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[BUG]: DownloadBuildArtifacts@1 warning, Please use Download Build Artifact task for downloading UNC type artifact #19829

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Task name

DownloadBuildArtifacts

Task version

1.220.0

Issue Description

We noticed that we were using DownloadBuildArtifacts@0 while a @1 version was available. Upgrading, while doing no other changes, lead to the warning:
Please use Download Build Artifact task for downloading UNC type artifact. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-build-artifacts?view=azure-devops

The warning message is a bit strange as we are in fact using the task mentioned and UNC type artifacts!?

Artifact was uploaded using PublishBuildArtifacts@1 which seems to match DownloadBuildArtifacts and no warning was emitted before updating to DownloadBuildArtifacts@1.

We are using Azure DevOps Server so we cannot use PublishPipelineArtifacts/DownloadPipelineArtifacts, but it would be nice to know why on-prem is kept on these older and less optimized tasks. There seems to be few changes between @0 and @1 so I guess that we could revert the change, but wonder if the @0 would be deprecated at some point.

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

  • Self-Hosted
  • Microsoft Hosted
  • VMSS Pool
  • Container

Azure DevOps Server type

Azure DevOps Server (Please specify exact version in the textbox below)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Update 1

Operation system

Windows Server 2019

Relevant log output

Starting: Download Artifacts: DevResults
==============================================================================
Task         : Download build artifacts
Description  : Download files that were saved as artifacts of a completed build
Version      : 1.220.0
Author       : Microsoft Corporation
Help         : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-build-artifacts
==============================================================================
Download from the specified build: #622906
Download artifact to: D:\Build\Agent-01\_work\228\a
##[warning]Please use Download Build Artifact task for downloading UNC type artifact. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-build-artifacts?view=azure-devops
Using default max parallelism.
Max dedup parallelism: 192
Hashtype: Dedup64K
Minimatch patterns: [\\server.com\data\xxx\yyy\zzz\**]
Pattern: **
Minimatch patterns: [**]
Applying include pattern against original list.
9 matches
9 final results
Copy file '\\server.com\data\xxx\yyy\zzz\DevResults\file.xml' to 'D:\Build\Agent-01\_work\228\a\DevResults\file.xml'

...

Downloading artifact finished.
Finishing: Download Artifacts: DevResults

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