chore(CI): bump actions off the deprecated Node 20 runtime (#26720)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/actions/linux-build/action.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ runs:
     # walk back from the most-recent cache on this branch to progressively
     # broader fallbacks (branch -> pch variant -> modules variant -> compiler).
     - name: Cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v6
       with:
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/var/ccache
         key: ccache:${{ runner.os }}:${{ inputs.CC }}_${{ inputs.CXX }}:${{ inputs.modules }}:pch=${{ inputs.pch }}:${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.run_id }}

.github/workflows/codestyle.yml

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ jobs:
     name: C++
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - name: Setup python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v7
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
       - name: AzerothCore codestyle

.github/workflows/core-build-nopch.yml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}-nopch
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - uses: ./.github/actions/linux-build
         with:
           CC: ${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}

.github/workflows/core-build-pch.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}-pch
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - uses: ./.github/actions/linux-build
         with:
           CC: ${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}

.github/workflows/core_modules_build.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}-nopch-modules
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         # This script installs a general list of modules to compile with
         # azerothcore. This is useful for ensuring that module compilation
         # functionality works.

.github/workflows/docker_build.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
           sudo rm -rf /opt/ghc
           sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY"
 
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       # The containers created in this workflow are used by
       # acore-docker, which has a dependency on mod-ale.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       # build them locally (such as with `docker compose build`)
       - name: Download Eluna
         if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && github.ref_name == 'master'
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           repository: azerothcore/mod-ale
           path: modules/mod-ale

.github/workflows/import_pending.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions: write-all
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
           # If we're fetching all the history in a later step it makes sense to

.github/workflows/macos_build.yml

@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ jobs:
       && !github.event.pull_request.draft
       && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-build') || github.event.label.name == 'run-build')
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - name: Cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v6
         with:
           path: ~/Library/Caches/ccache
           # Unique per run so the cache is re-saved every run instead of

.github/workflows/pr_labeler.yml

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ jobs:
     permissions: write-all
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           persist-credentials: true
-      - uses: actions/labeler@v5
+      - uses: actions/labeler@v7
         with:
           repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           configuration-path: .github/labeler.yml

.github/workflows/sql-codestyle.yml

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ jobs:
     name: SQL
     if: github.repository == 'azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk' && !github.event.pull_request.draft
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - name: Setup python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v7
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
       - name: AzerothCore codestyle

.github/workflows/tools_build.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       && !github.event.pull_request.draft
       && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-build') || github.event.label.name == 'run-build')
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - uses: ./.github/actions/linux-build
         with:
           CC: ${{ matrix.compiler.CC }}

.github/workflows/windows_build.yml

@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ jobs:
       && !github.event.pull_request.draft
       && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-build') || github.event.label.name == 'run-build')
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - name: ccache
         uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2.13
       # Cache the fetched Boost + MySQL client so we don't re-download ~350 MB
       # and re-run the Boost installer on every run. The Test-Path guards in
       # "Configure OS" short-circuit the install work when these are restored.
       - name: Cache Boost & MySQL
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        uses: actions/cache@v6
         with:
           path: |
             C:\local\boost_1_87_0