From a2a3f52a9e5d4e37c5e752b8328d38700c8ddc3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Profizi <100710998+PProfizi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 15:39:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ci(post): refactor the pydpf-post branch selection logic

---
 .github/workflows/pydpf-post.yml | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pydpf-post.yml b/.github/workflows/pydpf-post.yml
index 71deba2c279..b040ef6a3d0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pydpf-post.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pydpf-post.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
       post_branch:
-        default: ''
+        default: 'main'
         type: string
       ANSYS_VERSION:
         required: false
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       post_branch:
-        description: 'PyDPF-Post branch or tag to test. Leave empty to get latest tagged version'
-        default: ''
+        description: 'PyDPF-Post branch or tag to test. Set to `latest` to get latest tagged version'
+        default: 'main'
         type: string
       ANSYS_VERSION:
         description: "ANSYS version"
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ jobs:
           REPO="https://github.com/ansys/pydpf-post.git"
           BranchName=${{ inputs.post_branch }}
           echo branch="$BranchName"
-          if [ "$BranchName" = '' ];
+          if [ "$BranchName" = 'latest' ];
           then
               BranchName=$(git ls-remote --tags --sort="v:refname" --refs $REPO | tail -n1 | cut -d/ -f3)
           fi

From fa97531813e4ec0c310fe34417be3e9496b1f51b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Profizi <100710998+PProfizi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 15:40:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Test latest pydpf-post in ci_release.yml

---
 .github/workflows/ci_release.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_release.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_release.yml
index e5639e9df90..cfccb5304ca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_release.yml
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ jobs:
       ANSYS_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version.version }}
       standalone_suffix: ${{ matrix.version.patch }}
       test_docstrings: ${{ matrix.test_docstrings }}
+      post_branch: latest
     secrets: inherit
 
   docker_tests: