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 This file contains a description of the major changes to the EESSI
 build-and-deploy bot. For more detailed information, please see the git log.
 
+v0.4.0 (28 February 2024)
+--------------------------
+
+This is a minor release of the EESSI build-and-deploy bot.
+
+Bug fixes:
+* fixes issue using wrong values when using the `bot: status` command (#251)
+
+Improvements:
+* the bot report when downloading the pull request's contents failed (#248)
+* adding the pull request comment id to the metadata file that is uploaded to the
+  the S3 bucket (#247, #249, #250, #253)
+* enabling configurable upload directories for tarball and metadata file (#254)
+* the bot only responds to pull request comments that contain a bot command (#257)
+
+
 v0.3.0 (30 January 2024)
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