diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 53713e7480a..07622bee96b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ jobs:
           echo "zipSha=$(shasum -a 256 op-besu*.zip)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "tarSha=$(shasum -a 256 op-besu*.tar.gz)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
       - name: upload tarball
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3
         with:
           path: 'build/distributions/op-besu*.tar.gz'
           name: op-besu-${{ github.event.release.name }}.tar.gz
           compression-level: 0
       - name: upload zipfile
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@5d5d22a31266ced268874388b861e4b58bb5c2f3
         with:
           path: 'build/distributions/op-besu*.zip'
           name: op-besu-${{ github.event.release.name }}.zip
@@ -64,9 +64,8 @@ jobs:
           distribution: temurin
           java-version: 21
       - name: Download zip
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@eaceaf801fd36c7dee90939fad912460b18a1ffe
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
-          pattern: op-besu-*.zip
           merge-multiple: true
       - name: test Besu
         run: |
@@ -297,6 +296,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           body: |
             ${{ steps.github_release.outputs.changelog }}
+            
             `docker pull ${{env.registry}}/${{github.repository}}:${{github.event.release.name}}`
           files: |
             ${{ github.workspace }}/distributions/**