[bug] Artifacts are not expiring

[CDTR-MattConroy]

What happened?

1 of 2 artifacts did not expire properly.
This below workflow completed yesterday, and has correctly expired artifact themes-deploy, but not release-deploy. Both are set to a retention-days of 1 and have been working correctly until recently.

See also, the following snippets to upload artifacts from 2 different jobs in the same workflow:

      - name: Upload artifacts to GitHub
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4.3.1
        with:
          name: themes-deploy
          path: .deploy/**/*.zip
          if-no-files-found: error
          retention-days: 1

      - name: Upload artifacts to GitHub
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4.3.1
        with:
          name: release-deploy
          path: .deploy/*.zip
          if-no-files-found: error
          retention-days: 1

What did you expect to happen?

Uploading an artifact with retention-days set should expire the artifact after the set time.

How can we reproduce it?

Presumably creating a job with the same snippets, but as they are practically identical, exact repro step are unknown

Anything else we need to know?

No response

What version of the action are you using?

v4.3.1

What are your runner environments?

self-hosted

Are you on GitHub Enterprise Server? If so, what version?

No response

[yacaovsnc]

👋🏼 @CDTR-MattConroy could you please share the workflow run url so I can take a look?

[CDTR-MattConroy]

Hi, it's on my company's private repository unfortunately. And I've since manually deleted the artifacts to avoid using too much storage.

[yacaovsnc]

Okay, thanks. Please let me know if this happens again. It would be great if you could let me know the id of the artifact when it happens, you can find out the id if from the artifact link:

[CDTR-MattConroy]

I've had this happen again, here is the artifact ID pulled from the URL 2564623117.

[yacaovsnc]

It looks like theme-deploy is created by a workflow job run that completed on 2025-02-10T13:10:06Z and release-deploy is created by another workflow job run that is completed on 2025-02-10T13:28:31Z.

The screenshot is posted on

so it seems release-deploy should expire in about 15 minutes or so.