - name: Install dist
-        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist.run }}
       # Get the dist-manifest
       - name: Fetch local artifacts
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
@@ -142,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
           echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          dist print-upload-files-from-manifest --manifest dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
           cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
diff --git a/dist-workspace.toml b/dist-workspace.toml
index 1877725..e4793d6 100644
--- a/dist-workspace.toml
+++ b/dist-workspace.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ members = ["cargo:."]
 # Config for 'dist'
 [dist]
 # The preferred dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
-cargo-dist-version = "0.25.1"
+cargo-dist-version = "0.27.0"
 # CI backends to support
 ci = "github"
 # The installers to generate for each app
@@ -16,13 +16,7 @@ windows-archive = ".zip"
 # The archive format to use for non-windows builds (defaults .tar.xz)
 unix-archive = ".tar.gz"
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
-targets = [
-    "aarch64-apple-darwin",
-    "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu",
-    "x86_64-apple-darwin",
-    "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
-    "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc",
-]
+targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
 # Build only the required packages, and individually
 precise-builds = true
 # Features to pass to cargo build