Add production dependencies & build

v1.9.5 (#201 )
extract julia directly to tool path to maintain mtimes (#196 )
2026-02-12 19:16:54 +08:00 · 2024-01-05 13:28:51 -05:00 · 2024-01-05 13:27:42 -05:00 · 2024-01-05 12:49:05 -05:00 · 2024-01-05 12:36:56 -05:00 · 2024-01-04 07:00:10 +00:00
27 changed files with 24596 additions and 5908 deletions
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*       @julia-actions/reviewers
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+- package-ecosystem: gitsubmodule
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: monthly
+  open-pull-requests-limit: 10
+
+- package-ecosystem: 'github-actions'
+  directory: '/'
+  schedule:
+    interval: 'monthly'
+    
+- package-ecosystem: npm
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: monthly
--- a/.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
+++ b/.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+if !occursin("hostedtoolcache", Sys.BINDIR)
+    error("the wrong julia is being used: $(Sys.BINDIR)")
+end
+if VERSION >= v"1.7.0" # pkgdir was introduced here, and before then mtime wasn't a problem so just skip
+    using Pkg
+    src = pkgdir(Pkg, "src", "Pkg.jl")
+    # mtime is when it's compressed, ctime is when the file is extracted
+    if mtime(src) >= ctime(src)
+        error("source mtime ($(mtime(src))) is not earlier than ctime ($(ctime(src)))")
+    end
+end
--- a/.github/workflows/backup.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/backup.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Backup
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '5 4 * * 0'
+
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  backup:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Configure cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ${{ env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE }}
+            ~/.cache/restic
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}
+
+      - name: Install the correct Python version
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.x'
+
+      - name: Run backup action
+        uses: julia-actions/restic-action@main
+        env: # Options: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#environment-variables
+          RESTIC_REPOSITORY: b2:${{ secrets.B2_BUCKET }}:${{ github.repository }}
+          RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}
+          B2_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ secrets.B2_ACCOUNT_ID }}
+          B2_ACCOUNT_KEY: ${{ secrets.B2_ACCOUNT_KEY }}
--- a/.github/workflows/checkin.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checkin.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,22 @@
 name: "PR Checks"
 on: [pull_request, push]

+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
 jobs:
  check_pr:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      with:
+        node-version: 16

    - name: "npm ci"
      run: npm ci
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# For most projects, this workflow file will not need changing; you simply need
+# to commit it to your repository.
+#
+# You may wish to alter this file to override the set of languages analyzed,
+# or to provide custom queries or build logic.
+#
+# ******** NOTE ********
+# We have attempted to detect the languages in your repository. Please check
+# the `language` matrix defined below to confirm you have the correct set of
+# supported CodeQL languages.
+#
+name: "CodeQL"
+
+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, releases/* ]
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: [ master ]
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '32 22 * * 6'
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        language: [ 'javascript' ]
+        # CodeQL supports [ 'cpp', 'csharp', 'go', 'java', 'javascript', 'python' ]
+        # Learn more:
+        # https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code/configuring-code-scanning#changing-the-languages-that-are-analyzed
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
+      with:
+        languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+        # If you wish to specify custom queries, you can do so here or in a config file.
+        # By default, queries listed here will override any specified in a config file.
+        # Prefix the list here with "+" to use these queries and those in the config file.
+        # queries: ./path/to/local/query, your-org/your-repo/queries@main
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v3
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
--- a/.github/workflows/example-builds-defaultarch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/example-builds-defaultarch.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+name: Example builds (default arch)
+
+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ['main', 'master', 'releases/*']
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        julia-version: ['1']
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 16
+
+      - name: "Install dependencies"
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        run: |
+          npm install
+          npm run build
+          npm run pack
+
+      - name: "Set up Julia"
+        id: setup-julia
+        uses: ./
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}
+      - run: julia --version
+      - run: julia --compile=min -O0 -e 'import InteractiveUtils; InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()'
+      - name: "Check that the correct julia is used and that archive mtimes are maintained"
+        run: julia --startup-file=no --color=yes ./.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
--- a/.github/workflows/example-builds-nightly-defaultarch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/example-builds-nightly-defaultarch.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+name: Example builds (nightly, default arch)
+
+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ['main', 'master', 'releases/*']
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        julia-version: [nightly, 1.10-nightly]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 16
+
+      - name: "Install dependencies"
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        run: |
+          npm install
+          npm run build
+          npm run pack
+
+      - name: "Set up Julia (${{ matrix.julia-version }})"
+        uses: ./
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}
+      - run: julia --version
+      - run: julia --compile=min -O0 -e 'import InteractiveUtils; InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()'
+      - name: "Check that the correct julia is used and that archive mtimes are maintained"
+        run: julia --startup-file=no --color=yes ./.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
--- a/.github/workflows/example-builds-nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/example-builds-nightly.yml
@@ -1,39 +1,54 @@
 name: Example builds (nightly)

+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
 on:
  push:
+    branches: ['main', 'master', 'releases/*']
  pull_request:
  schedule:
-    - cron: '59 * * * *'
+    - cron: '37 17 * * *'

 jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
+        julia-version: [nightly, 1.10-nightly]
        julia-arch: [x64, x86]
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest]
        # 32-bit Julia binaries are not available on macOS
        exclude:
          - os: macOS-latest
            julia-arch: x86
-    
+
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
-      
-      - name: "Debugging info"
-        run: curl ifconfig.me
-      
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 16
+
      - name: "Install dependencies"
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
        run: |
          npm install
          npm run build
          npm run pack

-      - name: "Set up Julia (nightly)"
+      - name: "Set up Julia (${{ matrix.julia-version }})"
        uses: ./
        with:
-          version: nightly
+          version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}
          arch: ${{ matrix.julia-arch }}
      - run: julia --version
+      - run: julia --compile=min -O0 -e 'import InteractiveUtils; InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()'
+      - name: "Check that the correct julia is used and that archive mtimes are maintained"
+        run: julia --startup-file=no --color=yes ./.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
--- a/.github/workflows/example-builds.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/example-builds.yml
@@ -1,33 +1,54 @@
 name: Example builds

-on: [push, pull_request]
+concurrency:
+  # Skip intermediate builds: all builds except for builds on the `master`, `main`, or `release-*` branches
+  # Cancel intermediate builds: only pull request builds
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release-') || github.run_number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ['main', 'master', 'releases/*']
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:

 jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        julia-version: ['1.0.5', '1', '^1.5.0-beta1']
+        julia-version: ['1.0.5', '1.2', '^1.5.0-beta1', '1']
        julia-arch: [x64, x86]
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macOS-latest, windows-latest]
        # 32-bit Julia binaries are not available on macOS
        exclude:
          - os: macOS-latest
            julia-arch: x86
-    
+
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
+        with:
+          node-version: 16

      - name: "Install dependencies"
+        if: ${{ ! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/releases') }}
        run: |
          npm install
          npm run build
          npm run pack

      - name: "Set up Julia"
+        id: setup-julia
        uses: ./
        with:
          version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}
          arch: ${{ matrix.julia-arch }}
      - run: julia --version
+      - run: julia --compile=min -O0 -e 'import InteractiveUtils; InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()'
+      - name: "Check that the correct julia is used and that archive mtimes are maintained"
+        run: julia --startup-file=no --color=yes ./.github/scripts/common-tests.jl
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 node_modules/
 __tests__/runner/*
-dist/
+!dist/
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "bin"]
+	path = bin
+	url = git@github.com:julia-actions/bin.git
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,24 +1,86 @@
 # setup-julia Action

-[![Dependabot Status](https://api.dependabot.com/badges/status?host=github&repo=julia-actions/setup-julia)](https://dependabot.com)
+[![CodeQL](https://github.com/julia-actions/setup-julia/workflows/CodeQL/badge.svg)](https://securitylab.github.com/tools/codeql)

 This action sets up a Julia environment for use in actions by downloading a specified version of Julia and adding it to PATH.

 ## Table of Contents
 - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
 - [Usage](#usage)
+  - [Inputs](#inputs)
+  - [Outputs](#outputs)
  - [Basic](#basic)
  - [Julia Versions](#julia-versions)
  - [Matrix Testing](#matrix-testing)
+  - [versioninfo](#versioninfo)
 - [Versioning](#versioning)
- [Privacy Info](#privacy-info)
+- [Debug logs](#debug-logs)
 - [Third party information](#third-party-information)

 ## Usage

-See [action.yml](action.yml).
+### Inputs

-You can find a list of example workflows making use of this action here: [julia-actions/example-workflows](https://github.com/julia-actions/example-workflows).
+```yaml
+- uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+  with:
+    # The Julia version that will be installed and added as `julia` to the PATH.
+    # See "Julia Versions" below for a list of valid values.
+    #
+    # Warning: It is strongly recommended to wrap this value in quotes.
+    #          Otherwise, the YAML parser used by GitHub Actions parses certain
+    #          versions as numbers which causes the wrong version to be selected.
+    #          For example, `1.0` may be parsed as `1`.
+    #
+    # Default: '1'
+    version: ''
+
+    # The architecture of the Julia binaries.
+    #
+    # Please note that installing aarch64 binaries only makes sense on self-hosted aarch64 runners.
+    # We currently don't run test builds on that architecture, so we cannot guarantee that the input won't break randomly,
+    # although there is no reason why it would.
+    #
+    # Supported values: x64 | x86 | aarch64 (untested)
+    #
+    # Note: you can use X64, X86, and ARM64 as synonyms for x64, x86, and aarch64, respectively.
+    #
+    # Defaults to the architecture of the runner executing the job.
+    arch: ''
+
+    # Set the display setting for printing InteractiveUtils.versioninfo() after installing.
+    #
+    # Starting Julia and running InteractiveUtils.versioninfo() takes a significant amount of time (1s or ~10% of the total build time in testing),
+    # so you may not want to run it in every build, in particular on paid runners, as this cost will add up quickly.
+    #
+    # See "versioninfo" below for example usage and further explanations.
+    #
+    # Supported values: true | false | never
+    #
+    # true: Always print versioninfo
+    # false: Only print versioninfo for nightly Julia
+    # never: Never print versioninfo
+    #
+    # Default: false
+    show-versioninfo: ''
+```
+
+### Outputs
+
+```yaml
+outputs:
+  # The installed Julia version.
+  # May vary from the version input if a version range was given as input.
+  #
+  # Example output: '1.5.3'
+
+  julia-version: ''
+  # Path to the directory containing the Julia executable.
+  # Equivalent to JULIA_BINDIR: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/environment-variables/#JULIA_BINDIR
+  #
+  # Example output: '/opt/hostedtoolcache/julia/1.5.3/x64/bin'
+  julia-bindir: ''
+```

 ### Basic

@@ -35,23 +97,51 @@ steps:

 You can either specify specific Julia versions or version ranges. If you specify a version range, the **highest** available Julia version that matches the range will be selected.

-**Warning:** It is strongly recommended to wrap versions in quotes. Otherwise, the YAML parser used by GitHub Actions parses certain versions as numbers which causes the wrong version to be selected. For example, `1.0` is parsed as `1`.
+> **Warning**
+>
+> It is strongly recommended to wrap versions in quotes. Otherwise, the YAML parser used by GitHub Actions parses certain versions as numbers which causes the wrong version to be selected. For example, `1.0` may be parsed as `1`.

 #### Examples

 - `1.2.0` is a valid semver version. The action will try to download exactly this version. If it's not available, the build step will fail.
 - `1.0` is a version range that will match the highest available Julia version that starts with `1.0`, e.g. `1.0.5`, excluding pre-releases.
- `^1.3.0-rc1` is a **caret** version range that includes pre-releases starting at `rc1`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-rc1` and `< 2.0.0`.
- `~1.3.0-rc1` is a **tilde** version range that includes pre-releases starting at `rc1`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-rc1` and `< 1.4.0`.
- `^1.3.0-0` is a **caret** version range that includes _all_ pre-releases. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-` and `< 2.0.0`.
- `~1.3.0-0` is a **tilde** version range that includes _all_ pre-releases. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-` and `< 1.4.0`.
+- `^1.3.0-rc1` is a **caret** version range that includes pre-releases of `1.3.0` starting at `rc1`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-rc1` and `< 2.0.0`.
+- `~1.3.0-rc1` is a **tilde** version range that includes pre-releases of `1.3.0` starting at `rc1`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-rc1` and `< 1.4.0`.
+- `^1.3.0-0` is a **caret** version range that includes _all_ pre-releases of `1.3.0`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-` and `< 2.0.0`.
+- `~1.3.0-0` is a **tilde** version range that includes _all_ pre-releases of `1.3.0`. It matches all versions `≥ 1.3.0-` and `< 1.4.0`.
 - `nightly` will install the latest nightly build.
+- `1.7-nightly` will install the latest nightly build for the upcoming 1.7 release. This version will only be available during certain phases of the Julia release cycle.

 Internally the action uses node's semver package to resolve version ranges. Its [documentation](https://github.com/npm/node-semver#advanced-range-syntax) contains more details on the version range syntax. You can test what version will be selected for a given input in this JavaScript [REPL](https://repl.it/@SaschaMann/setup-julia-version-logic).

-#### WARNING: Version ranges are experimental and potentially out of date
+#### Prereleases

-Currently the list of available versions is hardcoded. You have to use the latest version of the action to be able to install the latest Julia versions. Once available we will use a list of versions provided on julialang.org.
+There are two methods of including pre-releases in version matching:
+
+1. Including the pre-release tag in the version itself, e.g. `^1.3.0-rc1`.
+2. Setting the input `include-all-prereleases` to `true`.
+
+These behave slightly differently.
+
+1. If the version `a.b.c` contains pre-release tag, all pre-releases of version `a.b.c` will be included in the version matching.
+For example, `^1.3.0-rc1` would match `1.3.0-rc2` but would **not** match `1.4.0-rc1` once released.
+2. If `include-preleases` is set to true, **all** pre-releases of all versions will be included in the version matching. In this case, `^1.3.0-rc1` would match `1.4.0-rc1` once released.
+
+**Example:** Without `include-all-prereleases: true`, the version `^1.3.0-rc1` would match `1.3.0-rc1`, `1.3.0-rc2`, `1.3.0`, `1.4.0` once they are released.
+With `include-all-prereleases: true`, it would match `1.3.0-rc1`, `1.3.0-rc2`, `1.3.0`, `1.4.0-rc1`, `1.4.0`.
+
+If you want to run tests against the latest tagged version, no matter what version that is, you can use
+
+```yaml
+- uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
+  with:
+    version: '1'
+    include-all-prereleases: true
+```
+
+#### Recently released versions
+
+The available Julia versions are pulled from [`versions.json`](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json).

 ### Matrix Testing

@@ -67,7 +157,7 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        julia-version: ['1.0', '1.2.0', '^1.3.0-rc1']
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macOS-latest]
-    
+
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
      - name: "Set up Julia"
@@ -93,7 +183,7 @@ jobs:
        exclude:
          - os: macOS-latest
            julia-arch: x86
-    
+
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
      - name: "Set up Julia"
@@ -120,7 +210,7 @@ jobs:
          - os: windows-latest
            julia-version: ['1.0.4']
            julia-arch: x86
-    
+
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
      - name: "Set up Julia"
@@ -131,6 +221,16 @@ jobs:
        shell: bash
 ```

+### versioninfo
+
+By default, only the output of `julia --version` is printed as verification that Julia has been installed for stable versions of Julia.
+`InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()` is run by default for nightly builds.
+
+Starting Julia and printing the full versioninfo takes a significant amount of time (1s or ~10% of the total build time in testing), so you may not want to run it in every build, in particular on paid runners as this cost will add up quickly.
+However, `julia --version` does not provide sufficient information to know which commit a nightly binary was built from, therefore it is useful to show the full versioninfo on nightly builds regardless.
+
+You can override this behaviour by changing the input to `never` if you never want to run `InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()` or to `true` if you always want to run `InteractiveUtils.versioninfo()`, even on stable Julia builds.
+
 ## Versioning

 This action follows [GitHub's advice](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-actions#versioning-your-action) on versioning actions, with an additional `latest` tag.
@@ -143,13 +243,22 @@ You can specify commits, branches or tags in your workflows as follows:

 ```yaml
 steps:
-  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@6ae948d # commit SHA
-  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@master  # branch
+  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@d3ce119a16594ea9e5d7974813970c73b6ab9e94 # commit SHA of the tagged 1.4.1 commit
  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@latest  # latest version tag (may break existing workflows)
  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1      # major version tag
-  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v0.1.0  # specific version tag
+  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1.4    # minor version tag
+  - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1.4.1  # specific version tag
 ```

+If your workflow requires access to secrets, you should always pin it to a commit SHA instead of a tag.
+This will protect you in case a bad actor gains access to the setup-julia repo.
+You can find more information in [GitHub's security hardening guide](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/learn-github-actions/security-hardening-for-github-actions#using-third-party-actions).
+
+## Debug logs
+
+You can enable [Step Debug Logs](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/main/docs/action-debugging.md#step-debug-logs) for more detailed logs.
+Note that when debug logs are enabled, a request will be sent to `https://httpbin.julialang.org/ip` and the runner's IP will be printed to the debug logs.
+
 ## Third party information
 Parts of this software have been derived from other open source software.
 See [THIRD_PARTY_NOTICE.md](THIRD_PARTY_NOTICE.md) for details.
--- a/tests/fixtures/versions.json
+++ b/tests/fixtures/versions.json
--- a/tests/installer.test.ts
+++ b/tests/installer.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+// The testing setup has been derived from the actions/setup-go@bc6edb5 action.
+// Check README.md for licence information.
+
+import * as path from 'path'
+
+import * as io from '@actions/io'
+
+import nock = require('nock')
+import * as semver from 'semver'
+
+const testVersions = [
+    '0.1.2',       '0.2.0',           '0.2.1',          '0.3.0',
+    '0.3.1',       '0.3.10',          '0.3.11',         '0.3.12',
+    '0.3.2',       '0.3.3',           '0.3.4',          '0.3.5',
+    '0.3.6',       '0.3.7',           '0.3.8',          '0.3.9',
+    '0.4.0',       '0.4.0-rc1',       '0.4.0-rc2',      '0.4.0-rc3',
+    '0.4.0-rc4',   '0.4.1',           '0.4.2',          '0.4.3',
+    '0.4.4',       '0.4.5',           '0.4.6',          '0.4.7',
+    '0.5.0',       '0.5.0-rc0',       '0.5.0-rc1',      '0.5.0-rc2',
+    '0.5.0-rc3',   '0.5.0-rc4',       '0.5.1',          '0.5.2',
+    '0.6.0',       '0.6.0-pre.alpha', '0.6.0-pre.beta', '0.6.0-rc1',
+    '0.6.0-rc2',   '0.6.0-rc3',       '0.6.1',          '0.6.2',
+    '0.6.3',       '0.6.4',           '0.7.0',          '0.7.0-alpha',
+    '0.7.0-beta',  '0.7.0-beta2',     '0.7.0-rc1',      '0.7.0-rc2',
+    '0.7.0-rc3',   '1.0.0',           '1.0.0-rc1',      '1.0.1',
+    '1.0.2',       '1.0.3',           '1.0.4',          '1.0.5',
+    '1.1.0',       '1.1.0-rc1',       '1.1.0-rc2',      '1.1.1',
+    '1.2.0',       '1.2.0-rc1',       '1.2.0-rc2',      '1.2.0-rc3',
+    '1.3.0-alpha', '1.3.0-rc1',       '1.3.0-rc2',      '1.3.0-rc3',
+    '1.3.0-rc4'
+]
+
+const toolDir = path.join(__dirname, 'runner', 'tools')
+const tempDir = path.join(__dirname, 'runner', 'temp')
+const fixtureDir = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures')
+
+process.env['RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE'] = toolDir
+process.env['RUNNER_TEMP'] = tempDir
+
+import * as installer from '../src/installer'
+
+describe('version matching tests', () => {
+    describe('specific versions', () => {
+        it('Doesn\'t change the version when given a valid semver version', () => {
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.5', 'v1.0.6'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.4', 'v1.0.5'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.4'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.3.0-alpha')).toEqual('1.3.0-alpha')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.2.0', 'v1.3.0-alpha', 'v1.3.0-rc1', 'v1.3.0'], '1.3.0-alpha')).toEqual('1.3.0-alpha')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.3.0-rc2')).toEqual('1.3.0-rc2')
+        })
+
+        it('Doesn\'t change the version when given `nightly`', () => {
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion([], 'nightly')).toEqual('nightly')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, 'nightly')).toEqual('nightly')
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('version ranges', () => {
+        it('Chooses the highest available version that matches the input', () => {
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '1')).toEqual('1.2.0')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '1.0')).toEqual('1.0.5')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.3.0-rc1')).toEqual('1.3.0-rc4')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.2.0-rc1')).toEqual('1.2.0')
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('include-prereleases', () => {
+        it('Chooses the highest available version that matches the input including prereleases', () => {
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.2.0-0', true)).toEqual('1.3.0-rc4')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '1', true)).toEqual('1.3.0-rc4')
+            expect(installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.2.0-0', false)).toEqual('1.2.0')
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('node-semver behaviour', () => {
+        describe('Windows installer change', () => {
+            it('Correctly understands >1.4.0', () => {
+                expect(semver.gtr('1.4.0-rc1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeTruthy()
+                expect(semver.gtr('1.4.0-DEV', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeTruthy()
+                expect(semver.gtr('1.3.1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeFalsy()
+                expect(semver.gtr('1.3.2-rc1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeFalsy()
+            })
+        })
+    })
+})
+
+describe('installer tests', () => {
+    beforeAll(async () => {
+        await io.rmRF(toolDir)
+        await io.rmRF(tempDir)
+    }, 100000)
+
+    afterAll(async () => {
+        try {
+            await io.rmRF(toolDir)
+            await io.rmRF(tempDir)
+        } catch {
+            console.log('Failed to remove test directories')
+        }
+    }, 100000)
+
+    describe('versions.json parsing', () => {
+        // Instead of downloading versions.json, use fixtures/versions.json
+        beforeEach(() => {
+            nock('https://julialang-s3.julialang.org').persist()
+                .get('/bin/versions.json')
+                .replyWithFile(200, path.join(fixtureDir, 'versions.json'))
+        })
+
+        afterEach(() => {
+            nock.cleanAll()
+            nock.enableNetConnect()
+        })
+
+        it('Extracts the list of available versions', async () => {
+            expect(await (await installer.getJuliaVersions(await installer.getJuliaVersionInfo())).sort()).toEqual(testVersions.sort())
+        })
+    })
+})
--- a/tests/main.test.ts
+++ b/tests/main.test.ts
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-import * as installer from '../src/installer'
-
-import * as semver from 'semver'
-
-const testVersions = ['v1.3.0-rc4', 'v1.3.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-rc2', 'v1.0.5', 'v1.2.0', 'v1.3.0-rc1', 'v1.2.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-alpha', 'v1.2.0-rc2', 'v1.2.0-rc1', 'v1.1.1', 'v1.0.4', 'v1.1.0', 'v1.1.0-rc2', 'v1.1.0-rc1', 'v1.0.3', 'v1.0.2', 'v1.0.1', 'v1.0.0']
-
-describe('installer tests', () => {
-    describe('version matching', () => {
-        describe('specific versions', () => {
-            it('Doesn\'t change the version when given a valid semver version', async () => {
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.5', 'v1.0.6'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.4', 'v1.0.5'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.0.4'], '1.0.5')).toEqual('1.0.5')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.3.0-alpha')).toEqual('1.3.0-alpha')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.2.0', 'v1.3.0-alpha', 'v1.3.0-rc1', 'v1.3.0'], '1.3.0-alpha')).toEqual('1.3.0-alpha')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion([], '1.3.0-rc2')).toEqual('1.3.0-rc2')
-            })
-            it('Doesn\'t change the version when given `nightly`', async () => {
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion([], 'nightly')).toEqual('nightly')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, 'nightly')).toEqual('nightly')
-            })
-        })
-        describe('version ranges', () => {
-            it('Chooses the highest available version that matches the input', async () => {
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '1')).toEqual('1.2.0')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '1.0')).toEqual('1.0.5')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.3.0-rc1')).toEqual('1.3.0-rc4')
-                expect(await installer.getJuliaVersion(testVersions, '^1.2.0-rc1')).toEqual('1.2.0')
-            })
-        })
-        describe('invalid version range (#38)', () => {
-            it('Throws an error if a version range does not match any available version', () => {
-                expect(() => {
-                    installer.getJuliaVersion(['v1.5.0-rc1', 'v1.5.0-beta1', 'v1.4.2', 'v1.4.1', 'v1.4.0', 'v1.4.0-rc2', 'v1.4.0-rc1'], '1.6')
-                }).toThrowError()
-            })
-        })
-    })
-    describe('node-semver behaviour', () => {
-        describe('Windows installer change', () => {
-            it('Correctly understands >1.4.0', () => {
-                expect(semver.gtr('1.4.0-rc1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeTruthy()
-                expect(semver.gtr('1.4.0-DEV', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeTruthy()
-                expect(semver.gtr('1.3.1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeFalsy()
-                expect(semver.gtr('1.3.2-rc1', '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})).toBeFalsy()
-            })
-        })
-    })
-})
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -5,16 +5,25 @@ inputs:
  version:
    description: 'The Julia version to download (if necessary) and use. Example: 1.0.4'
    default: '1'
-  arch:
-    description: 'Architecture of the Julia binaries. Defaults to x64.'
+  include-all-prereleases:
+    description: 'Include prereleases when matching the Julia version to available versions.'
    required: false
-    default: 'x64'
+    default: 'false'
+  arch:
+    description: 'Architecture of the Julia binaries. Defaults to the architecture of the runner executing the job.'
+    required: false
+    default: '${{ runner.arch }}'
  show-versioninfo:
    description: 'Display InteractiveUtils.versioninfo() after installing'
    required: false
    default: 'false'
+outputs:
+  julia-version:
+    description: 'The installed Julia version. May vary from the version input if a version range was given as input.'
+  julia-bindir:
+    description: 'Path to the directory containing the Julia executable. Equivalent to JULIA_BINDIR: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/environment-variables/#JULIA_BINDIR'
 runs:
-  using: 'node12'
+  using: 'node16'
  main: 'dist/index.js'
 branding:
  icon: 'download'
--- a/1
+++ b/1
--- a/bin/build-release
+++ b/bin/build-release
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-branch_name="$(git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD)"
-version="v$(jq -r .version package.json)"
-repo="$1"
-
-if [ -z "$repo" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: must specify repository"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "=== debug info ==="
-echo "branch: $branch_name"
-echo "version: $version"
-echo "repo: $repo"
-echo "=================="
-echo ""
-
-# Check that the version doesn't exist yet
-version_exists="$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/"$repo"/tags -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.full+json" | jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "'"$version"'") | .name')"
-if [ -n "$version_exists" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: version $version already exists"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-git checkout -b releases/"$version"
-
-npm install
-npm run build
-npm test
-npm run pack
-
-sed -i 's/dist/!dist/g' .gitignore
-git add dist
-git commit -a -m "Add production dependencies & build"
-
-# Tags
-major_minor="$(sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' <<< "$version")"
-major="$(sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' <<< "$major_minor")"
-
-git tag "$version"
-git tag -f "$major_minor"
-git tag -f "$major"
-git tag -f "latest"
--- a/bin/build-test-release
+++ b/bin/build-test-release
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-branch_name="$(git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD)"
-version="v$(jq -r .version package.json)"
-repo="$1"
-
-if [ -z "$repo" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: must specify repository"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "=== debug info ==="
-echo "branch: $branch_name"
-echo "version: $version"
-echo "repo: $repo"
-echo "=================="
-echo ""
-
-# Check that the version doesn't exist yet
-version_exists="$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/"$repo"/tags -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.full+json" | jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "'"$version"'") | .name')"
-if [ -n "$version_exists" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: version $version already exists"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-git checkout -B test/"$branch_name"/releases/"$version"
-
-npm install
-npm run build
-npm test
-npm run pack
-
-# Add dist/ to git and commit it
-sed -i 's/dist/!dist/g' .gitignore
-git add dist
-git commit -a -m "Add production dependencies & build"
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
--- a/lib/installer.js
+++ b/lib/installer.js
@@ -1,42 +1,118 @@
 "use strict";
-var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, P, generator) {
-    return new (P || (P = Promise))(function (resolve, reject) {
-        function fulfilled(value) { try { step(generator.next(value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
-        function rejected(value) { try { step(generator["throw"](value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
-        function step(result) { result.done ? resolve(result.value) : new P(function (resolve) { resolve(result.value); }).then(fulfilled, rejected); }
-        step((generator = generator.apply(thisArg, _arguments || [])).next());
-    });
-};
+var __createBinding = (this && this.__createBinding) || (Object.create ? (function(o, m, k, k2) {
+    if (k2 === undefined) k2 = k;
+    var desc = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(m, k);
+    if (!desc || ("get" in desc ? !m.__esModule : desc.writable || desc.configurable)) {
+      desc = { enumerable: true, get: function() { return m[k]; } };
+    }
+    Object.defineProperty(o, k2, desc);
+}) : (function(o, m, k, k2) {
+    if (k2 === undefined) k2 = k;
+    o[k2] = m[k];
+}));
+var __setModuleDefault = (this && this.__setModuleDefault) || (Object.create ? (function(o, v) {
+    Object.defineProperty(o, "default", { enumerable: true, value: v });
+}) : function(o, v) {
+    o["default"] = v;
+});
 var __importStar = (this && this.__importStar) || function (mod) {
    if (mod && mod.__esModule) return mod;
    var result = {};
-    if (mod != null) for (var k in mod) if (Object.hasOwnProperty.call(mod, k)) result[k] = mod[k];
-    result["default"] = mod;
+    if (mod != null) for (var k in mod) if (k !== "default" && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(mod, k)) __createBinding(result, mod, k);
+    __setModuleDefault(result, mod);
    return result;
 };
+var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, P, generator) {
+    function adopt(value) { return value instanceof P ? value : new P(function (resolve) { resolve(value); }); }
+    return new (P || (P = Promise))(function (resolve, reject) {
+        function fulfilled(value) { try { step(generator.next(value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
+        function rejected(value) { try { step(generator["throw"](value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
+        function step(result) { result.done ? resolve(result.value) : adopt(result.value).then(fulfilled, rejected); }
+        step((generator = generator.apply(thisArg, _arguments || [])).next());
+    });
+};
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
+exports.showVersionInfo = exports.installJulia = exports.getDownloadURL = exports.getFileInfo = exports.getJuliaVersion = exports.getJuliaVersions = exports.getJuliaVersionInfo = void 0;
 const core = __importStar(require("@actions/core"));
 const exec = __importStar(require("@actions/exec"));
 const tc = __importStar(require("@actions/tool-cache"));
+const crypto = __importStar(require("crypto"));
+const fs = __importStar(require("fs"));
 const os = __importStar(require("os"));
 const path = __importStar(require("path"));
+const retry = require("async-retry");
 const semver = __importStar(require("semver"));
+// Translations between actions input and Julia arch names
+const osMap = {
+    'win32': 'winnt',
+    'darwin': 'mac',
+    'linux': 'linux'
+};
+const archMap = {
+    'x86': 'i686',
+    'x64': 'x86_64',
+    'aarch64': 'aarch64'
+};
 // Store information about the environment
 const osPlat = os.platform(); // possible values: win32 (Windows), linux (Linux), darwin (macOS)
 core.debug(`platform: ${osPlat}`);
-// This is temporary until we have a better way of fetching releases (see #1, #4 for details)
-exports.juliaVersions = ['v1.5.0-rc2', 'v1.5.0-rc1', 'v1.5.0-beta1', 'v1.4.2', 'v1.4.1', 'v1.4.0', 'v1.4.0-rc2', 'v1.4.0-rc1', 'v1.3.1', 'v1.3.0', 'v1.3.0-rc5', 'v1.3.0-rc4', 'v1.3.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-rc2', 'v1.0.5', 'v1.2.0', 'v1.3.0-rc1', 'v1.2.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-alpha', 'v1.2.0-rc2', 'v1.2.0-rc1', 'v1.1.1', 'v1.0.4', 'v1.1.0', 'v1.1.0-rc2', 'v1.1.0-rc1', 'v1.0.3', 'v1.0.2', 'v1.0.1', 'v1.0.0', 'v0.7.0', 'v1.0.0-rc1', 'v0.7.0-rc3', 'v0.7.0-rc2', 'v0.7.0-rc1', 'v0.7.0-beta2', 'v0.6.4', 'v0.7.0-beta', 'v0.7.0-alpha', 'v0.6.3', 'v0.6.2', 'v0.6.1', 'v0.6.0', 'v0.6.0-rc3', 'v0.6.0-rc2', 'v0.5.2', 'v0.6.0-rc1', 'v0.6.0-pre.beta', 'v0.5.1', 'v0.6.0-pre.alpha', 'v0.5.0', 'v0.4.7', 'v0.5.0-rc4', 'v0.5.0-rc3', 'v0.5.0-rc2', 'v0.5.0-rc1', 'v0.5.0-rc0', 'v0.4.6', 'v0.4.5', 'v0.4.4', 'v0.4.3', 'v0.4.2', 'v0.4.1', 'v0.3.12', 'v0.4.0', 'v0.4.0-rc4', 'v0.4.0-rc3', 'v0.4.0-rc2', 'v0.4.0-rc1', 'v0.3.11', 'v0.3.10', 'v0.3.9', 'v0.3.8', 'v0.3.7', 'v0.3.6', 'v0.3.5', 'v0.3.4', 'v0.3.3', 'v0.3.2', 'v0.3.1', 'v0.3.0', 'v0.3.0-rc4', 'v0.3.0-rc3', 'v0.3.0-rc2', 'v0.3.0-rc1', 'v0.2.0-rc1', 'v0.2.0-rc3', 'v0.2.0-rc4', 'v0.2.0', 'v0.2.0-rc2'];
-function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput) {
-    if (semver.valid(versionInput) == versionInput) {
-        // versionInput is a valid version, use it directly
+/**
+ * @returns The SHA256 checksum of a given file.
+ */
+function calculateChecksum(file) {
+    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+        const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256');
+        const input = fs.createReadStream(file);
+        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+            input.on('data', (chunk) => {
+                hash.update(chunk);
+            });
+            input.on('end', () => {
+                const digest = hash.digest('hex');
+                digest ? resolve(digest) : reject(new Error(`Could not calculate checksum of file ${file}: digest was empty.`));
+            });
+        });
+    });
+}
+/**
+ * @returns The content of the downloaded versions.json file as object.
+ */
+function getJuliaVersionInfo() {
+    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+        // Occasionally the connection is reset for unknown reasons
+        // In those cases, retry the download
+        const versionsFile = yield retry((bail) => __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+            return yield tc.downloadTool('https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json');
+        }), {
+            retries: 5,
+            onRetry: (err) => {
+                core.info(`Download of versions.json failed, trying again. Error: ${err}`);
+            }
+        });
+        return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(versionsFile).toString());
+    });
+}
+exports.getJuliaVersionInfo = getJuliaVersionInfo;
+/**
+ * @returns An array of all Julia versions available for download
+ */
+function getJuliaVersions(versionInfo) {
+    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+        let versions = [];
+        for (let version in versionInfo) {
+            versions.push(version);
+        }
+        return versions;
+    });
+}
+exports.getJuliaVersions = getJuliaVersions;
+function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput, includePrerelease = false) {
+    if (semver.valid(versionInput) == versionInput || versionInput.endsWith('nightly')) {
+        // versionInput is a valid version or a nightly version, use it directly
        return versionInput;
    }
-    // nightlies
-    if (versionInput == 'nightly') {
-        return 'nightly';
-    }
    // Use the highest available version that matches versionInput
-    let version = semver.maxSatisfying(availableReleases, versionInput);
+    let version = semver.maxSatisfying(availableReleases, versionInput, { includePrerelease });
    if (version == null) {
        throw new Error(`Could not find a Julia version that matches ${versionInput}`);
    }
@@ -45,94 +121,201 @@ function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput) {
    return version;
 }
 exports.getJuliaVersion = getJuliaVersion;
-function getMajorMinorVersion(version) {
-    return version.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.');
-}
-function getDownloadURL(version, arch) {
-    let platform;
-    if (osPlat === 'win32') { // Windows
-        platform = 'winnt';
+function getDesiredFileExts() {
+    let fileExt1;
+    let hasFileExt2;
+    let fileExt2;
+    if (osPlat == 'win32') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz';
+        hasFileExt2 = true;
+        fileExt2 = 'exe';
    }
-    else if (osPlat === 'darwin') { // macOS
-        if (arch == 'x86') {
-            throw new Error('32-bit Julia is not available on macOS');
-        }
-        platform = 'mac';
+    else if (osPlat == 'darwin') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz';
+        hasFileExt2 = true;
+        fileExt2 = 'dmg';
    }
-    else if (osPlat === 'linux') { // Linux
-        platform = 'linux';
+    else if (osPlat === 'linux') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz';
+        hasFileExt2 = false;
+        fileExt2 = '';
    }
    else {
        throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`);
    }
-    // nightlies
-    if (version == 'nightly') {
-        const baseURL = 'https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin';
-        return `${baseURL}/${platform}/${arch}/${getFileName('latest', arch)}`;
-    }
-    // normal versions
-    const baseURL = 'https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin';
-    const versionDir = getMajorMinorVersion(version);
-    return `${baseURL}/${platform}/${arch}/${versionDir}/${getFileName(version, arch)}`;
+    return [fileExt1, hasFileExt2, fileExt2];
 }
-function getFileName(version, arch) {
-    let versionExt, ext;
-    if (osPlat === 'win32') { // Windows
+function getNightlyFileName(arch) {
+    let versionExt;
+    let fileExt1;
+    [fileExt1, ,] = getDesiredFileExts();
+    if (osPlat == 'win32') {
        versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-win64' : '-win32';
-        ext = 'exe';
    }
-    else if (osPlat === 'darwin') { // macOS
+    else if (osPlat == 'darwin') {
        if (arch == 'x86') {
            throw new Error('32-bit Julia is not available on macOS');
        }
        versionExt = '-mac64';
-        ext = 'dmg';
    }
-    else if (osPlat === 'linux') { // Linux
-        if (version == 'latest') { // nightly version
-            versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux64' : '-linux32';
-        }
-        else {
-            versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux-x86_64' : '-linux-i686';
-        }
-        ext = 'tar.gz';
+    else if (osPlat === 'linux') {
+        versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux64' : '-linux32';
    }
    else {
        throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`);
    }
-    return `julia-${version}${versionExt}.${ext}`;
+    return `julia-latest${versionExt}.${fileExt1}`;
 }
-function installJulia(version, arch) {
+function getFileInfo(versionInfo, version, arch) {
+    const err = `Could not find ${archMap[arch]}/${version} binaries`;
+    let fileExt1;
+    let hasFileExt2;
+    let fileExt2;
+    [fileExt1, hasFileExt2, fileExt2] = getDesiredFileExts();
+    if (version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    if (!versionInfo[version]) {
+        throw err;
+    }
+    for (let file of versionInfo[version].files) {
+        if (file.os == osMap[osPlat] && file.arch == archMap[arch]) {
+            if (file.extension == fileExt1) {
+                return file;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if (hasFileExt2) {
+        core.debug(`Could not find ${fileExt1}; trying to find ${fileExt2} instead`);
+        for (let file of versionInfo[version].files) {
+            if (file.os == osMap[osPlat] && file.arch == archMap[arch]) {
+                if (file.extension == fileExt2) {
+                    return file;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    throw err;
+}
+exports.getFileInfo = getFileInfo;
+function getDownloadURL(fileInfo, version, arch) {
+    const baseURL = `https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/${osMap[osPlat]}/${arch}`;
+    // release branch nightlies, e.g. 1.6-nightlies should return .../bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz
+    const majorMinorMatches = /^(\d*.\d*)-nightly/.exec(version);
+    if (majorMinorMatches) {
+        return `${baseURL}/${majorMinorMatches[1]}/${getNightlyFileName(arch)}`;
+    }
+    // nightlies
+    if (version == 'nightly') {
+        return `${baseURL}/${getNightlyFileName(arch)}`;
+    }
+    // Verify that fileInfo.url points at the official Julia download servers
+    if (!fileInfo.url.startsWith('https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/')) {
+        throw new Error(`versions.json points at a download location outside of Julia's download server: ${fileInfo.url}. Aborting for security reasons.`);
+    }
+    return fileInfo.url;
+}
+exports.getDownloadURL = getDownloadURL;
+function installJulia(dest, versionInfo, version, arch) {
    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
        // Download Julia
-        const downloadURL = getDownloadURL(version, arch);
+        const fileInfo = getFileInfo(versionInfo, version, arch);
+        const downloadURL = getDownloadURL(fileInfo, version, arch);
        core.debug(`downloading Julia from ${downloadURL}`);
-        const juliaDownloadPath = yield tc.downloadTool(downloadURL);
+        // Occasionally the connection is reset for unknown reasons
+        // In those cases, retry the download
+        const juliaDownloadPath = yield retry((bail) => __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+            return yield tc.downloadTool(downloadURL);
+        }), {
+            retries: 5,
+            onRetry: (err) => {
+                core.info(`Download of ${downloadURL} failed, trying again. Error: ${err}`);
+            }
+        });
+        // Verify checksum
+        if (!version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+            const checkSum = yield calculateChecksum(juliaDownloadPath);
+            if (fileInfo.sha256 != checkSum) {
+                throw new Error(`Checksum of downloaded file does not match the expected checksum from versions.json.\nExpected: ${fileInfo.sha256}\nGot: ${checkSum}`);
+            }
+            core.debug(`Checksum of downloaded file matches expected checksum: ${checkSum}`);
+        }
+        else {
+            core.debug('Skipping checksum check for nightly binaries.');
+        }
        // Install it
        switch (osPlat) {
            case 'linux':
                // tc.extractTar doesn't support stripping components, so we have to call tar manually
-                yield exec.exec('mkdir', [`${process.env.HOME}/julia`]);
-                yield exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', `${process.env.HOME}/julia`]);
-                return `${process.env.HOME}/julia`;
+                yield exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', dest]);
+                return dest;
            case 'win32':
-                const juliaInstallationPath = path.join('C:', 'Julia');
-                if (version == 'nightly' || semver.gtr(version, '1.3', { includePrerelease: true })) {
-                    // The installer changed in 1.4: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/ef0c9108b12f3ae177c51037934351ffa703b0b5/NEWS.md#build-system-changes
-                    yield exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/SILENT /dir=${juliaInstallationPath}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`]);
+                if (fileInfo !== null && fileInfo.extension == 'exe') {
+                    if (version.endsWith('nightly') || semver.gtr(version, '1.3', { includePrerelease: true })) {
+                        // The installer changed in 1.4: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/ef0c9108b12f3ae177c51037934351ffa703b0b5/NEWS.md#build-system-changes
+                        yield exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/SILENT /dir=${path.join(process.cwd(), dest)}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`]);
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        yield exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/S /D=${path.join(process.cwd(), dest)}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`]);
+                    }
                }
                else {
-                    yield exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/S /D=${juliaInstallationPath}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`]);
+                    // This is the more common path. Using .tar.gz is much faster
+                    yield exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `tar xf ${juliaDownloadPath} --strip-components=1 -C ${dest}`]);
                }
-                return juliaInstallationPath;
+                return dest;
            case 'darwin':
-                yield exec.exec('hdiutil', ['attach', juliaDownloadPath]);
-                yield exec.exec('mkdir', [`${process.env.HOME}/julia`]);
-                yield exec.exec('/bin/bash', ['-c', `cp -a /Volumes/Julia-*/Julia-*.app/Contents/Resources/julia ${process.env.HOME}`]);
-                return `${process.env.HOME}/julia`;
+                if (fileInfo !== null && fileInfo.extension == 'dmg') {
+                    core.debug(`Support for .dmg files is deprecated and may be removed in a future release`);
+                    yield exec.exec('hdiutil', ['attach', juliaDownloadPath]);
+                    yield exec.exec('/bin/bash', ['-c', `cp -a /Volumes/Julia-*/Julia-*.app/Contents/Resources/julia ${dest}`]);
+                    return path.join(dest, 'julia');
+                }
+                else {
+                    // tc.extractTar doesn't support stripping components, so we have to call tar manually
+                    yield exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', dest]);
+                    return dest;
+                }
            default:
                throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`);
        }
    });
 }
 exports.installJulia = installJulia;
+/**
+ * Test if Julia has been installed and print the version.
+ *
+ * true => always show versioninfo
+ * false => only show on nightlies
+ * never => never show it anywhere
+ *
+ * @param showVersionInfoInput
+ */
+function showVersionInfo(showVersionInfoInput, version) {
+    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
+        // --compile=min -O0 reduces the time from ~1.8-1.9s to ~0.8-0.9s
+        let exitCode;
+        switch (showVersionInfoInput) {
+            case 'true':
+                exitCode = yield exec.exec('julia', ['--compile=min', '-O0', '-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()']);
+                break;
+            case 'false':
+                if (version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+                    exitCode = yield exec.exec('julia', ['--compile=min', '-O0', '-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()']);
+                }
+                else {
+                    exitCode = yield exec.exec('julia', ['--version']);
+                }
+                break;
+            case 'never':
+                exitCode = yield exec.exec('julia', ['--version']);
+                break;
+            default:
+                throw new Error(`${showVersionInfoInput} is not a valid value for show-versioninfo. Supported values: true | false | never`);
+        }
+        if (exitCode !== 0) {
+            throw new Error(`Julia could not be installed properly. Exit code: ${exitCode}`);
+        }
+    });
+}
+exports.showVersionInfo = showVersionInfo;
--- a/lib/setup-julia.js
+++ b/lib/setup-julia.js
@@ -1,54 +1,119 @@
 "use strict";
-var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, P, generator) {
-    return new (P || (P = Promise))(function (resolve, reject) {
-        function fulfilled(value) { try { step(generator.next(value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
-        function rejected(value) { try { step(generator["throw"](value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
-        function step(result) { result.done ? resolve(result.value) : new P(function (resolve) { resolve(result.value); }).then(fulfilled, rejected); }
-        step((generator = generator.apply(thisArg, _arguments || [])).next());
-    });
-};
+var __createBinding = (this && this.__createBinding) || (Object.create ? (function(o, m, k, k2) {
+    if (k2 === undefined) k2 = k;
+    var desc = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(m, k);
+    if (!desc || ("get" in desc ? !m.__esModule : desc.writable || desc.configurable)) {
+      desc = { enumerable: true, get: function() { return m[k]; } };
+    }
+    Object.defineProperty(o, k2, desc);
+}) : (function(o, m, k, k2) {
+    if (k2 === undefined) k2 = k;
+    o[k2] = m[k];
+}));
+var __setModuleDefault = (this && this.__setModuleDefault) || (Object.create ? (function(o, v) {
+    Object.defineProperty(o, "default", { enumerable: true, value: v });
+}) : function(o, v) {
+    o["default"] = v;
+});
 var __importStar = (this && this.__importStar) || function (mod) {
    if (mod && mod.__esModule) return mod;
    var result = {};
-    if (mod != null) for (var k in mod) if (Object.hasOwnProperty.call(mod, k)) result[k] = mod[k];
-    result["default"] = mod;
+    if (mod != null) for (var k in mod) if (k !== "default" && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(mod, k)) __createBinding(result, mod, k);
+    __setModuleDefault(result, mod);
    return result;
 };
+var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, P, generator) {
+    function adopt(value) { return value instanceof P ? value : new P(function (resolve) { resolve(value); }); }
+    return new (P || (P = Promise))(function (resolve, reject) {
+        function fulfilled(value) { try { step(generator.next(value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
+        function rejected(value) { try { step(generator["throw"](value)); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
+        function step(result) { result.done ? resolve(result.value) : adopt(result.value).then(fulfilled, rejected); }
+        step((generator = generator.apply(thisArg, _arguments || [])).next());
+    });
+};
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
 const core = __importStar(require("@actions/core"));
-const exec = __importStar(require("@actions/exec"));
 const tc = __importStar(require("@actions/tool-cache"));
+const fs = __importStar(require("fs"));
+const https = __importStar(require("https"));
 const path = __importStar(require("path"));
 const installer = __importStar(require("./installer"));
+const archSynonyms = {
+    'x86': 'x86',
+    'X86': 'x86',
+    'x64': 'x64',
+    'X64': 'x64',
+    'aarch64': 'aarch64',
+    'ARM64': 'aarch64',
+    'arm64': 'aarch64'
+};
 function run() {
    return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
        try {
+            // Debugging info
+            if (core.isDebug()) {
+                // Log Runner IP Address
+                https.get('https://httpbin.julialang.org/ip', resp => {
+                    let data = '';
+                    resp.on('data', chunk => {
+                        data += chunk;
+                    });
+                    resp.on('end', () => {
+                        core.debug(`Runner IP address: ${JSON.parse(data).origin}`);
+                    });
+                }).on('error', err => {
+                    core.debug(`ERROR: Could not retrieve runner IP: ${err}`);
+                });
+            }
+            // Inputs
            const versionInput = core.getInput('version');
-            const arch = core.getInput('arch');
-            const availableReleases = installer.juliaVersions;
-            const version = installer.getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput);
+            const includePrereleases = core.getInput('include-all-prereleases') == 'true';
+            const originalArchInput = core.getInput('arch');
+            // It can easily happen that, for example, a workflow file contains an input `version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}`
+            // while the strategy matrix only contains a key `${{ matrix.version }}`.
+            // In that case, we want the action to fail, rather than trying to download julia from an URL that's missing parts and 404ing.
+            // We _could_ fall back to the default but that means that builds silently do things differently than they're meant to, which
+            // is worse than failing the build.
+            if (!versionInput) {
+                throw new Error('Version input must not be null');
+            }
+            if (!originalArchInput) {
+                throw new Error(`Arch input must not be null`);
+            }
+            const arch = archSynonyms[originalArchInput];
+            const versionInfo = yield installer.getJuliaVersionInfo();
+            const availableReleases = yield installer.getJuliaVersions(versionInfo);
+            const version = installer.getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput, includePrereleases);
            core.debug(`selected Julia version: ${arch}/${version}`);
+            core.setOutput('julia-version', version);
            // Search in cache
            let juliaPath;
            juliaPath = tc.find('julia', version, arch);
            if (!juliaPath) {
-                core.debug(`could not find Julia ${version} in cache`);
-                const juliaInstallationPath = yield installer.installJulia(version, arch);
-                // Add it to cache
-                juliaPath = yield tc.cacheDir(juliaInstallationPath, 'julia', version, arch);
+                core.debug(`could not find Julia ${arch}/${version} in cache`);
+                // https://github.com/julia-actions/setup-julia/pull/196
+                // we want julia to be installed with unmodified file mtimes
+                // but `tc.cacheDir` uses `cp` internally which destroys mtime
+                // and `tc` provides no API to get the tool directory alone
+                // so hack it by installing a empty directory then use the path it returns
+                // and extract the archives directly to that location
+                const emptyDir = fs.mkdtempSync('empty');
+                juliaPath = yield tc.cacheDir(emptyDir, 'julia', version, arch);
+                yield installer.installJulia(juliaPath, versionInfo, version, arch);
                core.debug(`added Julia to cache: ${juliaPath}`);
+                // Remove empty dir
+                fs.rmdirSync(emptyDir);
            }
            else {
                core.debug(`using cached version of Julia: ${juliaPath}`);
            }
            // Add it to PATH
            core.addPath(path.join(juliaPath, 'bin'));
-            // Test if Julia has been installed
-            exec.exec('julia', ['--version']);
-            // If enabled, also show the full version info
-            if (core.getInput('show-versioninfo') == 'true') {
-                exec.exec('julia', ['-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()']);
-            }
+            // Set output
+            core.setOutput('julia-bindir', path.join(juliaPath, 'bin'));
+            // Test if Julia has been installed and print the version
+            const showVersionInfoInput = core.getInput('show-versioninfo');
+            yield installer.showVersionInfo(showVersionInfoInput, version);
        }
        catch (error) {
            core.setFailed(error.message);
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
  "name": "setup-julia",
-  "version": "1.1.10",
+  "version": "1.9.5",
  "private": true,
  "description": "setup Julia action",
  "main": "lib/setup-julia.js",
@@ -21,21 +21,25 @@
  "author": "Sascha Mann <git@mail.saschamann.eu>",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
-    "@actions/core": "^1.0.0",
-    "@actions/exec": "^1.0.0",
-    "@actions/io": "^1.0.0",
-    "@actions/tool-cache": "^1.0.0",
-    "semver": "^6.3.0"
+    "@actions/core": "^1.10.1",
+    "@actions/exec": "^1.1.1",
+    "@actions/io": "^1.1.3",
+    "@actions/tool-cache": "^2.0.1",
+    "async-retry": "^1.3.3",
+    "semver": "^7.5.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
-    "@types/jest": "^24.0.13",
-    "@types/node": "^12.12.7",
-    "@types/semver": "^6.0.0",
-    "@zeit/ncc": "^0.22.0",
-    "jest": "^24.8.0",
-    "jest-circus": "^24.7.1",
-    "prettier": "^1.17.1",
-    "ts-jest": "^26.0.0",
-    "typescript": "^3.5.1"
+    "@types/async-retry": "^1.4.8",
+    "@types/jest": "^29.5.11",
+    "@types/node": "^20.10.6",
+    "@types/retry": "^0.12.5",
+    "@types/semver": "^7.5.6",
+    "@vercel/ncc": "^0.38.1",
+    "jest": "^29.7.0",
+    "jest-circus": "^29.7.0",
+    "nock": "^13.4.0",
+    "prettier": "^3.1.1",
+    "ts-jest": "^29.1.1",
+    "typescript": "^5.3.3"
  }
 }
--- a/src/installer.ts
+++ b/src/installer.ts
@@ -2,31 +2,88 @@ import * as core from '@actions/core'
 import * as exec from '@actions/exec'
 import * as tc from '@actions/tool-cache'

+import * as crypto from 'crypto'
+import * as fs from 'fs'
 import * as os from 'os'
 import * as path from 'path'
+import retry = require('async-retry')

 import * as semver from 'semver'

+// Translations between actions input and Julia arch names
+const osMap = {
+    'win32': 'winnt',
+    'darwin': 'mac',
+    'linux': 'linux'
+}
+const archMap = {
+    'x86': 'i686',
+    'x64': 'x86_64',
+    'aarch64': 'aarch64'
+}
+
 // Store information about the environment
 const osPlat = os.platform() // possible values: win32 (Windows), linux (Linux), darwin (macOS)
 core.debug(`platform: ${osPlat}`)

-// This is temporary until we have a better way of fetching releases (see #1, #4 for details)
-export const juliaVersions = ['v1.5.0-rc2', 'v1.5.0-rc1', 'v1.5.0-beta1', 'v1.4.2', 'v1.4.1', 'v1.4.0', 'v1.4.0-rc2', 'v1.4.0-rc1', 'v1.3.1', 'v1.3.0', 'v1.3.0-rc5', 'v1.3.0-rc4', 'v1.3.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-rc2', 'v1.0.5', 'v1.2.0', 'v1.3.0-rc1', 'v1.2.0-rc3', 'v1.3.0-alpha', 'v1.2.0-rc2', 'v1.2.0-rc1', 'v1.1.1', 'v1.0.4', 'v1.1.0', 'v1.1.0-rc2', 'v1.1.0-rc1', 'v1.0.3', 'v1.0.2', 'v1.0.1', 'v1.0.0', 'v0.7.0', 'v1.0.0-rc1', 'v0.7.0-rc3', 'v0.7.0-rc2', 'v0.7.0-rc1', 'v0.7.0-beta2', 'v0.6.4', 'v0.7.0-beta', 'v0.7.0-alpha', 'v0.6.3', 'v0.6.2', 'v0.6.1', 'v0.6.0', 'v0.6.0-rc3', 'v0.6.0-rc2', 'v0.5.2', 'v0.6.0-rc1', 'v0.6.0-pre.beta', 'v0.5.1', 'v0.6.0-pre.alpha', 'v0.5.0', 'v0.4.7', 'v0.5.0-rc4', 'v0.5.0-rc3', 'v0.5.0-rc2', 'v0.5.0-rc1', 'v0.5.0-rc0', 'v0.4.6', 'v0.4.5', 'v0.4.4', 'v0.4.3', 'v0.4.2', 'v0.4.1', 'v0.3.12', 'v0.4.0', 'v0.4.0-rc4', 'v0.4.0-rc3', 'v0.4.0-rc2', 'v0.4.0-rc1', 'v0.3.11', 'v0.3.10', 'v0.3.9', 'v0.3.8', 'v0.3.7', 'v0.3.6', 'v0.3.5', 'v0.3.4', 'v0.3.3', 'v0.3.2', 'v0.3.1', 'v0.3.0', 'v0.3.0-rc4', 'v0.3.0-rc3', 'v0.3.0-rc2', 'v0.3.0-rc1', 'v0.2.0-rc1', 'v0.2.0-rc3', 'v0.2.0-rc4', 'v0.2.0', 'v0.2.0-rc2']
+/**
+ * @returns The SHA256 checksum of a given file.
+ */
+async function calculateChecksum(file: string): Promise<string> {
+    const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256')
+    const input = fs.createReadStream(file)

-export function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases: string[], versionInput: string): string {
-    if (semver.valid(versionInput) == versionInput) {
-        // versionInput is a valid version, use it directly
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        input.on('data', (chunk) => {
+            hash.update(chunk)
+        })
+
+        input.on('end', () => {
+            const digest = hash.digest('hex')
+            digest ? resolve(digest) : reject(new Error(`Could not calculate checksum of file ${file}: digest was empty.`))
+        })
+    })
+}
+
+/**
+ * @returns The content of the downloaded versions.json file as object.
+ */
+export async function getJuliaVersionInfo(): Promise<object> {
+    // Occasionally the connection is reset for unknown reasons
+    // In those cases, retry the download
+    const versionsFile = await retry(async (bail: Function) => {
+        return await tc.downloadTool('https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json')
+    }, {
+        retries: 5,
+        onRetry: (err: Error) => {
+            core.info(`Download of versions.json failed, trying again. Error: ${err}`)
+        }
+    })
+
+    return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(versionsFile).toString())
+}
+
+/**
+ * @returns An array of all Julia versions available for download
+ */
+export async function getJuliaVersions(versionInfo): Promise<string[]> {
+    let versions: string[] = []
+
+    for (let version in versionInfo) {
+        versions.push(version)
+    }
+
+    return versions
+}
+
+export function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases: string[], versionInput: string, includePrerelease: boolean = false): string {
+    if (semver.valid(versionInput) == versionInput || versionInput.endsWith('nightly')) {
+        // versionInput is a valid version or a nightly version, use it directly
        return versionInput
    }

-    // nightlies
-    if (versionInput == 'nightly') {
-        return 'nightly'
-    }
-
    // Use the highest available version that matches versionInput
-    let version = semver.maxSatisfying(availableReleases, versionInput)
+    let version = semver.maxSatisfying(availableReleases, versionInput, {includePrerelease})
    if (version == null) {
        throw new Error(`Could not find a Julia version that matches ${versionInput}`)
    }
@@ -37,93 +94,208 @@ export function getJuliaVersion(availableReleases: string[], versionInput: strin
    return version
 }

-function getMajorMinorVersion(version: string): string {
-    return version.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.')
-}
+function getDesiredFileExts(): [string, boolean, string] {
+    let fileExt1: string
+    let hasFileExt2: boolean
+    let fileExt2: string

-function getDownloadURL(version: string, arch: string): string {
-    let platform: string
-
-    if (osPlat === 'win32') { // Windows
-        platform = 'winnt'
-    } else if (osPlat === 'darwin') { // macOS
-        if (arch == 'x86') {
-            throw new Error('32-bit Julia is not available on macOS')
-        }
-        platform = 'mac'
-    } else if (osPlat === 'linux') { // Linux
-        platform = 'linux'
+    if (osPlat == 'win32') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz'
+        hasFileExt2 = true
+        fileExt2 = 'exe'
+    } else if (osPlat == 'darwin') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz'
+        hasFileExt2 = true
+        fileExt2 = 'dmg'
+    } else if (osPlat === 'linux') {
+        fileExt1 = 'tar.gz'
+        hasFileExt2 = false
+        fileExt2 = ''
    } else {
        throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`)
    }

-    // nightlies
-    if (version == 'nightly') {
-        const baseURL = 'https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin'
-        return `${baseURL}/${platform}/${arch}/${getFileName('latest', arch)}`
-    }
-
-    // normal versions
-    const baseURL = 'https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin'
-    const versionDir = getMajorMinorVersion(version)
-
-    return `${baseURL}/${platform}/${arch}/${versionDir}/${getFileName(version, arch)}`
+    return [fileExt1, hasFileExt2, fileExt2]
 }

-function getFileName(version: string, arch: string): string {
-    let versionExt: string, ext: string
+function getNightlyFileName(arch: string): string {
+    let versionExt: string
+    let fileExt1: string
+    [fileExt1, , ] = getDesiredFileExts()

-    if (osPlat === 'win32') { // Windows
+    if (osPlat == 'win32') {
        versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-win64' : '-win32'
-        ext = 'exe'
-    } else if (osPlat === 'darwin') { // macOS
+    } else if (osPlat == 'darwin') {
        if (arch == 'x86') {
            throw new Error('32-bit Julia is not available on macOS')
        }
        versionExt = '-mac64'
-        ext = 'dmg'
-    } else if (osPlat === 'linux') { // Linux
-        if (version == 'latest') { // nightly version
-            versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux64' : '-linux32'
-        } else {
-            versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux-x86_64' : '-linux-i686'
-        }
-        ext = 'tar.gz'
+    } else if (osPlat === 'linux') {
+        versionExt = arch == 'x64' ? '-linux64' : '-linux32'
    } else {
        throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`)
    }

-    return `julia-${version}${versionExt}.${ext}`
+    return `julia-latest${versionExt}.${fileExt1}`
 }

-export async function installJulia(version: string, arch: string): Promise<string> {
+export function getFileInfo(versionInfo, version: string, arch: string) {
+    const err = `Could not find ${archMap[arch]}/${version} binaries`
+
+    let fileExt1: string
+    let hasFileExt2: boolean
+    let fileExt2: string
+    [fileExt1, hasFileExt2, fileExt2] = getDesiredFileExts()
+
+    if (version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+        return null
+    }
+
+    if (!versionInfo[version]) {
+       throw err
+    }
+
+    for (let file of versionInfo[version].files) {
+        if (file.os == osMap[osPlat] && file.arch == archMap[arch]) {
+            if (file.extension == fileExt1) {
+                return file
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (hasFileExt2) {
+        core.debug(`Could not find ${fileExt1}; trying to find ${fileExt2} instead`)
+        for (let file of versionInfo[version].files) {
+            if (file.os == osMap[osPlat] && file.arch == archMap[arch]) {
+                if (file.extension == fileExt2) {
+                    return file
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    throw err
+}
+
+export function getDownloadURL(fileInfo, version: string, arch: string): string {
+    const baseURL = `https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/${osMap[osPlat]}/${arch}`
+
+    // release branch nightlies, e.g. 1.6-nightlies should return .../bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz
+    const majorMinorMatches = /^(\d*.\d*)-nightly/.exec(version)
+    if (majorMinorMatches) {
+        return `${baseURL}/${majorMinorMatches[1]}/${getNightlyFileName(arch)}`
+    }
+
+    // nightlies
+    if (version == 'nightly') {
+        return `${baseURL}/${getNightlyFileName(arch)}`
+    }
+
+    // Verify that fileInfo.url points at the official Julia download servers
+    if (!fileInfo.url.startsWith('https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/')) {
+        throw new Error(`versions.json points at a download location outside of Julia's download server: ${fileInfo.url}. Aborting for security reasons.`)
+    }
+    return fileInfo.url
+}
+
+export async function installJulia(dest: string, versionInfo, version: string, arch: string): Promise<string> {
    // Download Julia
-    const downloadURL = getDownloadURL(version, arch)
+    const fileInfo = getFileInfo(versionInfo, version, arch)
+    const downloadURL = getDownloadURL(fileInfo, version, arch)
    core.debug(`downloading Julia from ${downloadURL}`)
