diff --git a/.github/workflows/create_testing_release.yml b/.github/workflows/create_testing_release.yml
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+name: Deploy staging
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - testing
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  create_pre_release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          ref: 'testing'
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Use Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: '.nvmrc'
+      - name: Cache node modules
+        uses: actions/cache@v1.1.2
+        with:
+          path: ./node_modules
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-yarn-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}
+      - name: install dependencies
+        run: yarn install
+      - name: Cache build
+        id: cache-build
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ./prod
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-build-${{ hashFiles('app/**/*.*') }}-${{ hashFiles('database/**/*.*') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package.json') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/run.js') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/server.js') }}
+      - name: build production
+        if: steps.cache-build.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: yarn production-build
+      - uses: webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.5.4
+        with:
+          ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }}
+      - name: Testing release
+        run: ./scripts/testing-release.sh ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_SERVER }} ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_USER }} ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: get-npm-version
+        id: package-version
+        uses: martinbeentjes/npm-get-version-action@master
+
+      - name: Create Sentry release
+        uses: getsentry/action-release@v1
+        env:
+          SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
+          SENTRY_ORG: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_ORG }}
+          SENTRY_PROJECT: uwazi-api
+        with:
+          environment: testing
+          projects: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_PROJECTS }}
+          version: ${{ steps.package-version.outputs.current-version}}
+          ignore_empty: true
diff --git a/scripts/testing-release.sh b/scripts/testing-release.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# server=${1}
+# ssh_user=${2}
+gh_token=${3}
+
+release_version="$(yarn version | grep version: | cut -d" " -f4)"
+# previous_tag="$(git tag -l --sort=committerdate | grep "\-rc" | tail -n1)"
+# release_notes="$(git log --oneline "$previous_tag".. | grep -v Merge | grep "(.*)" | cut -d" " -f2- |  awk '{print "* " $0}')"
+
+# echo -e "## What's changed\n\n$release_notes\n\n**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/huridocs/uwazi/compare/$previous_tag...$release_version" > release_notes.txt
+
+tar -czf uwazi_testing_release.tgz ./prod
+
+  # --notes-file release_notes.txt\
+
+GITHUB_TOKEN="$gh_token" gh release create "$release_version"\
+  --title "Testing $release_version"\
+  --prerelease\
+  --target testing\
+  uwazi_testing_release.tgz
+
+# scp uwazi_pre_release.tgz "$ssh_user"@"$server":/home/"$ssh_user"/uwazi-operations/release_builds/uwazi_pre_release.tgz