From 5f843f8bd5ea34a687bc937aba0f1137e3b113cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Salisbury <aaron.salisbury@live.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:18:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Normalize release version before validation

---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 7f25e22..f433e0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -58,9 +58,11 @@ jobs:
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
           [xml]$project = Get-Content "$env:PROJECT_PATH"
-          $version = [string]$project.Project.PropertyGroup.Version |
+          # XML element values can preserve formatting whitespace from the project file.
+          # Normalize it before validating and using the version in paths/tags.
+          $version = ([string]$project.Project.PropertyGroup.Version |
             Where-Object { $_ } |
-            Select-Object -First 1
+            Select-Object -First 1).Trim()
 
           if ($version -notmatch '^(0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.(0|[1-9]\\d*)\\.(0|[1-9]\\d*)(?:-[0-9A-Za-z-]+(?:\\.[0-9A-Za-z-]+)*)?(?:\\+[0-9A-Za-z-]+(?:\\.[0-9A-Za-z-]+)*)?$') {
             throw "Project version '$version' is not a valid semantic version."