Cache action

This action allows caching dependencies and build outputs to improve workflow execution time.

Two other actions are available in addition to the primary cache action:

• Restore action
• Save action

Documentation

See "Caching dependencies to speed up workflows".

What's New

v3

• Added support for caching in GHES 3.5+.
• Fixed download issue for files > 2GB during restore.
• Updated the minimum runner version support from node 12 -> node 16.
• Fixed avoiding empty cache save when no files are available for caching.
• Fixed tar creation error while trying to create tar with path as ~/ home folder on ubuntu-latest.
• Fixed zstd failing on amazon linux 2.0 runners.
• Fixed cache not working with github workspace directory or current directory.
• Fixed the download stuck problem by introducing a timeout of 1 hour for cache downloads.
• Fix zstd not working for windows on gnu tar in issues.
• Allowing users to provide a custom timeout as input for aborting download of a cache segment using an environment variable SEGMENT_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_MINS. Default is 10 minutes.
• New actions are available for granular control over caches - restore and save.
• Support cross-os caching as an opt-in feature. See Cross OS caching for more info.
• Added option to fail job on cache miss. See Exit workflow on cache miss for more info.
• Fix zstd not being used after zstd version upgrade to 1.5.4 on hosted runners
• Added option to lookup cache without downloading it.
• Reduced segment size to 128MB and segment timeout to 10 minutes to fail fast in case the cache download is stuck.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License