diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 04e84f8..45a346d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.6.10
+0.6.11
diff --git a/actions/release-post-merge/action.yml b/actions/release-post-merge/action.yml
index b07ea36..78d5ace 100644
--- a/actions/release-post-merge/action.yml
+++ b/actions/release-post-merge/action.yml
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ runs:
         PREPARED_RELEASE_ID: ${{ steps.finalize.outputs.prepared-release-id }}
       run: |
         set -euo pipefail
+        set +e
         php "${RELEASE_TOOL_PATH}" release:draft \
           --prepared "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/prepared-release.json" \
           --milestone "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/milestone-transition.json" \
@@ -207,6 +208,12 @@ runs:
           --root . \
           --json \
           > "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/release-draft.json"
+        status=$?
+        set -e
+        if [[ "${status}" -ne 0 ]]; then
+          cat "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/release-draft.json" || true
+          exit "${status}"
+        fi
 
         draft_id="$(php -r '$d=json_decode(file_get_contents($argv[1]),true,512,JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR); echo $d["id"];' "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/release-draft.json")"
         release_id="$(php -r '$d=json_decode(file_get_contents($argv[1]),true,512,JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR); echo $d["github_release"]["id"];' "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/release-draft.json")"
diff --git a/actions/release-tool-setup/release-tool-version b/actions/release-tool-setup/release-tool-version
index 9b40aa6..9028ec6 100644
--- a/actions/release-tool-setup/release-tool-version
+++ b/actions/release-tool-setup/release-tool-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.10.4
+0.10.5
diff --git a/tests/test_release_post_merge_action.py b/tests/test_release_post_merge_action.py
index f42d356..4c502d9 100644
--- a/tests/test_release_post_merge_action.py
+++ b/tests/test_release_post_merge_action.py
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ def test_mutating_stages_use_scoped_tokens(self) -> None:
         self.assertIn("permission-pull-requests: read", content)
         self.assertIn("GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.github-token }}", content)
 
+    def test_release_draft_errors_are_exposed(self) -> None:
+        content = ACTION.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        draft = content.index("Create or update GitHub Release draft")
+        tail = content[draft:]
+        self.assertIn('status=$?', tail)
+        self.assertIn('cat "${RELEASE_STATE_DIR}/release-draft.json" || true', tail)
+
     def test_contract_chain_is_persisted_for_publication(self) -> None:
         content = ACTION.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
         self.assertIn("release:finalize", content)