Revert of caf6e6c3. The owner's field report disproved the diagnosis: HACS
2.0.5 downloads zip_release assets fine, because async_download_file strips
the 'tags/' prefix from the composed URL before requesting (hacs/base.py) —
the prefix only survives in the error-log message, which prints the
unnormalized URL. The dacha installed every beta and v1.68.0 through HACS
with zip_release active. The observed 'Failed to download' was a transient
network failure fetching release-assets.githubusercontent.com (five retries
exhausted, one occurrence), not a routing bug.
Issue: #325
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Installing a specific version from the HACS catalog fails: HACS composes the
zip_release asset URL from its internal ref 'tags/<version>' without
stripping the prefix (hacs/integration base.py:932 -> download_zip_files ->
github_release_asset), requesting releases/download/tags/v1.68.0/... which
GitHub cannot serve. A mirror tag with a slash is not servable either.
Without zip_release HACS falls back to the regular tag-tree download that
worked before 2026-08-08. Release assets keep being attached
(release-zip.yml untouched) so re-enabling after the upstream fix is a
one-line revert.
Issue: #325
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HACS will install from the named asset instead of the auto zipball, so
GitHub's public download counter becomes a per-version install metric.
The workflow also has a manual dispatch to backfill an existing release.
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