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Node 8 installs different versions depending on system

See original GitHub issue

When setting up Node with the next strategy matrix and action from v1 or master:

strategy:
      matrix:
        node_version: [8, 10, 12]
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macOS-latest]

# ...

    - name: Use Node ${{ matrix.node_version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@master
      with:
        version: ${{ matrix.node_version }}

With Node 10 and 12, it works like a charm, installing 10.16.2 and 12.8.0 respectively, using 10 or '10.x' and 12 or '12.x', but with Node 8 using 8 or 8.x it will not install the latest version in Windows. I made a table with the versions installed depending on the base system and the value in the node_version array specified:

System specified	Node specified	Node installed
ubuntu-latest	8	8.16.0
macOS-latest	8	8.16.0
windows-latest	8	8.10.0
ubuntu-latest	8.x	8.16.0
macOS-latest	8.x	8.16.0
windows-latest	8.x	8.10.0
ubuntu-latest	8.16	8.16.0
macOS-latest	8.16	8.16.0
windows-latest	8.16	8.16.0

Windows is installing 8.10 when Ubuntu and MacOS install 8.16. If we force 8.16 it will install it, but this is not scaling.

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:23 (10 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

XhmikosRcommented, Oct 16, 2019

But this is only observed with 8.x on Windows. Every other OS and Node.js version follows the latest release, which IMO is what I’d expect.

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XhmikosRcommented, Oct 8, 2019

@damccorm can we get some movement on this? It’s a pretty important issue.

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