diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
index 0b6680e266..fa9c5fa51e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell-private.yml
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ jobs:
           - 3.9
     name: Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} test
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Setup python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - run: sudo apt-get install libaspell-dev aspell-en
@@ -41,9 +41,11 @@ jobs:
   make-check-dictionaries:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Setup Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.x
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Install general dependencies
         run: pip install -U pip wheel # upgrade to latest pip find 3.5 wheels; wheel to avoid errors
       - name: Install codespell dependencies
@@ -54,6 +56,6 @@ jobs:
   flake8-annotation:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Flake8 with annotations
         uses: TrueBrain/actions-flake8@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
index e3a064a1fb..32bfc59f2d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Check for spelling errors
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@master
         with:
           check_filenames: true