diff --git a/.github/workflows/commands-handler.yml b/.github/workflows/commands-handler.yml
index 48f71d24..a38ac9a8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/commands-handler.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/commands-handler.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
+          submodules: recursive
       - name: Checkout release actions
         if: steps.user-check.outputs.expected-user == 'true'
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index e5850a79..228366ca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # This should be the same as the one specified for on.pull_request.branches
           ref: master
+          submodules: recursive
       - name: Checkout actions
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-build.sh b/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-build.sh
index be41994a..5587166f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-build.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-build.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 echo "Build Chat SDK module artifacts"
-./gradlew jar --no-configuration-cache
\ No newline at end of file
+./gradlew jar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-publish.sh b/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-publish.sh
index 15db904b..04a7637a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-publish.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/release/chat-maven-publish.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-./gradlew publishToSonatype closeSonatypeStagingRepository --no-configuration-cache
+./gradlew publishToSonatype closeSonatypeStagingRepository
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release/pre-github-pages-publish.sh b/.github/workflows/release/pre-github-pages-publish.sh
index 0e289f10..fb521b17 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release/pre-github-pages-publish.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/release/pre-github-pages-publish.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-./gradlew :dokkaGfmMultiModule --no-configuration-cache
\ No newline at end of file
+./gradlew :dokkaGfmMultiModule
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
index 4fb40864..601e52ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
           ./gradlew check
         env:
           SDK_PUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_PUB_KEY }}
-          SDK_SUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_PUB_KEY }}
+          SDK_SUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_SUB_KEY }}
           SDK_PAM_SUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_PAM_SUB_KEY }}
           SDK_PAM_PUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_PAM_PUB_KEY }}
           SDK_PAM_SEC_KEY: ${{ secrets.SDK_PAM_SEC_KEY }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-validations.yml b/.github/workflows/run-validations.yml
index b3e93b91..e19268d7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-validations.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-validations.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
           restore-keys: |
             ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-
       - name: Validate clean build
-        run: ./gradlew apiCheck ktlintFormat publishAllPublicationsToRepoRepository
+        run: ./gradlew apiCheck ktlintFormat publishAllPublicationsToRepoRepository -PRELEASE_SIGNING_ENABLED=false
       - name: Cancel workflow runs for commit on error
         if: failure()
         uses: ./.github/.release/actions/actions/utils/fast-jobs-failure
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 83989355..c01d2dea 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 kotlin.code.style=official
-org.gradle.configuration-cache=true
 org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.parallel=true
 kotlin.mpp.applyDefaultHierarchyTemplate=false
 
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
diff --git a/pubnub-kotlin b/pubnub-kotlin
index c14c2005..8b7eb393 160000
--- a/pubnub-kotlin
+++ b/pubnub-kotlin
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit c14c2005b222389c7af028bf2aefd364d9eeb3d9
+Subproject commit 8b7eb393d98b2e98728e3e09a040dbbea0d73441