Recreate the latest release at each master build, so its date and tag are current

.github/workflows/build-linux.yml

@@ -129,14 +129,6 @@ jobs:
           make_latest: ${{ env.RELEASE == 'latest' && 'false' || 'legacy' }}
           files: projectGenerator-linux-gui.gz
 
-      - name: Update Latest Tag - DateTime
-        uses: EndBug/latest-tag@latest
-        if: github.repository == 'openframeworks/projectGenerator' && github.event_name == 'push' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/bleeding')
-        with:
-          ref: latest
-          description: Latest master build (copied to nightly every night)
-          force-branch: true
-
   # Ubuntu 22.04 build - older glibc baseline, covers users/distros that can't
   # run binaries linked against 24.04's newer glibc.
   build-linux-ubuntu22:

.github/workflows/latest-release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+name: latest-release
+
+# a master push starts the builds, which upload to the "latest" release; recreate it first so
+# its date and tag are this commit's (the builds take minutes before they upload)
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**/README.md'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+concurrency:
+  group: latest-release
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  latest-release:
+    if: github.repository == 'openframeworks/projectGenerator'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Recreate the latest release at this commit
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          gh release delete latest --repo "$REPO" --cleanup-tag --yes || echo "no latest release yet"
+          gh release create latest --repo "$REPO" --target "$GITHUB_SHA" --title latest --latest=false \
+            --notes "Latest master build from ${GITHUB_SHA:0:7} (copied to nightly every night). Files are added as each platform finishes building."