diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_gh.yml b/.github/workflows/release_gh.yml
index b8aa8d6..9acec60 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_gh.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_gh.yml
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ jobs:
       uses: adafruit/workflows-circuitpython-libs/release-gh@main
       with:
         github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        upload-url: ${{ github.event.release.upload_url }}
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 0e5fccc..70ade69 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -4,21 +4,21 @@
 
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/python/black
-    rev: 22.3.0
+    rev: 23.3.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool
-    rev: v0.14.0
+    rev: v1.1.2
     hooks:
       - id: reuse
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.2.0
+    rev: v4.4.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: trailing-whitespace
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pylint
-    rev: v2.15.5
+    rev: v2.17.4
     hooks:
       - id: pylint
         name: pylint (library code)
diff --git a/adafruit_fona/adafruit_fona_socket.py b/adafruit_fona/adafruit_fona_socket.py
index 041d626..c20c518 100644
--- a/adafruit_fona/adafruit_fona_socket.py
+++ b/adafruit_fona/adafruit_fona_socket.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ def htons(x: int) -> int:
 # keep track of sockets we allocate
 SOCKETS = []
 
+
 # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments, unused-argument
 def getaddrinfo(host, port: int, family=0, socktype=0, proto=0, flags=0):
     """Translate the host/port argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ def settimeout(self, value: int) -> None:
         :param int value: Socket read timeout, in seconds.
         """
         if value < 0:
-            raise Exception("Timeout period should be non-negative.")
+            raise ValueError("Timeout period should be non-negative.")
         self._timeout = value
 
     def gettimeout(self) -> int: