diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index b9d49f7..f3629b8 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1306,3 +1306,9 @@ if $DO_LINUX || $DO_WIN || $DO_MAC; then
     [[ -d "$SCRIPT_DIR/release/windows" ]] && echo -e "    ${CYAN}windows/${NC}   — .exe + .zip"
     [[ -d "$SCRIPT_DIR/release/mac" ]]     && echo -e "    ${CYAN}mac/${NC}       — .app + .dmg"
 fi
+
+# Reaching here means the build completed (real failures exit 1 at their point of failure).
+# Exit 0 explicitly: the final `[[ -d release/mac ]] && echo` above returns non-zero on a
+# non-mac build — and since set -e exempts the left side of an &&, that status would otherwise
+# become the script's exit code and make a successful build report failure (e.g. to CI).
+exit 0