diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index 6d9b325..c49bc2f 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -85,14 +85,23 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Collect artifacts
         id: collect
-        # Gather the installers + their .sig into a flat dist/ for upload.
+        # Gather the installers + their .sig into a flat dist/ for upload, spaces
+        # stripped from filenames. productName is "Parking System" (a space), so
+        # Tauri's bundle output is e.g. "Parking System_0.1.0_amd64.deb" — an
+        # unescaped space in a filename breaks the later curl asset-upload URL
+        # ("URL rejected: Malformed input to a URL function", hit on the very
+        # first v0.1.0 release) AND would land in latest.json's asset url, which
+        # the updater's plain HTTP GET can't handle either. Rename on copy.
         run: |
           set -e
           BUNDLE=apps/desktop/src-tauri/target/release/bundle
           mkdir -p dist
           find "$BUNDLE" \( -name '*.AppImage' -o -name '*.deb' -o -name '*.rpm' \
             -o -name '*.AppImage.sig' -o -name '*.deb.sig' -o -name '*.rpm.sig' \) \
-            -exec cp {} dist/ \;
+            -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do
+              name=$(basename "$f" | tr ' ' '-')
+              cp "$f" "dist/${name}"
+            done
           echo "Artifacts:"; ls -la dist/
 
       - name: Assemble latest.json