Overly frequent action major version updates

[MarcellPerger1]

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Actions Checkout

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Major version updates to Github actions like actions/checkout, actions/setup-node, actions/setup-python are IMO far too frequent, most of them semi-useless churn caused by constantly updating node versions.

For example, actions/checkout has had v5, v6, and v7 version bumps released in the last year which seems rather excessive.

And each major version update for each action requires me to go through the changelog, looks for breaking changes (which often aren't even highlighted), go through each of my projects, check that the breaking changes won't cause any problems for that project, update the version for that project.

And most of these turn out to be just trivial node version bumps which for 99% of people don't cause any problems and could either be:

• Minor version updates (since Github updates their runners anyway)
• Less frequent

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No I can't just do @latest because then breaking changes might break my workflows silently.

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