diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 5a2efda..9ad0876 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -13,19 +13,32 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Get variables
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Get version from tag
         id: version
-        run: echo "::set-output name=version::${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
+        run: echo "version=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+      - name: Read version from YAML file
+        id: read_version
+        run: |
+          yaml_version=$(grep 'project_version:' esphome/components/basis.yaml | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '"')
+          echo "yaml_version=$yaml_version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Validate version consistency
+        id: validate_version
+        run: |
+          if [ "${yaml_version}" != "${version}" ]; then
+            echo "Tag version (${version}) does not match project_version (${yaml_version}) in YAML file."
+            exit 1
+          fi
 
       - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v6.0.0
         with:
-          tag: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
-          name: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
-          version: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+          tag: ${{ env.version }}
+          name: ${{ env.version }}
+          version: ${{ env.version }}
           publish: true
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }
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+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sitemaps.yaml b/.github/workflows/sitemaps.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 945d2c8..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/sitemaps.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-name: Generate API sitemap
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ main ]
-
-jobs:
-  sitemap_job:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Generate a sitemap
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout the repo
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0 
-
-    - name: Generate the sitemap
-      id: sitemap
-      uses: cicirello/generate-sitemap@v1
-      with:
-        base-url-path: https://s0tool.nl/
-#        path-to-root: static
-  
-
-    - name: Output stats
-      run: |
-        echo "sitemap-path = ${{ steps.sitemap.outputs.sitemap-path }}"
-        echo "url-count = ${{ steps.sitemap.outputs.url-count }}"
-        echo "excluded-count = ${{ steps.sitemap.outputs.excluded-count }}"
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