diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a7a254c..9054b65 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       id-token: write
     strategy:
+      # One package failing to upload must not cancel the uploads of the others.
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         package:
           - coordinode
@@ -180,7 +182,9 @@ jobs:
           name: dist-${{ matrix.package }}
           path: dist/
 
-      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@cef221092ed1bacb1cc03d23a2d87d1d172e277b  # release/v1
+      # twine >= 6.1 is required to accept the Metadata-Version 2.5 that current
+      # hatchling writes; older pins of this action reject the wheel outright.
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@dc37677b2e1c63e2034f94d8a5b11f265b73ba33  # v1.14.2
         with:
           packages-dir: dist/
 
@@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ jobs:
           merge-multiple: true
           path: dist/
 
-      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@cef221092ed1bacb1cc03d23a2d87d1d172e277b  # release/v1
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@dc37677b2e1c63e2034f94d8a5b11f265b73ba33  # v1.14.2
         with:
           packages-dir: dist/
 
diff --git a/coordinode-embedded/pyproject.toml b/coordinode-embedded/pyproject.toml
index ade0faa..e083be2 100644
--- a/coordinode-embedded/pyproject.toml
+++ b/coordinode-embedded/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ name = "coordinode-embedded"
 description = "CoordiNode embedded Python bindings — in-process graph database, no server required"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
+authors = [{ name = "Dmitry Prudnikov", email = "mail@polaz.com" }]
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 keywords = ["graph", "database", "cypher", "embedded", "knowledge-graph"]
 classifiers = [