diff --git a/run-tests.sh b/run-tests.sh
index c3dc72fc..b6369d6d 100755
--- a/run-tests.sh
+++ b/run-tests.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ check_commitlint () {
     while IFS= read -r line; do
         if echo "$line" | grep -qP "\(\#$pr\)$"; then
             true
+        elif echo "$line" | grep -qP "^chore\(.*\): release"; then
+            true
         else
             echo "✖   Headline does not end by '(#$pr)' PR number: $line"
             found=1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1234fd3f..382e5c46 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     "click>=7",
     "pathspec==0.9.0",
     "jsonpointer>=2.0",
-    "reana-commons[yadage,snakemake,cwl]>=0.9.6,<0.10.0",
+    "reana-commons[yadage,snakemake,cwl]>=0.9.8,<0.10.0",
     "tablib>=0.12.1,<0.13",
     "werkzeug>=0.14.1 ; python_version<'3.10'",
     "werkzeug>=0.15.0 ; python_version>='3.10'",