diff --git a/.github/workflows/autotools-macos.yml b/.github/workflows/autotools-macos.yml
index 3cb8e30178..4d0bca2e24 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/autotools-macos.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/autotools-macos.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: macos-latest-clang-autotools, os: macos-latest, cxx: clang++ }
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: macos-latest-clang-autotools, os: macos-latest, cxx: clang++ }
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/autotools-openmp.yml b/.github/workflows/autotools-openmp.yml
index 5f54248079..8af5e113c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/autotools-openmp.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/autotools-openmp.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: 22.04-openmp, os: ubuntu-22.04 }
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/autotools.yml b/.github/workflows/autotools.yml
index 47839552b4..b612c3073e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/autotools.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/autotools.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: ubuntu-22.04-gcc-11-autotools, os: ubuntu-22.04, cxx: g++-11 } #installed
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmake-win64.yml b/.github/workflows/cmake-win64.yml
index 4681ca469a..589ef89e46 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmake-win64.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmake-win64.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: ilammy/setup-nasm@v1
       - uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
       - name: "Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )"
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - run: git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmake.yml b/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
index e85b5fd629..55d499ef12 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
         if: runner.os == 'macOS'
 
       - name: Checkout Source
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
              submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
index b4846fd10c..b385d0fd01 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repository
-      uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/installer-for-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/installer-for-windows.yml
index 10e19c2450..4f4261e31a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/installer-for-windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/installer-for-windows.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
   build64:
     runs-on: [ubuntu-24.04]
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
     - name: Build Tesseract installer (64 bit)
       run: nsis/build.sh x86_64
     - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/msys2.yml b/.github/workflows/msys2.yml
index 1024bc9e1c..3728b1c5e2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/msys2.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/msys2.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
       run:
         shell: msys2 {0}
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
     - uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sw.yml b/.github/workflows/sw.yml
index 9053361e0b..d202dd5a74 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sw.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sw.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-22.04'
       run: sudo dnf -y install cmake gcc lld which flex bison clang clang-tools-extra git
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
     - uses: egorpugin/sw-action@master
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittest-disablelegacy.yml b/.github/workflows/unittest-disablelegacy.yml
index 650d67f258..7d10410bb4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittest-disablelegacy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittest-disablelegacy.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
         os: [ ubuntu-24.04 ]
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittest-macos.yml b/.github/workflows/unittest-macos.yml
index 564e8ddd2b..2e816af103 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittest-macos.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittest-macos.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: macos-latest-gcc-unittest, os: macos-latest, cxx: g++ }
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
index 72138a3dcd..8d0d01b9b3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           - { name: ubuntu-24.04-gcc-unittest, os: ubuntu-24.04, cxx: g++, cxxflags: '-g -O2 -fsanitize=address,undefined' }
           - { name: ubuntu-22.04-clang-unittest, os: ubuntu-22.04, cxx: clang++, cxxflags: '-g -O2 -fsanitize=address,undefined -stdlib=libc++' }
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with:
         submodules: recursive
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/vcpkg.yml b/.github/workflows/vcpkg.yml
index 11a0e16883..92696169c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vcpkg.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vcpkg.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Tesseract Source (--head from main branch)
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           submodules: recursive