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chore(deps): bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 - #489

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Bumps actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8.

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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

Full Changelog: actions/download-artifact@v7...v8.0.0

Commits
  • 9000827 Merge pull request #493 from actions/tunc-d-prepare-download-v8-0-2
  • e455989 Prepare download-artifact v8.0.2
  • a00b90c Merge pull request #492 from actions/tunc-d-download-artifact-package-bump
  • 29bb7ce Update @​actions/artifact to 6.3.1
  • 484a0b5 Update the readme (#473)
  • 3e5f45b Add regression tests for CJK characters (#471)
  • e6d03f6 Add a regression test for artifact name + content-type mismatches (#472)
  • 70fc10c Merge pull request #461 from actions/danwkennedy/digest-mismatch-behavior
  • f258da9 Add change docs
  • ccc058e Fix linting issues
  • Additional commits viewable in compare view


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Low Risk
Dependency-only CI change; v8 may fail deploys on artifact digest mismatch, but usage is unchanged aside from the version pin.

Overview
Bumps actions/download-artifact from v7 to v8 in the Hacklytics preview and main deploy jobs in .github/workflows/ci.yml. Both jobs still download the hacklytics-out artifact to sites/hacklytics2027/out before Firebase hosting deploy; only the action version changes.

v8 is stricter by default (digest/hash mismatches fail the step unless overridden) and adjusts how non-zipped artifacts are handled on download. No workflow inputs were added for digest-mismatch or skip-decompress.

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Dependency Review

The following issues were found:
  • ✅ 0 vulnerable package(s)
  • ✅ 0 package(s) with incompatible licenses
  • ✅ 0 package(s) with invalid SPDX license definitions
  • ⚠️ 1 package(s) with unknown licenses.
See the Details below.

License Issues

.github/workflows/ci.yml

PackageVersionLicenseIssue Type
actions/download-artifact8.*.*NullUnknown License

OpenSSF Scorecard

PackageVersionScoreDetails
actions/actions/download-artifact 8.*.* 🟢 5.4
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CheckScoreReason
Maintained🟢 34 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
Dangerous-Workflow🟢 10no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Binary-Artifacts🟢 10no binaries found in the repo
Code-Review🟢 10all changesets reviewed
Packaging⚠️ -1packaging workflow not detected
Token-Permissions⚠️ 0detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Pinned-Dependencies⚠️ 0dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
CII-Best-Practices⚠️ 0no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Fuzzing⚠️ 0project is not fuzzed
License🟢 10license file detected
Signed-Releases⚠️ -1no releases found
Security-Policy🟢 9security policy file detected
SAST🟢 10SAST tool is run on all commits
Branch-Protection⚠️ 0branch protection not enabled on development/release branches

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@dependabot rebase

Bumps [actions/download-artifact](https://github.com/actions/download-artifact) from 7 to 8.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/releases)
- [Commits](actions/download-artifact@v7...v8)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: actions/download-artifact
  dependency-version: '8'
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
...

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