MAINT: Prep for 0.8.1

Author: larsoner

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "monthly"
+    groups:
+      actions:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
+    labels:
+      - no-changelog-entry-needed
+    cooldown:
+      default-days: 7

.github/release.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+    authors:
+      - dependabot[bot]
+      - pre-commit-ci[bot]

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Upload a Python Package using Twine when a release is created
+
+name: Build
+on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+  push:
+    branches: ["master", "maint/*"]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: ["master", "maint/*"]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  package:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install build twine
+      - run: python -m build --sdist --wheel
+      - run: twine check --strict dist/*
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist
+
+  pypi-upload:
+    needs: package
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event_name == 'release'
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write  # for trusted publishing
+    environment:
+      name: pypi
+      url: https://pypi.org/p/python-picard
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        if: github.event_name == 'release'

picard/__init__.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # Dev branch marker is: 'X.Y.devN' where N is an integer.
 #
 
-__version__ = '0.9.dev'
+__version__ = '0.8.1'
 
 from .solver import picard  # noqa
 from ._tools import permute, amari_distance  # noqa