Merging upstream version 1.8.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

.github/workflows/checkpatch.yml

@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-        fetch-depth: ${{ env.PR_FETCH_DEPTH }}
+        fetch-depth: 0
     - name: Run checkpatch review
       uses: webispy/checkpatch-action@v9

.github/workflows/coverage.yml

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: build
         run: |
           scripts/build.sh coverage
-      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
         with:
           fail_ci_if_error: false

.github/workflows/release-python.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check if it is a release tag
         id: check-tag
         run: |
-           if [[ ${{ github.event.ref }} =~ ^refs/tags/v([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(-rc[0-9]+)?$ ]]; then
+           if [[ ${{ github.event.ref }} =~ ^refs/tags/v([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(\.[0-9]+)?(-rc[0-9]+)?$ ]]; then
                echo ::set-output name=match::true
            fi
       - name: Download artifiact