diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index e7401054..67153706 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -109,13 +109,17 @@ jobs:
 
   semver_checks:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: false
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           submodules: true
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-rust
       - run: cargo install cargo-semver-checks || true
+      - uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: rocksdb
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-rocksdb-8.0.0
+      - run: bash .github/workflows/install_rocksdb.sh
       - run: cargo semver-checks check-release --exclude oxrocksdb-sys --exclude oxigraph-js --exclude pyoxigraph --exclude oxigraph-testsuite --exclude oxigraph-cli
 
   test_linux_x86_64:
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4a860157..96f7d6fa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "oxigraph"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "codspeed-criterion-compat",
  "digest",
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "oxigraph-cli"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "assert_cmd",
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "oxigraph-js"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "console_error_panic_hook",
  "js-sys",
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "oxigraph-testsuite"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "clap",
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "oxrocksdb-sys"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "bindgen",
  "cc",
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pyoxigraph"
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "oxigraph",
  "pyo3",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1e3a4c68..3ec94c5e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,13 +18,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 resolver = "2"
 
-[workspace.package]
-version = "0.4.0-alpha.1"
-authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
-license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
-homepage = "https://oxigraph.org/"
-edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.70"
+# TODO: use workspace.package shared metadata when https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-checks/issues/462 will be fixed
 
 [workspace.lints.rust]
 absolute_paths_not_starting_with_crate = "warn"
diff --git a/cli/Cargo.toml b/cli/Cargo.toml
index 4faf1d55..6953a318 100644
--- a/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxigraph-cli"
-version.workspace  = true
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF", "SPARQL", "graph-database", "database"]
 categories = ["command-line-utilities", "database"]
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ homepage = "https://oxigraph.org/cli/"
 description = """
 Oxigraph command line toolkit and SPARQL HTTP server
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "oxigraph"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ rustls-webpki = ["oxigraph/http-client-rustls-webpki"]
 anyhow = "1.0.72"
 oxhttp = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.3", features = ["flate2"] }
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive"] }
-oxigraph = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.1", path = "../lib" }
+oxigraph = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev", path = "../lib" }
 rand = "0.8"
 url = "2.4"
 oxiri = "0.2.3-alpha.1"
diff --git a/js/Cargo.toml b/js/Cargo.toml
index db53f10f..727b15f7 100644
--- a/js/Cargo.toml
+++ b/js/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxigraph-js"
-version.workspace  = true
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF", "N-Triples", "Turtle", "RDF/XML", "SPARQL"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/js"
 description = "JavaScript bindings of Oxigraph"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 publish = false
 
 [lib]
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 name = "oxigraph"
 
 [dependencies]
-oxigraph = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.1", path="../lib", features = ["js"] }
+oxigraph = { path = "../lib", features = ["js"] }
 wasm-bindgen = "0.2.83"
 js-sys = "0.3.60"
 console_error_panic_hook = "0.1.7"
diff --git a/lib/Cargo.toml b/lib/Cargo.toml
index 8d120326..9ea03887 100644
--- a/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxigraph"
-version.workspace  = true
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF", "SPARQL", "graph-database", "database"]
 categories = ["database-implementations"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib"
-homepage.workspace  = true
+homepage = "https://oxigraph.org/"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxigraph"
 description = """
 a SPARQL database and RDF toolkit
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ oxilangtag = "0.1"
 oxiri = "0.2.3-alpha.1"
 oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "oxrdf", features = ["rdf-star", "oxsdatatypes"] }
 oxrdfio = { version = "0.1.0-alpha.1", path = "oxrdfio", features = ["rdf-star"] }
-oxsdatatypes = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path="oxsdatatypes" }
+oxsdatatypes = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "oxsdatatypes" }
 rand = "0.8"
 regex = "1.7"
 sha1 = "0.10"
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ sha2 = "0.10"
 siphasher = ">=0.3, <2.0"
 sparesults = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "sparesults", features = ["rdf-star"] }
 spargebra = { version = "0.3.0-alpha.1", path = "spargebra", features = ["rdf-star", "sep-0002", "sep-0006"] }
-sparopt = { version = "0.1.0-alpha.1", path="sparopt", features = ["rdf-star", "sep-0002", "sep-0006"] }
+sparopt = { version = "0.1.0-alpha.1", path = "sparopt", features = ["rdf-star", "sep-0002", "sep-0006"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_family = "wasm"))'.dependencies]
 libc = "0.2.147"
-oxrocksdb-sys = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.1", path="../oxrocksdb-sys" }
+oxrocksdb-sys = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev", path = "../oxrocksdb-sys" }
 oxhttp = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.3", optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(all(target_family = "wasm", target_os = "unknown"))'.dependencies]
diff --git a/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
index d843f5d5..fdf94a51 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxrdf"
 version = "0.2.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/oxrdf"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 description = """
 A library providing basic data structures related to RDF
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxrdf"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ rdf-star = []
 rand = "0.8"
 oxilangtag = "0.1"
 oxiri = "0.2.3-alpha.1"
-oxsdatatypes = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path="../oxsdatatypes", optional = true }
+oxsdatatypes = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "../oxsdatatypes", optional = true }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/lib/oxrdfio/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxrdfio/Cargo.toml
index 5a8da469..6ded48d6 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdfio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxrdfio/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxrdfio"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/master/lib/oxrdfxml"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxrdfio"
 description = """
 Parser and serializer for various RDF formats
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/lib/oxrdfxml/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxrdfxml/Cargo.toml
index adc1ab01..2906ac0e 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdfxml/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxrdfxml/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxrdfxml"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDFXML", "XML", "RDF"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/master/lib/oxrdfxml"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 description = """
 Parser and serializer for the RDF/XML format
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxrdfxml"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/lib/oxsdatatypes/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxsdatatypes/Cargo.toml
index 8a0ca7be..f7bc1f31 100644
--- a/lib/oxsdatatypes/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxsdatatypes/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxsdatatypes"
 version = "0.2.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["XSD"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/oxsdatatypes"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 description = """
 An implementation of some XSD datatypes for SPARQL implementations
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxsdatatypes"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 js = ["js-sys"]
diff --git a/lib/oxttl/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxttl/Cargo.toml
index de0ee35d..c19cdffe 100644
--- a/lib/oxttl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxttl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxttl"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["N-Triples", "N-Quads", "Turtle", "TriG", "N3"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/master/lib/oxttl"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 description = """
 Parser and serializer for languages related to RDF Turtle (N-Triples, N-Quads, Turtle, TriG and N3)
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxttl"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/lib/sparesults/Cargo.toml b/lib/sparesults/Cargo.toml
index 7042102a..0ef5eb23 100644
--- a/lib/sparesults/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/sparesults/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "sparesults"
 version = "0.2.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["SPARQL"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/sparesults"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 description = """
 SPARQL query results formats parsers and serializers
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/sparesults"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ async-tokio = ["dep:tokio", "quick-xml/async-tokio", "json-event-parser/async-to
 [dependencies]
 json-event-parser = "0.2.0-alpha.2"
 memchr = "2.5"
-oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path="../oxrdf" }
+oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "../oxrdf" }
 quick-xml = ">=0.29, <0.32"
 tokio = { version = "1.29", optional = true, features = ["io-util"] }
 
