diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebf23ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: "Release version, for example 0.1.0 or v0.1.0"
+        required: true
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+    paths:
+      - "rockspec/**"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    if: "${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'feat: release ') }}"
+    name: Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Install Lua
+        uses: leafo/gh-actions-lua@35bcb06abec04ec87df82e08caa84d545348536e
+        with:
+          luaVersion: "5.1.5"
+
+      - name: Install LuaRocks
+        uses: leafo/gh-actions-luarocks@e65774a6386cb4f24e293dca7fc4ff89165b64c5
+        with:
+          luarocksVersion: "3.11.1"
+
+      - name: Install upload dependency
+        run: luarocks install dkjson
+
+      - name: Extract release name
+        id: release_env
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          HEAD_COMMIT_MESSAGE: ${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
+        run: |
+          semver_re="^v?([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?)$"
+          if [ -n "$RELEASE_VERSION" ]; then
+              if [[ $RELEASE_VERSION =~ $semver_re ]]; then
+                  version="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+              else
+                  echo "version input is not correct (expected: X.Y.Z[-prerelease])"
+                  exit 1
+              fi
+          else
+              title="${HEAD_COMMIT_MESSAGE%%$'\n'*}"
+              if [[ $title =~ ^(.*)\ \(#[0-9]+\)$ ]]; then
+                  title="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+              fi
+              title_re="^feat: release v?([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?)$"
+              if [[ $title =~ $title_re ]]; then
+                  version="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+              else
+                  echo "commit format is not correct (expected: feat: release vX.Y.Z[-prerelease])"
+                  exit 1
+              fi
+          fi
+
+          echo "version=v${version}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "version_without_v=${version}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          if [[ $version == *-* ]]; then
+              echo "is_prerelease=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+              echo "is_prerelease=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+
+      - name: Verify rockspec exists
+        id: verify_rockspec
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          VERSION_WITHOUT_V: ${{ steps.release_env.outputs.version_without_v }}
+        run: |
+          rockspec_file="$(python3 - <<'PY'
+          import os
+          import re
+          from pathlib import Path
+
+          version = os.environ["VERSION_WITHOUT_V"]
+          pattern = re.compile(r"^api7-lua-resty-simdjson-" + re.escape(version) + r"-(\d+)\.rockspec$")
+          matches = []
+          for path in Path("rockspec").glob("api7-lua-resty-simdjson-" + version + "-*.rockspec"):
+              match = pattern.match(path.name)
+              if match:
+                  matches.append((int(match.group(1)), str(path)))
+          if not matches:
+              raise SystemExit("rockspec file not found for version " + version)
+          print(max(matches)[1])
+          PY
+          )"
+          echo "rockspec_file=${rockspec_file}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Validate LuaRocks token
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          LUAROCKS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LUAROCKS_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$LUAROCKS_TOKEN" ]; then
+              echo "LUAROCKS_TOKEN secret is not configured"
+              exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Create Release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@3bb12739c298aeb8a4eeaf626c5b8d85266b0e65
+        with:
+          tag_name: ${{ steps.release_env.outputs.version }}
+          name: ${{ steps.release_env.outputs.version }}
+          draft: false
+          prerelease: ${{ steps.release_env.outputs.is_prerelease }}
+
+      - name: Upload to LuaRocks
+        env:
+          LUAROCKS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.LUAROCKS_TOKEN }}
+          ROCKSPEC_FILE: ${{ steps.verify_rockspec.outputs.rockspec_file }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p "$HOME/.luarocks"
+          chmod 700 "$HOME/.luarocks"
