diff --git a/.github/workflows/_build.yaml b/.github/workflows/_build.yaml
index 94ffdb2..c4663fe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_build.yaml
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@0ad4b8fadaa221de15dcec353f45205ec38ea70b # v4.1.4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0 # IMPORTANT: otherwise the current tag does not get fetched and the build version gets worse
 
       - name: Set up Python ${{ inputs.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/_pypi_publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/_pypi_publish.yaml
index e1ad049..a304e3b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_pypi_publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_pypi_publish.yaml
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@ jobs:
   publish-to-pypi:
     name: Publish Python distribution to PyPI
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
     permissions:
       id-token: write # IMPORTANT: this permission is mandatory for OIDC publishing
+
     environment:
       name: pypi
       url: https://pypi.org/p/python-cmethods
+
     steps:
       - name: Download all the distributions
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d303183..9a100d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ include-package-data = false
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 include = ["cmethods*"]
-exclude = ["doc*", "tests*", "examples*", ".env"]
+exclude = ["doc*", "tests*", "examples*", ".env", "venv"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 write_to = "cmethods/_version.py"