@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The V3 edition of the action offers:
- Proxy support
- Check latest version
- Caching packages dependencies
- stable and olstable aliases
- stable and oldstable aliases
- Bug Fixes (including issues around version matching and semver)
The action will first check the local cache for a version match. If a version is not found locally, it will pull it from the `main` branch of the [go-versions](https://github.com/actions/go-versions/blob/main/versions-manifest.json) repository. On miss or failure, it will fall back to downloading directly from [go dist](https://storage.googleapis.com/golang). To change the default behavior, please use the [check-latest input](#check-latest-version).
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## Using stable/oldstable aliases
Given the fact that Go doesn't use semver syntax ranges, and that many Go projects want to run tests based on `stable` and `oldstable` aliases, these aliases are introduced in the action as possible values of the input `go-version`. When alias `stable` is provided, and `check-latest` input is set to `true` action will get the latest stable version from the [`go-versions`](https://github.com/actions/go-versions/blob/main/versions-manifest.json) repository manifest. When `check-latest` is not provided, or set to false, the action will resolve `stable` as the most recent present version from the runners tool cache directory. In case of the `oldstable` alias, if current release is 1.19.x, action will resolve version as 1.18.x, where x is the latest patch release. The `check-latest` rules described above will apply for `oldstable` as well.
If `stable` is provided, action will get the latest stable version from the [`go-versions`](https://github.com/actions/go-versions/blob/main/versions-manifest.json) repository manifest.
If `oldstable` is provided, when current release is 1.19.x, action will resolve version as 1.18.x, where x is the latest patch release.
**Note:** using these aliases will result in same version as using corresponding minor release with `check-latest` input set to `true`