diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f0d96de64..ea2a4ab04 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 version: 2.1
 orbs:
-  codecov: codecov/codecov@1.0.5
+  codecov: codecov/codecov@4.1.0
 
 .dockersetup: &dockersetup
   docker:
@@ -594,6 +594,10 @@ jobs:
             coverage xml
       - store_artifacts:
           path: /src/coverage
+      - run:
+          # from https://github.com/codecov/codecov-circleci-orb/issues/157#issue-1692263650
+          name: Quick fix for GPG error in Codecov
+          command: mkdir -p ~/.gnupg
       - codecov/upload:
           file: /src/coverage/coverage.xml