+          touch "$HOME/.luarocks/upload_config.lua"
+          chmod 600 "$HOME/.luarocks/upload_config.lua"
+          lua -e 'local token = os.getenv("LUAROCKS_TOKEN"); assert(token and token ~= "", "missing LUAROCKS_TOKEN"); local f = assert(io.open(os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.luarocks/upload_config.lua", "w")); assert(f:write(("key = %q\n"):format(token))); assert(f:write("server = \"https://luarocks.org\"\nversion = \"1.0\"\n")); assert(f:close())'
+          luarocks upload "$ROCKSPEC_FILE"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index c0328e3..0bac405 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install packages
       run: |
         sudo apt update
-        sudo apt-get install -qq -y wget cpanminus net-tools libpcre3-dev build-essential valgrind
+        sudo apt-get install -qq -y wget cpanminus net-tools libpcre3-dev build-essential valgrind lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev luarocks
         if [ ! -e perl ]; then sudo cpanm --notest Test::Nginx > build.log 2>&1 || (cat build.log && exit 1); cp -r /usr/local/share/perl/ .; else sudo cp -r perl /usr/local/share; fi
 
     - name: Download OpenResty
@@ -67,6 +67,41 @@ jobs:
         openresty -V
         make test OPENRESTY_PREFIX=${BASE_PATH}/openresty DEBUG=true
 
+    - name: Validate LuaRocks package
+      run: |
+        export PATH=${BASE_PATH}/openresty/bin:$PATH
+        rm -rf /tmp/lua-resty-simdjson-rock
+        ROCKSPEC="$(python3 - <<'PY'
+        import re
+        from pathlib import Path
+
+        pattern = re.compile(r"^api7-lua-resty-simdjson-(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)(?:-([0-9A-Za-z.-]+))?-(\d+)\.rockspec$")
+        def prerelease_key(value):
+            if value is None:
+                return ()
+            key = []
+            for part in value.split("."):
+                if part.isdigit():
+                    key.append((0, int(part)))
+                else:
+                    key.append((1, part))
+            return tuple(key)
+
+        matches = []
+        for path in Path("rockspec").glob("api7-lua-resty-simdjson-*.rockspec"):
+            match = pattern.match(path.name)
+            if match:
+                major, minor, patch, prerelease, revision = match.groups()
+                matches.append((int(major), int(minor), int(patch), prerelease is None, prerelease_key(prerelease), int(revision), str(path)))
+        if not matches:
+            raise SystemExit("no api7-lua-resty-simdjson rockspec found")
+        print(max(matches)[-1])
+        PY
+        )"
+        luarocks --lua-version=5.1 make "$ROCKSPEC" --tree /tmp/lua-resty-simdjson-rock
+        eval "$(luarocks --lua-version=5.1 path --tree /tmp/lua-resty-simdjson-rock)"
+        resty -e 'local simdjson = require("resty.simdjson"); local parser = assert(simdjson.new()); local obj = parser:decode("{\"a\":42}"); assert(obj.a == 42); assert(parser:encode(obj) == "{\"a\":42}")'
+
     - name: Run Valgrind
       run: |
         export PATH=${BASE_PATH}/openresty/bin:$PATH
diff --git a/rockspec/api7-lua-resty-simdjson-0.1.0-1.rockspec b/rockspec/api7-lua-resty-simdjson-0.1.0-1.rockspec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5873cb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rockspec/api7-lua-resty-simdjson-0.1.0-1.rockspec
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package = "api7-lua-resty-simdjson"
+version = "0.1.0-1"
+supported_platforms = { "linux", "macosx" }
+
+source = {
+    url = "git+https://github.com/api7/lua-resty-simdjson.git",
+    tag = "v0.1.0",
+}
+
+description = {
+    summary = "Fast JSON encoder and decoder for OpenResty",
+    detailed = [[
+        lua-resty-simdjson provides a LuaJIT FFI binding for simdjson.
+        It is optimized for decoding large JSON payloads in OpenResty while
+        keeping proxy path latency low through optional yielding.
+    ]],
+    homepage = "https://github.com/api7/lua-resty-simdjson",
+    license = "Apache-2.0",
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+    "lua == 5.1",
+    "lua-cjson",
+    "lua-resty-core",
+}
+
+build = {
+    type = "command",
+    build_command = "make build",
+    install_command = [[
+        set -e
+        mkdir -p "$(LUADIR)/resty/simdjson" "$(LIBDIR)"
+        cp lib/resty/simdjson/*.lua "$(LUADIR)/resty/simdjson/"
+        lib=libsimdjson_ffi.so
+        if [ ! -f "$lib" ]; then lib=libsimdjson_ffi.dylib; fi
+        if [ ! -f "$lib" ]; then echo "simdjson native library not found"; exit 1; fi
+        cp "$lib" "$(LIBDIR)/"
+    ]],
+}