Merge branch 'main' into backmerge/1.0.0rc8

Author: ibraheem-abe

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
         fi
 
     - name: Upload artifact
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: dist
         path: dist/
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Download artifact
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: dist
         path: dist/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.0.0rc8 /2025-01-30
+* Minor bug fixes
+
 ## 1.0.0rc7 /2025-01-29
 
 ## What's Changed

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "async-substrate-interface"
-version = "1.0.0rc7"
+version = "1.0.0rc8"
 description = "Asyncio library for interacting with substrate. Mostly API-compatible with py-substrate-interface"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }