diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-hotfix.yml b/.github/workflows/release-hotfix.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0bf14bc11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-hotfix.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - v[1-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-hotfix-[1-9]+ # match branches in format v6-20-10-hotfix-1
+      - hotfix-test-[1-9]+
+
+name: Release
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    if: github.repository == 'ydb-platform/ydb-embedded-ui'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 18
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.YDB_PLATFORM_BOT_TOKEN_REPO }}
+          target-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          config-file: release-please-config-hotfix.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest-hotfix.json
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8f739d9d7..562e90ecd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [main]
+    branches:
+      - main
 
 name: Release
 
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
           node-version: 18
       - run: npm ci
       - run: npm test
-      - uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/release-please-action@v3
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.YDB_PLATFORM_BOT_TOKEN_REPO }}
           release-type: node
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest-hotfix.json b/.release-please-manifest-hotfix.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0967ef424
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-manifest-hotfix.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
diff --git a/release-please-config-hotfix.json b/release-please-config-hotfix.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1099f862a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-please-config-hotfix.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "release-type": "node",
+      "versioning": "prerelease",
+      "prerelease": true,
+      "prerelease-type": "hotfix"
+    }
+  }
+}