diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed1fc6d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+name: Build and Publish bittensor-cli
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version to release'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build Python distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.10'
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install build wheel twine
+
+    - name: Build package
+      run: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+
+    - name: Check if package version already exists
+      run: |
+        PACKAGE_NAME=$(python setup.py --name)
+        PACKAGE_VERSION=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
+        if twine check dist/*; then
+          if pip install $PACKAGE_NAME==$PACKAGE_VERSION; then
+            echo "Error: Version $PACKAGE_VERSION of $PACKAGE_NAME already exists on PyPI"
+            exit 1
+          else
+            echo "Version $PACKAGE_VERSION of $PACKAGE_NAME does not exist on PyPI. Proceeding with upload."
+          fi
+        else
+          echo "Error: Twine check failed."
+          exit 1
+        fi
+
+    - name: Upload artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      with:
+        name: dist
+        path: dist/
+
+  approve-and-publish:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: release
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Download artifact
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      with:
+        name: dist
+        path: dist/
+
+    - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+      with:
+        verbose: true
+        print-hash: true
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diff --git a/bittensor_cli/cli.py b/bittensor_cli/cli.py
index c6c9eb9a..f35d5fc3 100755
--- a/bittensor_cli/cli.py
+++ b/bittensor_cli/cli.py
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
 
 __version__ = "8.0.0"
 
-_version_split = __version__.split(".")
+_core_version = re.match(r"^\d+\.\d+\.\d+", __version__).group(0)
+_version_split = _core_version.split(".")
 __version_info__ = tuple(int(part) for part in _version_split)
 _version_int_base = 1000
 assert max(__version_info__) < _version_int_base
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index aa22e99b..4fc8ce9b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 wheel
 async-property==0.2.2
+py-bip39-bindings==0.1.11
 aiohttp~=3.10.2
 backoff~=2.2.1
 GitPython>=3.0.0
@@ -16,5 +17,6 @@ scalecodec==1.2.11
 substrate-interface~=1.7.9
 typer~=0.12
 websockets>=12.0
-git+https://github.com/opentensor/btwallet.git#egg=bittensor-wallet
+git+https://github.com/opentensor/btwallet.git#egg=bittensor-wallet # To be removed
+# bittensor-wallet==1.0.0r  # To be uncommented after wallet release
 bt-decode==0.2.0a0  # this will change in the future to 0.2.0
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ceb0dbdc..f5f23114 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def read_requirements(path):
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     url="https://github.com/opentensor/btcli",
     author="bittensor.com",
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*", "*/tests/*", "*/tests"]),
+    packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*", "*/tests/*", "*/tests"]) + ['bittensor_cli.src.bittensor.templates'],
     include_package_data=True,
     package_data={
         "": ["templates/*"],
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def read_requirements(path):
         ],
     },
     classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 1 - Alpha",
+        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
         "Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ def read_requirements(path):
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics",
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",