ci: update validate workflow versions

[MikeMcC399]

What:

Update action versions:

From	To	runs.using
actions/checkout@v2	actions/checkout@v5	node24
actions/setup-node@v2	actions/setup-node@v4	node20
codecov/codecov-action@v1	codecov/codecov-action@v5	composite
cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v2	cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v5	node24

and called dependency:

From	To
semantic-release@17	semantic-release@24

Update from Node.js 20 (Maintenance LTS) to Node.js 22 (Active LTS)

Why:

• Closes Outdated action versions in validate workflow #288. .github/workflows/validate.yml is configured to use GitHub JavaScript actions that specify the use of the end-of-life Node.js version node12.
• Relates to issue Deprecations and warnings in release job #286. When the release job of the workflow .github/workflows/validate.yml is run, the logs show warnings, including:

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The set-output command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

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[@octokit/request] "GET https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo%3Atesting-library%2Fcypress-testing-library+type%3Apr+is%3Amerged+e6ac1355982eb46508da4e2954213b7d274475a3" is deprecated. It is scheduled to be removed on Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT. See https://github.blog/changelog/2025-03-06-github-issues-projects-api-support-for-issues-advanced-search-and-more/

How:

Change the action versions defined in .github/workflows/validate.yml

Checklist:

• Documentation N/A

• Tests

• Ready to be merged

• Note that no coverage report is found. This is the same as before this PR and is an issue that would need to be investigated separately.

• Otherwise, I've tested this branch standalone as far as I can, also using semantic-release dry-run.

[MikeMcC399]

@kentcdodds

Many thanks for merging the Cypress 15 PR (#282)! You wrote:

I'm not really a maintainer anymore, but since it doesn't seem like there's anyone else I'll go ahead and merge this since it's pretty straightforward.

Does this mean that there is no maintainer for this repo these days? I went ahead and updated the CI workflow versions in this PR after I noticed that there were deprecation warnings in the logs, so hopefully either you or somebody else will be able to review and merge this PR?!

Edit:

I overlooked that there is a long list of maintainers for this repo in the npm registry, so perhaps this list should be separately reviewed so that it only contains users who are active maintainers?:

$ npm view @testing-library/cypress maintainers
[
  'testing-library-bot <[email protected]>',
  'kentcdodds <[email protected]>',
  'timdeschryver <[email protected]>',
  'patrickhulce <[email protected]>',
  'dfcook <[email protected]>',
  'gpx <[email protected]>',
  'mpeyper <[email protected]>',
  'mihar-22 <[email protected]>',
  'pago <[email protected]>',
  'cmckinstry <[email protected]>',
  'thymikee <[email protected]>',
  'brrianalexis <[email protected]>',
  'jdecroock <[email protected]>',
  'mdjastrzebski <[email protected]>',
  'eps1lon <[email protected]>',
  'phryneas <[email protected]>'
]

[kentcdodds]

Yeah, there's no active maintainer. Cypress should follow playwright's example and build these queries in as an official part of their API.

[MikeMcC399]

@kentcdodds

Yeah, there's no active maintainer. Cypress should follow playwright's example and build these queries in as an official part of their API.

I've passed your comment on, in a request to the Cypress.io team in cypress-io/cypress#32414