Deprecation warnings in Actions

[MikeMcC399]

There are several deprecation warnings in the logs on https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/actions, for example in https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/actions/runs/3321051924

"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/setup-node, richardsimko/update-tag, softprops/action-gh-release, actions/checkout"

"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/"

If left unadressed they may lead to workflow failures in the future.

[brianebeling]

Thank you @MikeMcC399

I addressed the issue similar to how we did it in the cwa-website repo already. Let me know if you see anything concerning, but that should fix the issue long term.

[mlenkeit]

@MikeMcC399 thanks for spotting the deprecation warnings!

I'm a bit surprised to see them though. The workflows are already using Node.js 16, see e.g. https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/actions/runs/3321051924/jobs/5488178995#step:3:7.

Same applies to set-output - as far as I can tell, we are not using this feature in any of the workflows.

Anyway, I'll take a look at #127.

[MikeMcC399]

@mlenkeit

This is about old versions of actions which call up Node.js 12 / set-output, so these calls are hidden.

See the error message, which says:

"Please update the following actions to use Node.js 16: actions/checkout, actions/setup-node, richardsimko/update-tag, softprops/action-gh-release, actions/checkout".

[MikeMcC399]

• See also https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release/issues/249. You may need to look for alternatives to softprops/action-gh-release if this action is not updated by its maintainer(s).

Edit: This will not break as fast as I originally thought. I suggest to continue to monitor the deprecation warnings.

[MikeMcC399]

softprops/action-gh-release has been updated to v0.1.15. v1 is also tagged to the commit of v0.1.15 so there is no change needed in .github/workflows/release.yml for softprops/action-gh-release in the following:

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/blob/db3bae496808c9c3b6e00fa4b7a508a1d4901f1b/.github/workflows/release.yml#L47-L54

[MikeMcC399]

@mlenkeit

I was a bit confused about why some of the deprecation warnings are still showing.

You might need to provide the release/3.5.x branch to the fork https://github.com/service-tip-git/cwa-app-ccl.

The issue with the action richardsimko/update-tag@v1 should be fixed now and should not show up in the log for ci.yml the next time it is run.

[MikeMcC399]

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/actions/runs/3631704540 looks fine now which is the latest action log in https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ccl/actions?query=branch%3Arelease%2F3.5.x. So the deprecation issue is fixed.