# What changed in @actions/artifact

> 5 changes in @actions/artifact 6 from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories. Each one cited. Sources checked 2026-10-24. HTML: https://unstale.sh/npm/@actions/artifact/

To see which of these apply to a repository, run `npx @unstale/cli init` in it.

## @actions/artifact 6

### Behavior and default changes

- Accumulated retry sleep is limited to 120 seconds. (6.3.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/cb65d8f6894c0d38ad78c4d3c54b9d1ef6e305f7/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md#630)
- The initial fallback retry wait increases to 8 seconds. (6.3.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/cb65d8f6894c0d38ad78c4d3c54b9d1ef6e305f7/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md#630)

### Fixes and other changes

- Declared as a production dependency so the package can be imported in clean consumers without protobuf code-generation tooling. (6.3.1) — [release notes](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/cb65d8f6894c0d38ad78c4d3c54b9d1ef6e305f7/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md#631)
- Positive integer Retry-After seconds on HTTP 429 responses are honored even when the response body is not valid JSON; unsupported or missing values use exponential backoff. (6.3.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/cb65d8f6894c0d38ad78c4d3c54b9d1ef6e305f7/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md#630)
- Supports the RFC 5987 filename* field in the content-disposition header, allowing files and artifacts with Chinese/Japanese/Korean and other characters in their names to download correctly. (6.2.1) — [release notes](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/cb65d8f6894c0d38ad78c4d3c54b9d1ef6e305f7/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md#621)