diff --git a/scripts/dl_pyapp.sh b/scripts/dl_pyapp.sh
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+++ b/scripts/dl_pyapp.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo "$PWD"
+url="https://github.com/ofek/pyapp/releases/latest/download/source.tar.gz"
+output="${PWD}/pyapp-source.tar.gz"
+curl "$url" -Lo "$output"
+tar -xzf "$output"
+mv ${PWD}/pyapp-v* ${PWD}/pyapp-latest
+rm "$output"
diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
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+++ b/scripts/release.py
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+import build
+import os
+import subprocess
+
+from importlib import metadata
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+from dzgui.const.constants import APP_NAME_LOWER
+
+root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+output = root.joinpath("dist")
+
+pyapp_dir = root.joinpath("pyapp-latest")
+
+builder = build.ProjectBuilder(root)
+builder.build("wheel", output_directory=output)
+
+interpreter="py3"
+arch="none"
+target="any"
+version = metadata.version(APP_NAME_LOWER)
+filename = f"{APP_NAME_LOWER}-{version}-{interpreter}-{arch}-{target}.whl"
+
+wheel = str(output.joinpath(filename))
+entrypoint = "dzgui.main:main"
+
+env = os.environ
+env["PYAPP_PROJECT_VERSION"] = version
+env["PYAPP_PROJECT_NAME"] = APP_NAME_LOWER
+env["PYAPP_EXEC_SPEC"] = entrypoint
+env["PYAPP_PROJECT_PATH"] = wheel
+env["PYAPP_DISTRIBUTION_EMBED"] = "1"
+env["PYAPP_PYTHON_VERSION"] = "3.13"
+
+proc = subprocess.run(["cargo", "build", "--release"], env=env, cwd=pyapp_dir)
+if proc.returncode == 0:
+    output_exe = root.joinpath("pyapp-latest/target/release/pyapp")
+    release_exe = output.joinpath("dzgui")
+    output_exe.rename(release_exe)
+    print(f"Wrote output to '{output_exe}'")