diff --git a/.commitlintrc.yaml b/.commitlintrc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0b32786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.commitlintrc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+rules:
+  body-case: [2, always, sentence-case]
+  body-full-stop: [2, always]
+  body-leading-blank: [2, always]
+  body-max-line-length: [2, always, 72]
+  footer-leading-blank: [2, always]
+  footer-max-line-length: [2, always, 72]
+  header-max-length: [2, always, 72]
+  scope-case: [2, always, lower-case]
+  subject-case:
+    - 2
+    - never
+    - [pascal-case, sentence-case, start-case, upper-case]
+  subject-empty: [2, never]
+  subject-full-stop: [2, never, "."]
+  type-case: [2, always, lower-case]
+  type-empty: [2, never]
+  type-enum:
+    - 2
+    - always
+    - [build, chore, ci, docs, feat, fix, perf, refactor, style, test]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 0b36a5da..bd072f36 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
@@ -9,211 +9,237 @@ name: CI
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
 jobs:
-    lint-shellcheck:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-        steps:
-          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-          - name: Runs shell script static analysis
-            run: |
-              sudo apt-get install shellcheck
-              ./run-tests.sh --check-shellscript
-
-    lint-black:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-        steps:
-          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-          - name: Setup Python
-            uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-            with:
-              python-version: '3.8'
-
-          - name: Install Python dependencies
-            run: pip install black
-
-          - name: Check Python code formatting
-            run: ./run-tests.sh --check-black
-
-    lint-flake8:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-      steps:
-        - name: Checkout
-          uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-        - name: Setup Python
-          uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-          with:
-            python-version: '3.8'
-
-        - name: Check compliance with pep8, pyflakes and circular complexity
-          run: |
-            pip install --upgrade pip
-            pip install flake8
-            ./run-tests.sh --check-flake8
-
-    lint-pydocstyle:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-        - name: Setup Python
-          uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-          with:
-            python-version: '3.8'
-
-        - name: Install Python dependencies
-          run: pip install pydocstyle
-
-        - name: Check compliance with Python docstring conventions
-          run: ./run-tests.sh --check-pydocstyle
-
-    lint-check-manifest:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-        - name: Setup Python
-          uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-          with:
-            python-version: '3.8'
-
-        - name: Install Python dependencies
-          run: pip install check-manifest
-
-        - name: Check Python manifest completeness
-          run: ./run-tests.sh --check-manifest
-
-    docs-cli-commands:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-        steps:
-          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-          - name: Setup Python
-            uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-            with:
-                python-version: '3.8'
-
-          - name: Install Python dependencies
-            run: |
-                pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
-                pip install -e .[all]
-
-          - name: Verify reana client commands list
-            run: ./run-tests.sh --check-cli-cmds
-
-    docs-cli-api:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-        steps:
-          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-          - name: Setup Python
-            uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-            with:
-                python-version: '3.8'
-
-          - name: Install Python dependencies
-            run: |
-                pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
-                pip install -e .[all]
-
-          - name: Verify reana client api docs
-            run: ./run-tests.sh --check-cli-api
-
-    docs-sphinx:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-        - name: Setup Python
-          uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-          with:
-            python-version: '3.8'
-
-        - name: Install Python dependencies
-          run: |
-            pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
-            pip install -e .[all]
-
-        - name: Run Sphinx documentation with doctests
-          run: ./run-tests.sh --check-sphinx
-
-    python-tests:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-        strategy:
-          matrix:
-              include:
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.6'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.6'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.7'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.7'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.8'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.8'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.9'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.9'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.10'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.10'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.11'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.11'
-
-                - testenv: lowest
-                  python: '3.12'
-
-                - testenv: release
-                  python: '3.12'
-        steps:
-          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-          - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-            uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-            with:
-              python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-
-          - name: Setup requirements builder
-            run: |
-              pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
-              pip install wheel
-              pip install requirements-builder
-              if [[ ${{ matrix.testenv }} == lowest ]]; then
-                  requirements-builder -e all --level=min --req requirements-dev.txt setup.py > .lowest-requirements.txt
-              fi
-              if [[ ${{ matrix.testenv }} == release ]]; then
-                  requirements-builder -e all --level=pypi --req requirements-dev.txt setup.py > .release-requirements.txt
-              fi
-
-          - name: Install Python dependencies
-            run: |
-              pip install -r .${{ matrix.testenv }}-requirements.txt
-
-          - name: Run pytest
-            run: ./run-tests.sh --check-pytest
-
-          - name: Codecov Coverage
-            if: matrix.python == '3.8'
-            uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-            with:
-              token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-              files: coverage.xml
+  lint-commitlint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+
+      - name: Install commitlint
+        run: |
+          npm install conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
+          npm install commitlint@latest
+
+      - name: Check commit message compliance of the recently pushed commit
+        if: github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-commitlint HEAD~1 HEAD
+
+      - name: Check commit message compliance of the pull request
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: |
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-commitlint ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}~${{ github.event.pull_request.commits }} ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+
+  lint-shellcheck:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Runs shell script static analysis
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install shellcheck
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-shellcheck
+
+  lint-black:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: pip install black
+
+      - name: Check Python code formatting
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-black
+
+  lint-flake8:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Check compliance with pep8, pyflakes and circular complexity
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install flake8
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-flake8
+
+  lint-pydocstyle:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: pip install pydocstyle
+
+      - name: Check compliance with Python docstring conventions
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-pydocstyle
+
+  lint-check-manifest:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: pip install check-manifest
+
+      - name: Check Python manifest completeness
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-manifest
+
+  docs-cli-commands:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
+          pip install -e .[all]
+
+      - name: Verify reana client commands list
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-cli-cmds
+
+  docs-cli-api:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
+          pip install -e .[all]
+
+      - name: Verify reana client api docs
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-cli-api
+
+  docs-sphinx:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
+          pip install -e .[all]
+
+      - name: Run Sphinx documentation with doctests
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-sphinx
+
+  python-tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.6'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.6'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.7'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.7'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.8'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.8'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.9'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.9'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.10'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.10'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.11'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.11'
+
+          - testenv: lowest
+            python: '3.12'
+
+          - testenv: release
+            python: '3.12'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
+
+      - name: Setup requirements builder
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools py
+          pip install wheel
+          pip install requirements-builder
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.testenv }} == lowest ]]; then
+          requirements-builder -e all --level=min --req requirements-dev.txt setup.py > .lowest-requirements.txt
+          fi
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.testenv }} == release ]]; then
+          requirements-builder -e all --level=pypi --req requirements-dev.txt setup.py > .release-requirements.txt
+          fi
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install -r .${{ matrix.testenv }}-requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Run pytest
+        run: ./run-tests.sh --check-pytest
+
+      - name: Codecov Coverage
+        if: matrix.python == '3.8'
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+          files: coverage.xml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..253a7a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - maint-0.9
+      - master
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+name: release-please
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          config-file: .release-please-config.json
+          target-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
diff --git a/.release-please-config.json b/.release-please-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a418abc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "include-v-in-tag": false,
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "changelog-sections": [
+        { "type": "build", "section": "Build", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "feat", "section": "Features", "hidden": false  },
+        { "type": "fix", "section": "Bug fixes", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "perf", "section": "Performance improvements", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "refactor", "section": "Code refactoring", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "style", "section": "Code style", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "test", "section": "Test suite", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "ci", "section": "Continuous integration", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "docs", "section": "Documentation", "hidden": false },
+        { "type": "chore", "section": "Chores", "hidden": true }
+      ],
+      "versioning": "always-bump-patch"
+    }
+  },
+  "pull-request-footer": " ",
+  "pull-request-header": " ",
+  "release-type": "python"
+}
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e08ec6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  ".": "0.9.2"
+}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 750cb266..f74676a6 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 CERN.
+Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 CERN.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 51862220..7c933526 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
 
