Problem

As mentioned in the GitHub blog post below, Actions is currently transitioning from Node 16 to Node 20.

• https://github.blog/changelog/2023-09-22-github-actions-transitioning-from-node-16-to-node-20/

However, Node 20 seems to be incompatible with CentOS 7, which is listed as a compatible OS for self-hosted runners below:

• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#linux

This incompatibility seems to stem from the fact that NodeJS version 20 supports glibc >=2.28 (as seen in the link below), but CentOS 7 only has glibc==2.17.

• https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v20.0.0/BUILDING.md#platform-list

The consequence of this is that composite actions that have been updated to use Node 20 no longer work with CentOS 7 host machines or containers.

Here is an example of the error message that results from trying to run a composite action using Node 20 on a CentOS 7 container:

• https://github.com/rapidsai/dask-cuda/actions/runs/6402970861/job/17380789311?pr=1255#step:19:8

As a result of this incompatibility, we've had to intentionally downgrade our composite actions to a version that uses Node 16 so that our workflows continue to work.

To Reproduce

Run the following workflow to exhibit the error message

name: centos7

on:
  push:

jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: centos:7
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: echo "hello, world"

Expected behavior

Since the documentation below states that self-hosted runners support CentOS 7, I would expect the above workflow to run to completion without any errors

• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#linux

Runner Version and Platform

Ubuntu 22.04, runner version 2.309.0