-    const juliaDownloadPath = await tc.downloadTool(downloadURL)
+
+    // Occasionally the connection is reset for unknown reasons
+    // In those cases, retry the download
+    const juliaDownloadPath = await retry(async (bail: Function) => {
+        return await tc.downloadTool(downloadURL)
+    }, {
+        retries: 5,
+        onRetry: (err: Error) => {
+            core.info(`Download of ${downloadURL} failed, trying again. Error: ${err}`)
+        }
+    })
+
+    // Verify checksum
+    if (!version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+        const checkSum = await calculateChecksum(juliaDownloadPath)
+        if (fileInfo.sha256 != checkSum) {
+            throw new Error(`Checksum of downloaded file does not match the expected checksum from versions.json.\nExpected: ${fileInfo.sha256}\nGot: ${checkSum}`)
+        }
+        core.debug(`Checksum of downloaded file matches expected checksum: ${checkSum}`)
+    } else {
+        core.debug('Skipping checksum check for nightly binaries.')
+    }

    // Install it
    switch (osPlat) {
        case 'linux':
            // tc.extractTar doesn't support stripping components, so we have to call tar manually
-            await exec.exec('mkdir', [`${process.env.HOME}/julia`])
-            await exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', `${process.env.HOME}/julia`])
-            return `${process.env.HOME}/julia`
+            await exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', dest])
+            return dest
        case 'win32':
-            const juliaInstallationPath = path.join('C:', 'Julia')
-            if (version == 'nightly' || semver.gtr(version, '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})) {
-                // The installer changed in 1.4: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/ef0c9108b12f3ae177c51037934351ffa703b0b5/NEWS.md#build-system-changes
-                await exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/SILENT /dir=${juliaInstallationPath}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`])
+            if (fileInfo !== null && fileInfo.extension == 'exe') {
+                if (version.endsWith('nightly') || semver.gtr(version, '1.3', {includePrerelease: true})) {
+                    // The installer changed in 1.4: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/ef0c9108b12f3ae177c51037934351ffa703b0b5/NEWS.md#build-system-changes
+                    await exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/SILENT /dir=${path.join(process.cwd(), dest)}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`])
+                } else {
+                    await exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/S /D=${path.join(process.cwd(), dest)}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`])
+                }
            } else {
-                await exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `Start-Process -FilePath ${juliaDownloadPath} -ArgumentList "/S /D=${juliaInstallationPath}" -NoNewWindow -Wait`])
+                // This is the more common path. Using .tar.gz is much faster
+                await exec.exec('powershell', ['-Command', `tar xf ${juliaDownloadPath} --strip-components=1 -C ${dest}`])
            }
-            return juliaInstallationPath
+            return dest
        case 'darwin':
-            await exec.exec('hdiutil', ['attach', juliaDownloadPath])
-            await exec.exec('mkdir', [`${process.env.HOME}/julia`])
-            await exec.exec('/bin/bash', ['-c', `cp -a /Volumes/Julia-*/Julia-*.app/Contents/Resources/julia ${process.env.HOME}`])
-            return `${process.env.HOME}/julia`
+            if (fileInfo !== null && fileInfo.extension == 'dmg') {
+                core.debug(`Support for .dmg files is deprecated and may be removed in a future release`)
+                await exec.exec('hdiutil', ['attach', juliaDownloadPath])
+                await exec.exec('/bin/bash', ['-c', `cp -a /Volumes/Julia-*/Julia-*.app/Contents/Resources/julia ${dest}`])
+                return path.join(dest, 'julia')
+            } else {
+                // tc.extractTar doesn't support stripping components, so we have to call tar manually
+                await exec.exec('tar', ['xf', juliaDownloadPath, '--strip-components=1', '-C', dest])
+                return dest
+            }
        default:
            throw new Error(`Platform ${osPlat} is not supported`)
    }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Test if Julia has been installed and print the version.
+ *
+ * true => always show versioninfo
+ * false => only show on nightlies
+ * never => never show it anywhere
+ *
+ * @param showVersionInfoInput
+ */
+export async function showVersionInfo(showVersionInfoInput: string, version: string): Promise<void> {
+    // --compile=min -O0 reduces the time from ~1.8-1.9s to ~0.8-0.9s
+    let exitCode: number
+
+    switch (showVersionInfoInput) {
+        case 'true':
+            exitCode = await exec.exec('julia', ['--compile=min', '-O0', '-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()'])
+            break
+
+        case 'false':
+            if (version.endsWith('nightly')) {
+                exitCode = await exec.exec('julia', ['--compile=min', '-O0', '-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()'])
+            } else {
+                exitCode = await exec.exec('julia', ['--version'])
+            }
+            break
+
+        case 'never':
+            exitCode = await exec.exec('julia', ['--version'])
+            break
+
+        default:
+            throw new Error(`${showVersionInfoInput} is not a valid value for show-versioninfo. Supported values: true | false | never`)
+    }
+
+    if (exitCode !== 0) {
+        throw new Error(`Julia could not be installed properly. Exit code: ${exitCode}`)
+    }
+}
--- a/src/setup-julia.ts
+++ b/src/setup-julia.ts
@@ -2,45 +2,103 @@ import * as core from '@actions/core'
 import * as exec from '@actions/exec'
 import * as tc from '@actions/tool-cache'

+import * as fs from 'fs'
+import * as https from 'https'
 import * as path from 'path'

 import * as installer from './installer'

+const archSynonyms = {
+    'x86': 'x86',
+    'X86': 'x86',
+    'x64': 'x64',
+    'X64': 'x64',
+    'aarch64': 'aarch64',
+    'ARM64': 'aarch64',
+    'arm64': 'aarch64'
+}
+
 async function run() {
    try {
+        // Debugging info
+        if (core.isDebug()) {
+            // Log Runner IP Address
+            https.get('https://httpbin.julialang.org/ip', resp => {
+                let data = ''
+
+                resp.on('data', chunk => {
+                    data += chunk
+                })
+
+                resp.on('end', () => {
+                    core.debug(`Runner IP address: ${JSON.parse(data).origin}`)
+                })
+            }).on('error', err => {
+                core.debug(`ERROR: Could not retrieve runner IP: ${err}`)
+            })
+        }
+
+        // Inputs
        const versionInput = core.getInput('version')
-        const arch = core.getInput('arch')
-        const availableReleases = installer.juliaVersions
-        const version = installer.getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput)
+        const includePrereleases = core.getInput('include-all-prereleases') == 'true'
+        const originalArchInput = core.getInput('arch')
+
+        // It can easily happen that, for example, a workflow file contains an input `version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}`
+        // while the strategy matrix only contains a key `${{ matrix.version }}`.
+        // In that case, we want the action to fail, rather than trying to download julia from an URL that's missing parts and 404ing.
+        // We _could_ fall back to the default but that means that builds silently do things differently than they're meant to, which
+        // is worse than failing the build.
+        if (!versionInput) {
+            throw new Error('Version input must not be null')
+        }
+        if (!originalArchInput) {
+            throw new Error(`Arch input must not be null`)
+        }
+
+        const arch = archSynonyms[originalArchInput]
+
+        const versionInfo = await installer.getJuliaVersionInfo()
+        const availableReleases = await installer.getJuliaVersions(versionInfo)
+        const version = installer.getJuliaVersion(availableReleases, versionInput, includePrereleases)
        core.debug(`selected Julia version: ${arch}/${version}`)
+        core.setOutput('julia-version', version)

        // Search in cache
        let juliaPath: string;
        juliaPath = tc.find('julia', version, arch)

        if (!juliaPath) {
-            core.debug(`could not find Julia ${version} in cache`)
-            const juliaInstallationPath = await installer.installJulia(version, arch);
+            core.debug(`could not find Julia ${arch}/${version} in cache`)
+
+            // https://github.com/julia-actions/setup-julia/pull/196
+            // we want julia to be installed with unmodified file mtimes
+            // but `tc.cacheDir` uses `cp` internally which destroys mtime
+            // and `tc` provides no API to get the tool directory alone
+            // so hack it by installing a empty directory then use the path it returns
+            // and extract the archives directly to that location
+            const emptyDir = fs.mkdtempSync('empty')
+            juliaPath = await tc.cacheDir(emptyDir, 'julia', version, arch)
+            await installer.installJulia(juliaPath, versionInfo, version, arch)

-            // Add it to cache
-            juliaPath = await tc.cacheDir(juliaInstallationPath, 'julia', version, arch)
            core.debug(`added Julia to cache: ${juliaPath}`)
+
+            // Remove empty dir
+            fs.rmdirSync(emptyDir)
        } else {
            core.debug(`using cached version of Julia: ${juliaPath}`)
        }

        // Add it to PATH
        core.addPath(path.join(juliaPath, 'bin'))
-        
-        // Test if Julia has been installed
-        exec.exec('julia', ['--version'])

-        // If enabled, also show the full version info
-        if (core.getInput('show-versioninfo') == 'true') {
-            exec.exec('julia', ['-e', 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()'])
-        }
+        // Set output
+        core.setOutput('julia-bindir', path.join(juliaPath, 'bin'))
+
+        // Test if Julia has been installed and print the version
+        const showVersionInfoInput = core.getInput('show-versioninfo')
+        await installer.showVersionInfo(showVersionInfoInput, version)
    } catch (error) {
-        core.setFailed(error.message)
+        core.setFailed((error as Error).message)
    }
 }