upgrading CI cache and chechout versions in GitHub actions files (#597)

* upgrading CI

* more upgrades

.github/workflows/Intel.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 # Use custom shell with -l so .bash_profile is sourced which loads intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
 # without having to do it in manually every step
 defaults:

.github/workflows/Linux_options.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   Linux_options:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/Linux_shared.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   Linux_shared:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/Linux_versions.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   Linux_versions:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/MacOS.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   MacOS:
     runs-on: macos-latest

.github/workflows/Spack.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   # This job builds with Spack using every combination of variants and runs the CTest suite each time
   Spack:

.github/workflows/developer.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   developer:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         sudo apt-get install libpng-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev doxygen gcovr valgrind
 
     - name: checkout-bacio
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         repository: NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-bacio
         path: bacio
@@ -49,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
         make install
 
     - name: checkout-w3emc
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         repository: NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-w3emc
         path: w3emc
@@ -66,14 +71,14 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: cache-jasper
       id: cache-jasper
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ~/Jasper
         key: jasper-${{ runner.os }}-4.0.0
 
     - name: checkout-jasper
       if: steps.cache-jasper.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         repository: jasper-software/jasper
         path: jasper
@@ -89,13 +94,13 @@ jobs:
         make install
 
     - name: checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         path: g2
 
     - name: cache-data
       id: cache-data
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ~/data
         key: data-developer-1

.github/workflows/grib_utils.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ on:
     branches:
     - develop
 
+# Cancel in-progress workflows when pushing to a branch
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   grib_utils:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest