v25.2.1
Update actions/download-artifact action to v8
Notable changes
- Support for CJK characters in the artifact name by @danwkennedy in #471
- Add a regression test for artifact name + content-type mismatches by @danwkennedy in #472
- Don't attempt to un-zip non-zipped downloads by @danwkennedy in #460
- Add a setting to specify what to do on hash mismatch and default it to
errorby @danwkennedy in #461
actions/download-artifact (actions/download-artifact)
v8.0.1
What's Changed
- Support for CJK characters in the artifact name by @danwkennedy in #471
- Add a regression test for artifact name + content-type mismatches by @danwkennedy in #472
Full Changelog: actions/download-artifact@v8...v8.0.1
v8.0.0
v8 - What's new
[!IMPORTANT]
actions/download-artifact@v8 has been migrated to an ESM module. This should be transparent to the caller but forks might need to make significant changes.
[!IMPORTANT]
Hash mismatches will now error by default. Users can override this behavior with a setting change (see below).
Direct downloads
To support direct uploads in actions/upload-artifact, the action will no longer attempt to unzip all downloaded files. Instead, the action checks the Content-Type header ahead of unzipping and skips non-zipped files. Callers wishing to download a zipped file as-is can also set the new skip-decompress parameter to true.
Enforced checks (breaking)
A previous release introduced digest checks on the download. If a download hash didn't match the expected hash from the server, the action would log a warning. Callers can now configure the behavior on mismatch with the digest-mismatch parameter. To be secure by default, we are now defaulting the behavior to error which will fail the workflow run.
ESM
To support new versions of the @actions/* packages, we've upgraded the package to ESM.
What's Changed
- Don't attempt to un-zip non-zipped downloads by @danwkennedy in #460
- Add a setting to specify what to do on hash mismatch and default it to
errorby @danwkennedy in #461
Full Changelog: actions/download-artifact@v7...v8.0.0
v8
List of commits
cafe078 (Update actions/download-artifact action to v8, 2026-07-27)