diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 96bee0b..a3bb307 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       # Third-party actions are pinned by SHA, with the tag in a trailing
       # comment so the version is still readable. A tag is a moving reference:
       # whoever can move it can run code in this job.
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
 
       # mise rather than setup-go, so every repository in the fleet installs its
       # toolchain the same way. The cost is that the Go version now lives in
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index d613a23..3e6126e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write # OIDC identity for build provenance
       attestations: write # record the provenance attestation
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
           # The version arithmetic below reads the tag history. A shallow clone
           # does not have it.