diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5a40c9c6f4..1e906a1d36 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check copyright year
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }} && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
         run: |
-          excluded_files="config.yaml"
+          excluded_files="config.yaml|config.nims|beacon_chain.nimble"
           excluded_extensions="ans|bin|cfg|yml|json|json\\.template|md|png|service|ssz|txt|lock|nix|gitignore|envrc"
 
           current_year=$(date +"%Y")
diff --git a/beacon_chain.nimble b/beacon_chain.nimble
index af2044ef27..2a3bba39d3 100644
--- a/beacon_chain.nimble
+++ b/beacon_chain.nimble
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 mode = ScriptMode.Verbose
 
-version       = "1.4.2"
+version       = "24.12.0"
 author        = "Status Research & Development GmbH"
 description   = "The Nimbus beacon chain node is a highly efficient Ethereum 2.0 client"
 license       = "MIT or Apache License 2.0"
@@ -45,13 +45,15 @@ requires(
   "unittest2",
   "web3",
   "zlib",
+  "toml_serialization",
+  "https://github.com/status-im/nim-kzg4844.git",
   "zxcvbn"
 )
 
 requires "https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-security-resources.git"
 
 import std/tables
-let namedBin = {
+namedBin = {
   "beacon_chain/nimbus_beacon_node": "nimbus_beacon_node",
   "beacon_chain/nimbus_validator_client": "nimbus_validator_client",
   "ncli/ncli": "ncli",
diff --git a/config.nims b/config.nims
index f523d20d9a..1928e12f21 100644
--- a/config.nims
+++ b/config.nims
@@ -11,13 +11,9 @@ import std/strutils
 
 const currentDir = currentSourcePath()[0 .. ^(len("config.nims") + 1)]
 
-if getEnv("NIMBUS_BUILD_SYSTEM") == "yes" and
-   # BEWARE
-   # In Nim 1.6, config files are evaluated with a working directory
-   # matching where the Nim command was invocated. This means that we
-   # must do all file existance checks with full absolute paths:
-   system.fileExists(currentDir & "nimbus-build-system.paths"):
-  include "nimbus-build-system.paths"
+when withDir(thisDir(), system.fileExists("nimbus-build-system.paths")):
+  if getEnv("NIMBUS_BUILD_SYSTEM") == "yes":
+    include "nimbus-build-system.paths"
 
 const nimCachePathOverride {.strdefine.} = ""
 when nimCachePathOverride == "":