+include *.json
+include *.md
 include *.rst
 include *.sh
 include *.txt
@@ -11,10 +13,10 @@ include *.yaml
 include *.yml
 include .flake8
 include LICENSE
-include docs/cmd_list.txt
-include docs/requirements.txt
 include pytest.ini
 include tox.ini
+include docs/cmd_list.txt
+include docs/requirements.txt
 exclude .readthedocs.yaml
 prune docs/_build
 recursive-include docs *.png
diff --git a/run-tests.sh b/run-tests.sh
index 22c82b03..b6ec165b 100755
--- a/run-tests.sh
+++ b/run-tests.sh
@@ -1,20 +1,34 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
 
-# Quit on errors
 set -o errexit
-
-# Quit on unbound symbols
 set -o nounset
 
+check_commitlint () {
+    from=${2:-master}
+    to=${3:-HEAD}
+    npx commitlint --from="$from" --to="$to"
+    found=0
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        if echo "$line" | grep -qP "\(\#[0-9]+\)$"; then
+            true
+        else
+            echo "✖   PR number missing in $line"
+            found=1
+        fi
+    done < <(git log "$from..$to" --format="%s")
+    if [ $found -gt 0 ]; then
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
 
-check_script () {
-    shellcheck run-tests.sh
+check_shellcheck () {
+    find . -name "*.sh" -exec shellcheck {} \;
 }
 
 check_black () {
@@ -57,7 +71,8 @@ check_pytest () {
 }
 
 check_all() {
-    check_script
+    check_commitlint
+    check_shellcheck
     check_black
     check_flake8
     check_pydocstyle
@@ -73,18 +88,17 @@ if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
     exit 0
 fi
 
-for arg in "$@"
-do
-    case $arg in
-        --check-shellscript) check_script;;
-        --check-black) check_black;;
-        --check-flake8) check_flake8;;
-        --check-pydocstyle) check_pydocstyle;;
-        --check-manifest) check_manifest;;
-        --check-cli-cmds) check_cli_cmds;;
-        --check-cli-api) check_cli_api;;
-        --check-sphinx) check_sphinx;;
-        --check-pytest) check_pytest;;
-        *)
-    esac
-done
+arg="$1"
+case $arg in
+    --check-commitlint) check_commitlint "$@";;
+    --check-shellcheck) check_shellcheck;;
+    --check-black) check_black;;
+    --check-flake8) check_flake8;;
+    --check-pydocstyle) check_pydocstyle;;
+    --check-manifest) check_manifest;;
+    --check-cli-cmds) check_cli_cmds;;
+    --check-cli-api) check_cli_api;;
+    --check-sphinx) check_sphinx;;
+    --check-pytest) check_pytest;;
+    *) echo "[ERROR] Invalid argument '$arg'. Exiting." && exit 1;;
+esac