diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev-builds.yml b/.github/workflows/dev-builds.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c1dac23c067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev-builds.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+name: Build pre-release
+# Don't enable CI on push, just on PR. If you
+# are working on the main repo and want to trigger
+# a CI build submit a draft PR.
+on: 
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+      mmosca-update-github-actions
+  #pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+        matrix:
+          id: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install ninja-build
+      - name: Setup environment
+        env:
+          ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: true
+        run: |
+          # This is the hash of the commit for the PR
+          # when the action is triggered by PR, empty otherwise
+          COMMIT_ID=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # This is the hash of the commit when triggered by push
+          # but the hash of refs/pull/<n>/merge, which is different
+          # from the hash of the latest commit in the PR, that's
+          # why we try github.event.pull_request.head.sha first
+          COMMIT_ID=${COMMIT_ID:-${{ github.sha }}}
+          BUILD_SUFFIX=dev-$(date '+%Y%m%d')-$(git rev-parse --short ${COMMIT_ID})
+          VERSION=$(grep project CMakeLists.txt|awk -F VERSION '{ gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t\)]+$/, "", $2); print $2 }')
+          echo "BUILD_SUFFIX=${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "BUILD_NAME=inav-${VERSION}-${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: downloads
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-downloads-${{ hashFiles('CMakeLists.txt') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/cmake/*')}}
+      - name: Build targets (${{ matrix.id }})
+        run: mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=ON -DCI_JOB_INDEX=${{ matrix.id }} -DCI_JOB_COUNT=${{ strategy.job-total }} -DBUILD_SUFFIX=${{ env.BUILD_SUFFIX }} -DVERSION_TYPE=dev -G Ninja .. && ninja ci
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: ${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}.${{ matrix.id }}
+          path: ./build/*.hex
+
+  build-SITL-Linux:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install ninja-build
+      - name: Setup environment
+        env:
+          ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: true
+        run: |
+          # This is the hash of the commit for the PR
+          # when the action is triggered by PR, empty otherwise
+          COMMIT_ID=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # This is the hash of the commit when triggered by push
+          # but the hash of refs/pull/<n>/merge, which is different
+          # from the hash of the latest commit in the PR, that's
+          # why we try github.event.pull_request.head.sha first
+          COMMIT_ID=${COMMIT_ID:-${{ github.sha }}}
+          BUILD_SUFFIX=dev-$(date '+%Y%m%d')-$(git rev-parse --short ${COMMIT_ID})
+          VERSION=$(grep project CMakeLists.txt|awk -F VERSION '{ gsub(/[ \t\)]+/, "", $2); print $2 }')
+          echo "BUILD_SUFFIX=${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "BUILD_NAME=inav-${VERSION}-${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Build SITL
+        run: mkdir -p build_SITL && cd build_SITL && cmake -DSITL=ON -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=ON -G Ninja -DVERSION_TYPE=dev .. && ninja
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: sitl-${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}-Linux
+          path: ./build_SITL/*_SITL
+
+  build-SITL-Mac:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          brew install cmake ninja ruby
+
+      - name: Setup environment
+        env:
+          ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: true
+        run: |
+          # This is the hash of the commit for the PR
+          # when the action is triggered by PR, empty otherwise
+          COMMIT_ID=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # This is the hash of the commit when triggered by push
+          # but the hash of refs/pull/<n>/merge, which is different
+          # from the hash of the latest commit in the PR, that's
+          # why we try github.event.pull_request.head.sha first
+          COMMIT_ID=${COMMIT_ID:-${{ github.sha }}}
+          BUILD_SUFFIX=dev-$(date '+%Y%m%d')-$(git rev-parse --short ${COMMIT_ID})
+          VERSION=$(grep project CMakeLists.txt|awk -F VERSION '{ gsub(/[ \t\)]+/, "", $2); print $2 }')
+          echo "BUILD_SUFFIX=${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "BUILD_NAME=inav-${VERSION}-${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Build SITL
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p build_SITL && cd build_SITL
+          cmake -DSITL=ON -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64;x86_64" -DVERSION_TYPE=dev -G Ninja ..
+          ninja
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: sitl-${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}-MacOS
+          path: ./build_SITL/*_SITL
+
+  build-SITL-Windows:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -o igncr '{0}'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Cygwin
+        uses: egor-tensin/setup-cygwin@v4
+        with:
+          packages: cmake ruby ninja gcc-g++
+      - name: Setup environment
+        env:
+          ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: true
+        run: |
+          # This is the hash of the commit for the PR
+          # when the action is triggered by PR, empty otherwise
+          COMMIT_ID=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # This is the hash of the commit when triggered by push
+          # but the hash of refs/pull/<n>/merge, which is different
+          # from the hash of the latest commit in the PR, that's
+          # why we try github.event.pull_request.head.sha first
+          COMMIT_ID=${COMMIT_ID:-${{ github.sha }}}
+          BUILD_SUFFIX=dev-$(date '+%Y%m%d')-$(git rev-parse --short ${COMMIT_ID})
+          VERSION=$(grep project CMakeLists.txt|awk -F VERSION '{ gsub(/[ \t\)]+/, "", $2); print $2 }')
+          #echo "BUILD_SUFFIX=${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          #echo "BUILD_NAME=inav-${VERSION}-${BUILD_SUFFIX}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          #echo "VERSION_TAG=-$(date '+%Y%m%d')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "version=${VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: Build SITL
+        run: mkdir -p build_SITL && cd build_SITL && cmake -DSITL=ON -DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=ON -DVERSION_TYPE=dev -G Ninja .. && ninja
+      - name: Upload artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: sitl-${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}-WIN
+          path: ./build_SITL/*.exe
+
+
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install ninja-build
+      - name: Run Tests
+        run: mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake -DTOOLCHAIN=none -G Ninja .. && ninja check
+
+  release:
+    needs: [build, build-SITL-Linux, build-SITL-Mac, build-SITL-Windows, test]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Get version
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          VERSION=$(grep project CMakeLists.txt|awk -F VERSION '{ gsub(/[ \t\)]+/, "", $2); print $2 }')
+          echo "version=${VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: Get current date
+        id: date
+        run: echo "today=$(date '+%Y%m%d')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+      - name: download artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          path: hexes
+          pattern: inav-*
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: download sitl linux
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          path: resources/sitl/linux
+          pattern: sitl-*-Linux
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: download sitl windows
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          path: resources/sitl/windows
+          pattern: sitl-*-WIN
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: download sitl mac
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          path: resources/sitl/macos
+          pattern: sitl-*-MacOS
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Consolidate sitl files
+        run: |
+          zip -r -9 sitl-resources.zip resources/
+      - name: Upload release artifacts
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          name: inav-${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}-dev-${{ steps.date.outputs.today }}-${{ github.run_number }}-${{ github.sha }}
+          tag_name: v${{ steps.date.outputs.today }}.${{ github.run_number }}
+          # To create release on a different repo, we need a token setup
+          token: ${{ secrets.NIGHTLY_TOKEN }}
+          repository: iNavFlight/inav-nightly
+          prerelease: true
+          draft: false
+          #generate_release_notes: true
+          make_latest: false
+          files: |
+            hexes/*.hex
+            sitl-resources.zip
+          body: |
+            ${{ steps.notes.outputs.notes }}
+
+            ### Repository:
+            ${{ github.repository }} ([link](${{ github.event.repository.html_url }}))
+
+            ### Branch:
+            ${{ github.ref_name }} ([link](${{ github.event.repository.html_url }}/tree/${{ github.ref_name }}))
+
+            ### Latest changeset:
+            ${{ github.event.head_commit.id }} ([link](${{ github.event.head_commit.url }}))
+
+            ### Changes:
+            ${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}
+
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index db8ec36897b..9b5f40f3337 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ set(COMMON_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS
     FC_VERSION_MAJOR=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}
     FC_VERSION_MINOR=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}
     FC_VERSION_PATCH_LEVEL=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH}
+    FC_VERSION_TYPE="${VERSION_TYPE}"
 )
 
