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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 ZettaScale Technology
+#
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+# terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
+# http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, or the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# which is available at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0
+#
+# Contributors:
+#   ZettaScale Zenoh Team, <zenoh@zettascale.tech>
+#
+name: Pre-Release
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * 1-5"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      features:
+        description: Build with specified features (comma separated, no space)
+        type: string
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      features:
+        description: Build with specified features (comma separated, no space)
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  checks:
+    name: Code checks
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone this repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install Rust toolchain
+        run: |
+          rustup show
+          rustup component add rustfmt clippy
+
+      - name: Code format check
+        run: cargo fmt --check
+        env:
+          CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL: sparse
+
+      - name: Clippy check
+        run: cargo +stable clippy --all-targets --features=${{ inputs.features }} -- --deny warnings
+
+      - name: Clippy unstable check
+        run: cargo +stable clippy --all-targets  -- --deny warnings
+
+      - name: Clippy all features
+        run: cargo +stable clippy --all-targets --all-features -- --deny warnings
+
+  tests:
+    name: Tests
+    needs: checks
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone this repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install Rust toolchain
+        run: rustup show
+
+      - name: Install nextest
+        run: cargo install --locked cargo-nextest
+        env:
+          CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL: sparse
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: cargo nextest run --release --features=${{ inputs.features }} --verbose
+        env:
+          CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL: sparse
+          ASYNC_STD_THREAD_COUNT: 4
+
+      - name: Run doctests
+        run: cargo test --release --features=${{ inputs.features }} --doc
+        env:
+          CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL: sparse
+          ASYNC_STD_THREAD_COUNT: 4
+
+  doc:
+    name: Doc generation
+    needs: checks
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone this repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # Use a similar command than docs.rs build: rustdoc with nightly toolchain
+      - name: Install Rust toolchain nightly for docs gen
+        run: rustup toolchain install nightly
+
+      - name: generate doc
+        # NOTE: force 'unstable' feature for doc generation, as forced for docs.rs build in zenoh/Cargo.toml
+        run: >
+          cargo +nightly rustdoc --manifest-path ./zenoh/Cargo.toml --lib --features unstable -j3
+          -Z rustdoc-map -Z unstable-options -Z rustdoc-scrape-examples
+          --config build.rustdocflags='["-Z", "unstable-options", "--emit=invocation-specific", "--cap-lints", "warn", "--disable-per-crate-search", "--extern-html-root-takes-precedence"]'
+        env:
+          RUSTDOCFLAGS: -Dwarnings