Deprecation Warning Output from GitHub Actions

[mcichoski]

Behaviour

Warning: The 'save-state' command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

Warning: The 'set-output' command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

As per https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

Steps to reproduce this Issue

1. use actions/checkout@v3 to checkout a repository

[cyhcyh]

Behaviour

Warning: The 'save-state' command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

Warning: The 'set-output' command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

As per https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

Steps to reproduce this Issue

1. use actions/checkout@v3 to checkout a repository

I'm using github pages. The github-pages[bot] use actions/checkout@v2 automatically, I don't know how to change that.

[rentziass]

Hi @cyhcyh, this is expected as we're beginning to deprecate those workflow and started updating actions with a fix. We're back-porting that fix to checkout@v2 shortly to solve this for people that don't have control over the version of checkout that is being used, I'll report here as soon as that's done!

[cyhcyh]

Hi @cyhcyh, this is expected as we're beginning to deprecate those workflow and started updating actions with a fix. We're back-porting that fix to checkout@v2 shortly to solve this for people that don't have control over the version of checkout that is being used, I'll report here as soon as that's done!

That's great! Thank you!

[rentziass]

checkout@v2 is now pointing to v2.5.0 and warnings about workflow commands being deprecated should not happen anymore 🎉 Please do let me know if that is not the case!

[davetapley]

@rentziass still seeing this:

Node.js 12 actions are deprecated. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-22-github-actions-all-actions-will-begin-running-on-node16-instead-of-node12/. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 16: actions/checkout, actions/checkout, actions/upload-artifact, actions/checkout, actions/checkout

I even tried being explicit with uses: actions/[email protected], but seeing the same. Any ideas? 🤔

[TWiStErRob]

@davetapley you need to use 3+ for that: https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases/tag/v3.0.0

2.5.0 was just a maintenance release for those who are still on v2 as far as I understand it.

[TWiStErRob]

As I understand this is now fixed for both

• v2 https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/962 (released 2.5.0)
• v3 https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/939 (released 3.1.0)

@rentziass close as completed?

[rentziass]

That's correct, thanks for the help @TWiStErRob! Closing now.

[theofficialgman]

@rentziass I'm still getting this warning from action/checkout v2.5.0

[TWiStErRob]

@theofficialgman I think you're better off creating a new issue with detail (screenshot, link, yml, logs).

[jespertheend]

I can confirm v2.5.0 still seems to trigger the deprecation warning. Upgrading to v3.1.0 fixed it for me though.

[annaesvensson]

I am seeing the same issue in our repository. With checkout@v2 the deprecation warnings are there, after switching to checkout@v3 the warnings are gone. Upgrading to v3 fixed it for us.

[MikeMcC399]

@davetapley

There are two different deprecation warning messages.

The original one from this issue was about save-state and set-output which @rentziass wrote is fixed for actions/checkout@v2 and actions/checkout@v3.

The other deprecation warning message "Node.js 12 actions are deprecated." mentioned by @davetapley is not fixed in actions/checkout@v2.

actions/checkout@v2 runs under node12 as can be seen by https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/e2f20e631ae6d7dd3b768f56a5d2af784dd54791/action.yml#L74-L77 pointed to by https://github.com/actions/checkout/tree/v2

So, if you want to stop the "Node.js 12 actions are deprecated." warning from appearing, you need to update to actions/checkout@v3. @annaesvensson already wrote about this. The above is just an explanation for it.

[tal-lederman-dy]

I'm using actions/[email protected], but still getting the same warning: Warning: The `save-state` command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

[MikeMcC399]

@tal-lederman-dy

I'm using actions/[email protected], but still getting the same warning

Since this issue was already resolved in actions/checkout@v3 it is mostly likely that your problem has another origin. This could be from a step in the workflow or from calling another GitHub action.

I suggest to re-run your action with ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG set true (see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/monitoring-and-troubleshooting-workflows/enabling-debug-logging) to get a better idea about where the warning might be coming from.

Here is an example log output from using an older version of another action:

::set-output name=dashboardUrl::
Warning: The `set-output` command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/``