Yarn installs failing in GitHub Actions after updating to Node 23.0.0

[oscaralanpierce]

Description:
I have a React app that uses GitHub Actions for CI. After upgrading its Node version to 23.0.0, the dependency installation step fails saying "The remote archive doesn't match the expected checksum." I am not able to replicate these errors in my local environment.

This is set up in my .github/workflows/ci.yml file as follows:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with: fetch-depth: 0
    - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
      with:
        node-version: "23.0.0"
    - name: "install Node Modules"
      run: yarn

As soon as I changed node-version: "22.11.0" to node-version: "23.0.0", the builds started failing.

Action version:
v4

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Tools version:
Node: 23.0.0
npm: 10.9.0
yarn: 3.6.4

Repro steps:
This is an example of one of the failing builds. I made two PRs that failed. The commonalities are that Node is updated to 23.0.0 in the package.json, .tool-versions, and ci.yml files.

Expected behavior:
I expected my build to continue running, and passing, like it was until I updated Node.

Actual behavior:
yarn install fails, indicating that "The remote archive does not match the expected checksum"

[mahabaleshwars]

Hello @danascheider,
Thank you for creating this issue. We will investigate it and provide feedback as soon as we have some updates.

[priyagupta108]

Hi @danascheider 👋,
It appears there's an issue on Node's side with version 23.0.0. For more details, see nodejs/node#55414
To resolve this, use the latest version of Node 23, which is 23.2.0. Alternatively, you can specify:

uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
  node-version: '23'

This configuration ensures that the action will automatically download the latest available release for Node.js version 23.

[oscaralanpierce]

Thank you @priyagupta108, I had not seen that there was a newer version!