diff --git a/lib/spargebra/Cargo.toml b/lib/spargebra/Cargo.toml
index bee08a35..620bb041 100644
--- a/lib/spargebra/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/spargebra/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "spargebra"
 version = "0.3.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["SPARQL"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/spargebra"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/spargebra"
 description = """
 A SPARQL parser
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ peg = "0.8"
 rand = "0.8"
 oxiri = "0.2.3-alpha.1"
 oxilangtag = "0.1"
-oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path="../oxrdf" }
+oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "../oxrdf" }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/lib/sparopt/Cargo.toml b/lib/sparopt/Cargo.toml
index 8f07afb7..27698646 100644
--- a/lib/sparopt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/sparopt/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "sparopt"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.1"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["SPARQL"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/sparopt"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/sparopt"
 description = """
 A SPARQL optimizer
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
@@ -21,9 +20,9 @@ sep-0002 = ["spargebra/sep-0002"]
 sep-0006 = ["spargebra/sep-0006"]
 
 [dependencies]
-oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path="../oxrdf" }
+oxrdf = { version = "0.2.0-alpha.1", path = "../oxrdf" }
 rand = "0.8"
-spargebra = { version = "0.3.0-alpha.1", path="../spargebra" }
+spargebra = { version = "0.3.0-alpha.1", path = "../spargebra" }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/lib/sparql-smith/Cargo.toml b/lib/sparql-smith/Cargo.toml
index 9682bd79..b18b94df 100644
--- a/lib/sparql-smith/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/sparql-smith/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 [package]
 name = "sparql-smith"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.5"
-authors.workspace  = true
-license.workspace  = true
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["SPARQL"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/lib/sparql-smith"
-homepage.workspace  = true
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/sparql-smith"
 description = """
 A SPARQL test cases generator
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/oxrocksdb-sys/Cargo.toml b/oxrocksdb-sys/Cargo.toml
index e77bb4cf..c767fb74 100644
--- a/oxrocksdb-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/oxrocksdb-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxrocksdb-sys"
-version.workspace  = true
-authors.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
 license = "GPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/oxrocksdb-sys"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ description = """
 Rust bindings for RocksDB for Oxigraph usage.
 """
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/oxrocksdb-sys"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 build = "build.rs"
 links = "rocksdb"
 
diff --git a/python/Cargo.toml b/python/Cargo.toml
index ef9b5933..4c5607b1 100644
--- a/python/Cargo.toml
+++ b/python/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 [package]
 name = "pyoxigraph"
-version.workspace  = true
-authors.workspace = true
-license.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["RDF", "SPARQL", "graph-database", "database"]
 repository = "https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/tree/main/python"
 homepage = "https://pyoxigraph.readthedocs.io/"
 description = "Python bindings of Oxigraph, a SPARQL database and RDF toolkit"
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace  = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 publish = false
 
 [lib]
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ rocksdb-pkg-config = ["oxigraph/rocksdb-pkg-config"]
 rustls = ["oxigraph/http-client-rustls-native"]
 
 [dependencies]
-oxigraph = { version = "0.4.0-alpha.1", path="../lib" }
+oxigraph.path = "../lib"
 pyo3 = { version = "0.20.1", features = ["extension-module"] }
 
 [lints]
diff --git a/testsuite/Cargo.toml b/testsuite/Cargo.toml
index be1b1ac0..79f6b3da 100644
--- a/testsuite/Cargo.toml
+++ b/testsuite/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 [package]
 name = "oxigraph-testsuite"
-version.workspace = true
-authors.workspace = true
-license.workspace  = true
+version = "0.4.0-alpha.2-dev"
+authors = ["Tpt <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>"]
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 description = """
 Implementation of W3C testsuites for Oxigraph
 """
-edition.workspace  = true
-rust-version.workspace = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version = "1.70"
 publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.72"
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive"] }
-oxigraph = { path = "../lib" }
-oxttl = { path= "../lib/oxttl" }
-sparopt = { path = "../lib/sparopt" }
-spargebra = { path = "../lib/spargebra" }
+oxigraph.path = "../lib"
+oxttl.path = "../lib/oxttl"
+sparopt.path = "../lib/sparopt"
+spargebra.path = "../lib/spargebra"
 text-diff = "0.4"
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["formatting"] }