diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
index b2a248d..4ab91bc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
           TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+          RELEASE: 1
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade build twine setuptools wheel
           python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
index b986e2d..ff255c9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
@@ -10,24 +10,31 @@ on:
     - cron: "59 22 * * *"
   
 jobs:
-  deploy:
-
+  build-n-publish:
+    name: Build and publish to PyPI
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install setuptools wheel twine
-    - name: Build and publish
-      env:
-        TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.TMNT_API_USERNAME }}
-        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TMNT_API_KEY }}
-      run: |
-        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-        twine upload dist/*
+      - name: Checkout source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.x"
+
+      - name: Build source and wheel distributions
+        env:
+          TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade build twine setuptools wheel
+          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+          twine upload dist/*
+          twine check --strict dist/*
+      - name: Publish distribution to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+        with:
+          user: __token__
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1da9a3f..cb6717a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 The Topic Modeling Neural Toolkit (TMNT) is a software library that enables training
 topic models as neural network-based variational auto-encoders.
 
-Current stable version is: 0.7.04
+Current stable version is: 0.7.41
 
 Documentation can be found here: https://tmnt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ee83302..99b3d29 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from setuptools.command.install import install
 from pathlib import Path
 
-version = '0.7.04'
+version = '0.7.41'
 
 try:
     if not os.getenv('RELEASE'):