diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 7cee1bf..b6b6176 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -1,42 +1,34 @@
 name: Tests
+
 on:
   push:
-    branches:
-      - main
   pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
+  release:
+    types:
+      - published
   schedule:
     # At 12:00 on every day-of-month
     - cron: "0 12 */1 * *"
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 env:
   COMDB2_DBNAME: mattdb
   TIMEOUT: 30
+
 jobs:
-  test:
-    name: Test suite
+  build_bloomberg_comdb2:
+    name: Build bloomberg-comdb2 from source
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        python-version:
-          - '3.12'
-          - '3.11'
-          - '3.10'
-          - '3.9'
-          - '3.8'
     steps:
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: '
-          sudo apt-get install -qy
-            pkg-config
-        ' # libcdb2api-dev is installed from source below
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Checkout comdb2 dependency
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Checkout bloomberg-comdb2 repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: bloomberg/comdb2
-          path: original_comdb2
-      - name: Build comdb2 from source
+          path: bloomberg-comdb2
+      - name: Install build dependencies
         run: '
           sudo apt-get update &&
           sudo apt-get install -qy
@@ -55,15 +47,96 @@ jobs:
             protobuf-c-compiler
             tcl
             uuid-dev
-            zlib1g-dev &&
+            zlib1g-dev
+        '
+      - name: Build from source
+        run: '
           (
-            mkdir original_comdb2/build &&
-            cd original_comdb2/build &&
+            mkdir bloomberg-comdb2/build &&
+            cd bloomberg-comdb2/build &&
             cmake .. &&
-            make &&
-            sudo make install
+            make
           )
         '
+      - name: Archive bloomberg-comdb2 repo with build artifacts
+        run: 'tar czvf bloomberg-comdb2.tar.gz bloomberg-comdb2/'
+      - name: Upload bloomberg-comdb2 repo with build artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: bloomberg-comdb2
+          path: ./bloomberg-comdb2.tar.gz
+
+  build_sdist:
+    name: Build python-comdb2 source distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [build_bloomberg_comdb2]
+    steps:
+      - name: Download bloomberg-comdb2 with build artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: bloomberg-comdb2
+          path: .
+      - name: Install bloomberg-comdb2
+        run: '
+          sudo apt-get install -qy
+            libevent-dev
+            liblz4-dev
+            libprotobuf-c-dev
+            libsqlite3-dev
+            libssl-dev
+            libunwind-dev
+            zlib1g-dev &&
+          tar xvf bloomberg-comdb2.tar.gz &&
+          (cd bloomberg-comdb2/build && sudo make install)
+        '
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: 'Set up Python 3.8'
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4  # note that this step overwrites the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'  # the lowest version that we support in CI
+      - name: Build sdist
+        run: '
+          sudo apt-get install -qy pkg-config &&
+          PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/bb/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+          pipx run build --sdist
+        '
+      - name: Upload sdist
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: python-comdb2-sdist
+          path: dist/*.tar.gz
+
+  test:
+    name: Test suite
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [build_sdist]
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version:
+          - '3.12'
+          - '3.11'
+          - '3.10'
+          - '3.9'
+          - '3.8'
+    steps:
+      - name: Download comdb2 repo with build artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: bloomberg-comdb2
+          path: .
+      - name: Install bloomberg-comdb2
+        run: '
+          sudo apt-get install -qy
+            libevent-dev
+            liblz4-dev
+            libprotobuf-c-dev
+            libsqlite3-dev
+            libssl-dev
+            libunwind-dev
+            zlib1g-dev &&
+          tar xvf bloomberg-comdb2.tar.gz &&
+          (cd bloomberg-comdb2/build && sudo make install)
+        '
       - name: Start local comdb2 instance
         run: '
           sudo mkdir -p /opt/bb/share/schemas/$COMDB2_DBNAME &&
@@ -84,22 +157,36 @@ jobs:
             fi;
           done
         '
-      - name: Creating tables
+      - name: Download python-comdb2 sdist
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: python-comdb2-sdist
+          path: dist
+      - name: Extract python-comdb2 sdist
+        run: '
+          (cd dist/ && tar xvf comdb2-*.tar.gz && rm comdb2-*.tar.gz) &&
+          mv dist/comdb2-* python-comdb2-sdist && rmdir dist
+        '
+      - name: Create tables
         run: |
-          tables="$(cat tests/schemas/$COMDB2_DBNAME/table_constraint_order.txt)"
+          tables="$(cat python-comdb2-sdist/tests/schemas/$COMDB2_DBNAME/table_constraint_order.txt)"
           for table_name in $tables
           do
-            table_file="tests/schemas/$COMDB2_DBNAME/$table_name.csc2"
+            table_file="python-comdb2-sdist/tests/schemas/$COMDB2_DBNAME/$table_name.csc2"
             echo "Creating $table_name from $table_file"
             /opt/bb/bin/cdb2sql "$COMDB2_DBNAME" local "create table $table_name { $(cat $table_file) }"
           done
-      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4 # note that this step overwrites the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
+      - name: Set up Python ${{matrix.python_version}}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4  # note that this step overwrites the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
         with:
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      - name: Install python dependencies
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/bb/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/opt/bb/lib" python -m pip install .[tests]
+          python-version: "${{matrix.python_version}}"
+      - name: Install python-comdb2 from the sdist
+        run: '
+          sudo apt-get install -qy pkg-config &&
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip &&
+          PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/bb/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+          LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/opt/bb/lib"
+          python -m pip install ./python-comdb2-sdist[tests]
+        '
       - name: Run Tests
-        run: (cd tests && python -m pytest -vvv)
+        run: (cd python-comdb2-sdist/tests && python -m pytest -vvv)