diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ccb7fa28..4efa88b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
           node-version: 18.x
       - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
         with:
-          version: 8.0.0
+          version: 8.x.x
       - name: run unit tests
         run: |
           pnpm install
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 656f2737..3657916b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ on:
 
 env:
   CI: true
-  PNPM_CACHE_FOLDER: .pnpm-store
 
 jobs:
   release:
@@ -25,12 +24,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           node-version: 18.x
 
-      - name: install pnpm
-        run: npm i pnpm@latest -g
-      - name: Setup npmrc
-        run: echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}" > .npmrc
-      - name: setup pnpm config
-        run: pnpm config set store-dir $PNPM_CACHE_FOLDER
+      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
+        with:
+          version: 8.x.x
       - name: install dependencies
         run: pnpm install
       - name: create and publish versions
@@ -41,14 +37,5 @@ jobs:
           title: 'chore: update versions'
           publish: pnpm ci:publish
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Create Release Pull Request or Publish to npm
-        id: changesets
-        uses: changesets/action@master
-        with:
-          # This expects you to have a script called release which does a build for your packages and calls changeset publish
-          version: yarn version-packages
-          publish: yarn release
-        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}