diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
index e45f750e..263b5e19 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ env:
   MAIN_PYTHON_VERSION : '3.10'
   PACKAGE_NAME: 'ansys_sphinx_theme'
   DOCUMENTATION_CNAME: 'sphinxdocs.ansys.com'
-  MEILISEARCH_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MEILISEARCH_API_KEY }}
-  MEILISEARCH_PUBLIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MEILISEARCH_PUBLIC_API_KEY }}
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: "Run Ansys code style checks"
-        uses: ansys/actions/code-style@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/code-style@v8
         with:
           python-version: ${{ env.MAIN_PYTHON_VERSION }}
 
@@ -35,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: "Run Ansys documentation style checks"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-style@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/doc-style@v8
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
-      - uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-changelog@v7
+      - uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-changelog@v8
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.PYANSYS_CI_BOT_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -57,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: doc-style
     steps:
       - name: "Run Ansys documentation building action"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-build@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/doc-build@v8
         with:
           python-version: ${{ env.MAIN_PYTHON_VERSION }}
           add-pdf-html-docs-as-assets: true
@@ -71,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: build-library
     steps:
       - name: "Deploy developers documentation"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-dev@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-dev@v8
         with:
             cname: ${{ env.DOCUMENTATION_CNAME }}
             token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -83,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: release
     steps:
       - name: "Deploy stable documentation"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-stable@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-stable@v8
         with:
           cname: ${{ env.DOCUMENTATION_CNAME }}
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -105,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
             os: macos-latest
     steps:
       - name: "Build wheelhouse and perform smoke test"
-        uses: ansys/actions/build-wheelhouse@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/build-wheelhouse@v8
         with:
           library-name: ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}
           operating-system: ${{ matrix.os }}
@@ -117,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [doc-build, smoke-tests]
     steps:
       - name: "Build library source and wheel artifacts"
-        uses: ansys/actions/build-library@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/build-library@v8
         with:
           library-name: ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}
 
@@ -129,65 +127,20 @@ jobs:
     steps:
 
       - name: "Release to the private PyPI repository"
-        uses: ansys/actions/release-pypi-private@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/release-pypi-private@v8
         with:
           library-name: ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}
           twine-username: "__token__"
           twine-token: ${{ secrets.PYANSYS_PYPI_PRIVATE_PAT }}
 
       - name: "Release to the public PyPI repository"
-        uses: ansys/actions/release-pypi-public@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/release-pypi-public@v8
         with:
           library-name: ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}
           twine-username: "__token__"
           twine-token: ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: "Release to GitHub"
-        uses: ansys/actions/release-github@v7
+        uses: ansys/actions/release-github@v8
         with:
           library-name: ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}
-
-  doc-index-dev:
-    name: "Deploy dev index docs"
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: doc-deploy-development
-    steps:
-      - name: "Deploy the latest documentation index"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-index@v7
-        with:
-          cname: ${{ env.DOCUMENTATION_CNAME }}/version/dev
-          index-name: "ansys-sphinx-theme-vdev"
-          host-url: ${{ vars.MEILISEARCH_HOST_URL }}
-          api-key: ${{ env.MEILISEARCH_API_KEY }}
-
-  doc-index-stable:
-    name: "Deploy stable docs index"
-    if: github.event_name == 'push' && contains(github.ref, 'refs/tags')
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: doc-deploy-stable
-    steps:
-      - name: "Install Git and clone project"
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: "get version of library"
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install -e .
-
-      - name: Scrape the stable documentation to PyMeilisearch
-        run: |
-          VERSION=$(python -c "from ansys_sphinx_theme import __version__; print('.'.join(__version__.split('.')[:2]))")
-          VERSION_MEILI=$(python -c "from ansys_sphinx_theme import __version__; print('-'.join(__version__.split('.')[:2]))")
-          echo "Calculated VERSION: $VERSION"
-          echo "Calculated VERSION_MEILI: $VERSION_MEILI"
-          echo "VERSION=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "VERSION_MEILI=$VERSION_MEILI" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-      - name: "Deploy the latest documentation index"
-        uses: ansys/actions/doc-deploy-index@v7
-        with:
-          cname: ${{ env.DOCUMENTATION_CNAME }}/version/${{ env.VERSION }}
-          index-name: ansys-sphinx-theme-v${{ env.VERSION_MEILI }}
-          host-url: ${{ vars.MEILISEARCH_HOST_URL }}
-          api-key: ${{ env.MEILISEARCH_API_KEY }}
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/517.fixed.md b/doc/changelog.d/517.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6cc6c0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/517.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fix(ci): update to Ansys actions v8
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8168264a..ab4e77f1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
 [project]
 # Check https://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyproject_toml.html for all available sections
 name = "ansys-sphinx-theme"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.1.1"
 description = "A theme devised by ANSYS, Inc. for Sphinx documentation."
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<4"