Bump various versions in actions (#2194)

Bumps various versions in actions, as well as ensuring consistency
across workflows wrt versions used. One of the key reasons is ensuring
that we're up to date and consistent (previously having used 22.04 and
24.04), also since 3.11 is EOL.

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   buildAndDeploy:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.11
+          python-version: 3.12
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
         if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
         with:
-          packages_dir: ./photon-lib/py/dist/
+          packages-dir: ./photon-lib/py/dist/
 
     permissions:
       id-token: write  # IMPORTANT: this permission is mandatory for trusted publishing