Download a Build Artifact

Version updated for https://github.com/actions/download-artifact to version v8.0.0.

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Action Type

This is a Node action using Node version 24.

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Action Summary

The @actions/download-artifact GitHub Action is designed to automate the retrieval of artifacts generated in GitHub Actions workflows. It simplifies downloading single or multiple artifacts, supports filtering, decompressing, and managing artifacts from different workflow runs or repositories. By providing streamlined access to workflow artifacts, it enhances CI/CD pipeline efficiency and addresses tasks such as artifact management and integrity verification.

Release notes

v8 - What’s new

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 false.

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: https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/compare/v7...v8.0.0