[Build] Fix release pipeline failing annotation (#28272)

Signed-off-by: simon-mo <simon.mo@hey.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Mo <simon.mo@hey.com>
Co-authored-by: gemini-code-assist[bot] <176961590+gemini-code-assist[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: simon-mo

.buildkite/scripts/annotate-release.sh

@@ -2,16 +2,23 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-# Get release version and strip leading 'v' if present
-RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version | sed 's/^v//')
-
-if [ -z "$RELEASE_VERSION" ]; then
-  echo "Error: RELEASE_VERSION is empty. 'release-version' metadata might not be set or is invalid."
-  exit 1
+# Get release version, default to 1.0.0.dev for nightly/per-commit builds
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^v//')
+if [ -z "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]; then
+  RELEASE_VERSION="1.0.0.dev"
 fi
 
 buildkite-agent annotate --style 'info' --context 'release-workflow' << EOF
-To download the wheel:
+To download the wheel (by commit):
+\`\`\`
+aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl .
+aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl .
+
+aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cu129-cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl .
+aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cu129-cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl .
+\`\`\`
+
+To download the wheel (by version):
 \`\`\`
 aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${RELEASE_VERSION}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl .
 aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${RELEASE_VERSION}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl .