With the recent improvements made to the cache action, we'll be releasing a V2 version of this action.

What's New

• Added support for multiple paths (Cache multiple paths #16), glob patterns, and single file caches (Cache single file #33)
• Increased performance and improved cache sizes using zstd for compression (Use zstd instead of gzip #184). (Off for windows-latest hosted runner)
• Allowed caching for all events with a ref (Allow using the cache for other than push and pull_request events #63)
  • See Events that trigger workflows for info on which events do not have a GITHUB_REF
• Created the @actions/cache npm package to allow other actions to utilize caching (Can this module be used from other JavaScript actions? #55)
• Added a best-effort step to delete the archive after extraction to reduces storage space (Attempt to delete the archive after extraction #209).

To Do

• Update README to include a "What's New" section and info about upgrading to v2
• Update examples to reference v2 and use multiple paths if possible
• Update the help docs (Caching dependencies to speed up workflows to reference v2 (Tracked via an internal issue
• Update the action.yml description for path to mention glob, multipath, and single file support. This should link to @actions/glob for glob pattern documentation
• Update the toolkit cache package README to include a link to the cache action as example usage.
• Change log https://github.com/github/releases/issues/835