 if (NOT SITL)
diff --git a/src/main/build/version.h b/src/main/build/version.h
index 49ec81d1b11..583cdd82dd8 100644
--- a/src/main/build/version.h
+++ b/src/main/build/version.h
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@
 #define STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define STR(x) STR_HELPER(x)
 #define FC_VERSION_STRING STR(FC_VERSION_MAJOR) "." STR(FC_VERSION_MINOR) "." STR(FC_VERSION_PATCH_LEVEL)
+#ifndef FC_VERSION_TYPE
+#define FC_VERSION_TYPE ""
+#endif
 #define FC_FIRMWARE_NAME "INAV"
 
+
 #define MW_VERSION              231
 
 extern const char* const compilerVersion;
diff --git a/src/main/fc/cli.c b/src/main/fc/cli.c
index 18243fdefce..7b9c1329884 100644
--- a/src/main/fc/cli.c
+++ b/src/main/fc/cli.c
@@ -3662,13 +3662,14 @@ static void cliStatus(char *cmdline)
     char buf[MAX(FORMATTED_DATE_TIME_BUFSIZE, SETTING_MAX_NAME_LENGTH)];
     dateTime_t dt;
 
-    cliPrintLinef("%s/%s %s %s / %s (%s)",
+    cliPrintLinef("%s/%s %s %s / %s (%s) %s",
         FC_FIRMWARE_NAME,
         targetName,
         FC_VERSION_STRING,
         buildDate,
         buildTime,
-        shortGitRevision
+        shortGitRevision,
+        FC_VERSION_TYPE
     );
     cliPrintLinef("GCC-%s",
         compilerVersion
@@ -3906,13 +3907,14 @@ static void cliVersion(char *cmdline)
 {
     UNUSED(cmdline);
 
-    cliPrintLinef("# %s/%s %s %s / %s (%s)",
+    cliPrintLinef("# %s/%s %s %s / %s (%s) %s",
         FC_FIRMWARE_NAME,
         targetName,
         FC_VERSION_STRING,
         buildDate,
         buildTime,
-        shortGitRevision
+        shortGitRevision,
+        FC_VERSION_TYPE
     );
     cliPrintLinef("# GCC-%s",
         compilerVersion