ci: upgrade GitHub Actions for Node.js 24 compatibility (#143)

Upgrades actions to versions compatible with the Node.js 24 runtime:
- actions/checkout: → v6
- actions/upload-artifact: → v6
- actions/download-artifact: → v7
- actions/github-script: → v8
- actions/setup-python: → v6

Mirrors: NVIDIA/Megatron-LM@1d5e68b

Signed-off-by: oliver könig <okoenig@nvidia.com>

Author: ko3n1g

.github/actions/test-template/action.yml

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ runs:
         docker pull nemoci.azurecr.io/${{ inputs.image }}:${{ github.run_id }}
 
     - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         path: Emerging-Optimizers
 
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ runs:
         docker exec -t nemo_container_${{ github.run_id }} coverage report -i
 
     - name: Upload artifacts
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
       if: ${{ steps.check.outputs.coverage_report != 'none' }}
       with:
         name: ${{ steps.check.outputs.coverage_report }}

.github/workflows/_build_container.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       cache-from: ${{ steps.cache-from.outputs.LAST_PRS }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Get last merged PR
         id: cache-from

.github/workflows/cicd-approve-test-queue.yml

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ jobs:
     environment: main
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.12"
 

.github/workflows/cicd-main.yml

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ jobs:
       && !cancelled()
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: main
         uses: ./.github/actions/test-template
         with:
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload Test Results
         if: always()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: test-results-${{ matrix.script }}
           path: test-results/**/*.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ jobs:
       && !cancelled()
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: main
         uses: ./.github/actions/test-template
         with:
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload Test Results
         if: always()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: test-results-L1_Tests_GPU
           path: test-results/**/*.xml
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Download Test Results
         continue-on-error: true
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           pattern: test-results-L0_*
           merge-multiple: true
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Download Test Results
         continue-on-error: true
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           pattern: test-results-L1_*
           merge-multiple: true
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions: write-all
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Get workflow result
         id: result
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "code=$RESULT" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - name: Checkout for GH CLI
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Remove label if not cancelled
         if: |
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ jobs:
     environment: nemo-ci
     steps:
       - name: Generate fake coverage report
-        uses: actions/github-script@v6
+        uses: actions/github-script@v8
         with:
           github-token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
           script: |
@@ -348,10 +348,10 @@ jobs:
         flag: [unit-test]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Download coverage reports of current branch
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           pattern: coverage-${{ matrix.flag }}-*
 
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ jobs:
           flags: ${{ matrix.flag }}
 
       - name: Upload artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: coverage-${{ matrix.flag }}-aggregated
           path: |

.github/workflows/code-linting.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           submodules: 'recursive'