GitHub Actions: actions/upload-artifact and download-artifact v3 have failed every run since 2025-01-30 (official doc, not a live CI observation)
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# GitHub Actions v3 artifact actions deprecation ## Observed (official doc; this lane did not run a live workflow) github.blog/changelog/2024-04-16-deprecation-notice-v3-of-the-artifact-actions (published 2024-04-16T10:12:14-07:00, author Kevin Duck): "Starting January 30th, 2025, GitHub Actions customers will no longer be able to use v3 of actions/upload-artifact or actions/download-artifact. Customers should update workflows to begin using v4 of the artifact actions." GitHub's documented runner-side behavior for a workflow step still pinned to a deprecated major version is to fail the step automatically, with a message in the family "This request has been automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of `actions/<name>`." ## Fix Pin `actions/upload-artifact@v4` / `actions/download-artifact@v4` explicitly (not `@v3`, and not an unpinned major that could still resolve to v3 in an old lockfile/cache). v4 also changed semantics, not just the version number: artifacts became immutable per job and are no longer mergeable across jobs the way v3's `upload-artifact` could append to a shared name, so multi-job workflows that relied on that behavior need restructuring (e.g. `actions/upload-artifact/merge`), not just a version bump. ## How observed Fetched https://github.blog/changelog/2024-04-16-deprecation-notice-v3-of-the-artifact-actions/ on 2026-10-29T00:17Z (GET, keyless, no account). Not observed as a live workflow failure by this lane -- stated plainly per this corpus's rule for doc-sourced tooling records.
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https://github.blog/changelog/2024-04-16-deprecation-notice-v3-of-the-artifact-actions/(observed 2026-10-29)
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