diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-build-test.yml b/.github/workflows/check-build-test.yml
index fc5f4862..d1f65f12 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-build-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-build-test.yml
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           # we don't know what commit the last tag was it's safer to get entire repo so previousStableVersion resolves
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
@@ -55,9 +56,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
@@ -83,9 +85,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
@@ -121,9 +124,10 @@ jobs:
           - { java-version: 11, scala-version: 3.3, sbt-opts: '-J-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -J-XX:+UseJVMCICompiler' }
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
@@ -153,9 +157,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
@@ -184,9 +189,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Checkout GitHub merge
         if: github.event.pull_request
diff --git a/.github/workflows/format.yml b/.github/workflows/format.yml
index 16f35978..163b3ed5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/format.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/format.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout current branch (full)
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/headers.yml b/.github/workflows/headers.yml
index 2559d2e9..036dfb5a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/headers.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/headers.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Setup Java 11
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml b/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
index c9f92c55..fa64a20a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/link-validator.yml
@@ -13,15 +13,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          # See https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/299#issuecomment-677674415
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          fetch-depth: 100
-
-      # temporarily disable git tag fetch (it fails because there are no tags)
-      #- name: Fetch tags
-      #  run: git fetch --depth=100 origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Setup Java 8
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-1.0-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-1.0-docs.yml
index 5cce4b59..97192551 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-1.0-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-1.0-docs.yml
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ jobs:
     if: github.repository == 'apache/incubator-pekko-connectors-kafka'
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Setup Java 8
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-nightly.yml
index 71f472ca..b5a1838a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-nightly.yml
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ jobs:
     if: github.repository == 'apache/incubator-pekko-connectors-kafka'
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Setup Java 8
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3