[CREDO23]

Summary

• actions/upload-artifact@v4 and actions/download-artifact@v4 declare Node 20, so GitHub forces them onto Node 24 and warns on every Desktop Release run. They were the only actions left on Node 20 in any workflow.
• release-local.yml, build-sdcpp.yml and build-audiocpp.yml move to upload-artifact@v7 and download-artifact@v8, the versions docker-build.yml and docker-tests.yml already use.
• Nothing these workflows pass changes meaning: uploads still zip by default, downloads are by name, and a download whose hash does not match now fails instead of warning.

Follows #2162

High-level PR Summary

This Pull Request updates GitHub Actions artifact handling (upload-artifact and download-artifact) to their latest versions across three workflow files to address Node 20 deprecation warnings. The workflows are upgraded from v4 to v7/v8 respectively, which use Node 24 instead of the deprecated Node 20. This is a maintenance update with no functional changes to the artifact upload/download behavior.

⏱️ Estimated Review Time: 5-15 minutes

💡 Review Order Suggestion

Order	File Path
1	.github/workflows/build-audiocpp.yml
2	.github/workflows/build-sdcpp.yml
3	.github/workflows/release-local.yml

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated release build workflows to use newer artifact upload and download actions. Artifact names, locations, and retention periods remain unchanged, so the change does not alter the artifacts provided or how long they are retained.

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• .github/workflows/build-audiocpp.yml
• .github/workflows/build-sdcpp.yml
• .github/workflows/release-local.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Build and release workflows now use newer GitHub Actions artifact upload and download versions. Artifact names, paths, and retention settings remain unchanged where specified.

Changes

Build and release artifacts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build artifact uploads .github/workflows/build-audiocpp.yml, .github/workflows/build-sdcpp.yml	Both build workflows now use actions/upload-artifact@v7.
Release artifact transfers .github/workflows/release-local.yml	The release workflow now uses actions/download-artifact@v8 for build artifacts and actions/upload-artifact@v7 for installers.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 19300

This updates CI and release workflows to artifact actions that run on Node 24. No user-facing behavior changes, and the merge risk is minimal.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 19300

The changed surface does not map to a changed system, dependency edge, entrypoint, or external dependency.

Changed systems: None identified.

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/build-audiocpp.yml: The artifact upload step now uses actions/upload-artifact@v7 instead of @v4.
• observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/build-sdcpp.yml: The artifact upload step now uses actions/upload-artifact@v7 instead of @v4.
• observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/release-local.yml: The audio.cpp artifact download step now uses actions/download-artifact@v8 instead of @v4.
• observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/release-local.yml: The sd.cpp artifact download step now uses actions/download-artifact@v8 instead of @v4.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: updating the artifact actions so they run on Node 24.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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