diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index 025eada2..b6cef829 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ jobs:
     name: run tests from packaged source
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: 3.x
       - name: test
         run: |
           python setup.py sdist
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
         # any additional builds for windows and macos
         # handled via `include` to avoid an over-large test matrix
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ["2.7", "3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11-dev", "pypy-2.7", "pypy-3.7"]
+        python-version: ["2.7", "3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11-dev", "pypy-2.7", "pypy-3.8"]
         include:
           - os: windows-latest
             python-version: "2.7"
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ jobs:
     name: "python=${{ matrix.python-version }} os=${{ matrix.os }}"
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: install tox
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-on-downstream-projects.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-on-downstream-projects.yaml
index 90c63a96..17ae4dac 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-on-downstream-projects.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-on-downstream-projects.yaml
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.x
       - run: python -m pip install tox
       - name: build
         run: make build
       - name: upload latest builds
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: latest-build
           path: dist/*
@@ -34,13 +36,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - run: git clone "https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/" .
       - name: download sdist build
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: latest-build
           path: nose2-build
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: "3.9"
+          python-version: 3.x
       - run: python -m pip install tox
       - name: setup testenv
         run: tox -e py-nocov --devenv testenv