diff --git a/.github/release.yml b/.github/release.yml
index 4e8b9054..34cd0cd3 100644
--- a/.github/release.yml
+++ b/.github/release.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ changelog:
       labels: [refactor]
     - title: 🧪 Tests
       labels: [tests]
+    - title: 🧹 Linting
+      labels: [linting]
+    - title: 🏷️ Static Typing
+      labels: [types] # as in static typing
     - title: 💥 Breaking Changes
       labels: [breaking]
     - title: 🔒 Security Fixes
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a8b66136..74d154a6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "chgnet"
-version = "0.3.8"
+version = "0.4.0"
 description = "Pretrained Universal Neural Network Potential for Charge-informed Atomistic Modeling"
 authors = [{ name = "Bowen Deng", email = "bowendeng@berkeley.edu" }]
 requires-python = ">=3.10"