diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-release-branch.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release-branch.yml
index 3817e80d39..45e15469c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-release-branch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-release-branch.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Create Pull Request
         uses: actions/github-script@v7
         with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.RENKUBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.RENKUBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           script: |
             const { repo, owner } = context.repo;
             const result = await github.rest.pulls.create({
@@ -54,9 +54,11 @@ jobs:
               head: 'release-${{ github.event.inputs.version }}',
               base: '${{ github.event.inputs.target_branch }}',
               body: [
+                'Release ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}',
+                '',
+                'This PR is auto-generated by [actions/github-script](https://github.com/actions/github-script).',
+                '',
                 '/deploy ',
-                'This PR is auto-generated by',
-                '[actions/github-script](https://github.com/actions/github-script).'
               ].join('\n')
             });
             github.rest.issues.addLabels({
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 7426a984f2..f4bbf5ba68 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,51 +1,25 @@
 .. _changelog:
 
-0.48.0
+
+0.49.0
 ------
 
-This release contains a new privacy policy and terms of use in the UI and bug fixes to renku core service related to project migration.
+This release contains bug fixes to renku core service related to project migration.
 
 User-Facing Changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-**🌟 New Features**
-
-- 📜 **UI**: Show terms of use and privacy policy in the help section
-  (`#2954 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2954>`_).
-
-**✨ Improvements**
-
-- 🖌 **UI**: Improve appearance of templates on new project page
-  (`#2999 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2999>`_).
-- 🛑 **UI**: Unify appearance of project settings alerts
-  (`#3001 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3001>`_).
-
 **🐞 Bug Fixes**
 
 - **Core Service**: Fix issue with having to run project migration twice to migrate the Dockerfile/project template.
   (`#3690 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3690>`__)
-  - **UI**: Restore logged in/out notifications
-  (`#3014 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3014>`_).
-- **UI**: Hide button to add storage on deployments not supporting external storages
-  (`#3001 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3001>`_).
-- **UI**: Fix landing page parallax background (`#3010 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3010>`_).
-- **UI**: Fix search bar styles (`#3019 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3019>`_).
-- **UI**: Handle ``jsonrpc`` improper redirects (`#3017 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/3017>`_, `#2966 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2966>`_).
 
-Internal Changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-**Improvements**
-
-- **UI**: Add initial alpha implementation of Renku 1.0 projects
-  (`#2875 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2875>`_).
 
 Individual Components
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 - `renku-python 2.9.2 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/releases/tag/2.9.2>`_
-- `renku-ui 3.20.1 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/releases/tag/3.20.1>`_
-- `renku-ui 3.20.0 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/releases/tag/3.20.0>`_
+
 
 0.47.1
 ------
diff --git a/acceptance-tests/.scalafmt.conf b/acceptance-tests/.scalafmt.conf
index d37a95795b..0e06410bac 100644
--- a/acceptance-tests/.scalafmt.conf
+++ b/acceptance-tests/.scalafmt.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version = "3.7.17"
+version = "3.8.0"
 
 runner.dialect = "scala213"
 
diff --git a/acceptance-tests/build.sbt b/acceptance-tests/build.sbt
index 27fe293ace..d64af5e984 100644
--- a/acceptance-tests/build.sbt
+++ b/acceptance-tests/build.sbt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ publishTo := Some(Resolver.file("Unused transient repository", file("target/unus
 
 val circeVersion = "0.14.6"
 
-libraryDependencies += "ch.qos.logback"          % "logback-classic"               % "1.4.14"
+libraryDependencies += "ch.qos.logback"          % "logback-classic"               % "1.5.0"
 libraryDependencies += "com.github.pureconfig"  %% "pureconfig"                    % "0.17.5"     % Test
 libraryDependencies += "eu.timepit"             %% "refined"                       % "0.11.1"     % Test
 libraryDependencies += "io.circe"               %% "circe-core"                    % circeVersion % Test
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ libraryDependencies += "org.scalacheck"         %% "scalacheck"
 libraryDependencies += "org.scalatest"          %% "scalatest"                     % "3.2.17"     % Test
 libraryDependencies += "org.scalatestplus"      %% "selenium-4-1"                  % "3.2.12.1"   % Test
 libraryDependencies += "org.seleniumhq.selenium" % "selenium-http-jdk-client"      % "4.13.0"     % Test
-libraryDependencies += "org.seleniumhq.selenium" % "selenium-java"                 % "4.17.0"     % Test
+libraryDependencies += "org.seleniumhq.selenium" % "selenium-java"                 % "4.18.1"     % Test
 libraryDependencies += "org.slf4j"               % "slf4j-log4j12"                 % "2.0.11"     % Test
 libraryDependencies += "org.typelevel"          %% "cats-effect"                   % "3.5.3"      % Test
 libraryDependencies += "org.typelevel"          %% "cats-effect-testing-scalatest" % "1.5.0"      % Test