Updated GitHub actions (#254)

Co-authored-by: Chiara Rasi <rasi.chiara@gmacil.com>

.github/workflows/deploy_mkdocs.yml

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
     - name: Checkout repo
-      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Setup environment for docs deployment
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: 3.x
     - name: Install mkdocs

.github/workflows/docker_build_n_publish.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
     - name: Check out git repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Publish to Registry
       uses: elgohr/Publish-Docker-Github-Action@master
       with:

.github/workflows/pypi_build_n_publish.yml

@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ on:
 jobs:
  build-n-publish:
   name: Build and publish Python distribution to PyPI
-  runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   steps:
    - name: Check out git repository
-     uses: actions/checkout@v2
+     uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-   - name: Set up Python 3.7
-     uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+   - name: Set up Python 3.8
+     uses: actions/setup-python@v5
      with:
-      python-version: 3.7
+      python-version: 3.8
 
    - name: Install build tools
      run: >-

.github/workflows/pytest_n_coveralls.yml

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ jobs:
   Pytest_Coveralls:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@master
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.7
+        python-version: 3.8
     - run: echo "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
     - name: Install Sambamba
       run: |

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - github actions to publish the repo to PyPI and publish mkdocs on new release event
 ### Changed
 - Replace ruamel.yaml with pyyaml lib
+- Updated GitHub actions
 ### Fixed
 - Add missing brew path to GitHub action. It has been removed from PATH variable in Ubuntu
 - Badges on README page