actions/upload-artifact@v4 reads any non-github.com forge as GHES and refuses to run, so the AAB handoff failed on Gitea and took the whole 2.17.0 release down with it — the step sat before the F-Droid publish without continue-on-error, so no APK shipped, no tag, no Codeberg release. Switch both sides to the patched fork (pinned to a commit), move the AAB build + handoff to the end of the release job, and make both non-fatal.