diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ace878e58..598c51057 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -33,20 +33,20 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
+          package-manager-cache: false # pnpm is not installed yet
       - name: install pnpm
         shell: bash
         run: |
           PNPM_VER=$(jq -r '.packageManager | if .[0:5] == "pnpm@" then .[5:] else "packageManager in package.json does not start with pnpm@\n" | halt_error(1)  end' package.json)
           echo installing pnpm version $PNPM_VER
           npm i -g pnpm@$PNPM_VER
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
-          cache: 'pnpm'
-          cache-dependency-path: '**/pnpm-lock.yaml'
+          package-manager-cache: true # caches pnpm via packageManager field in package.json
       - name: install
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --prefer-offline --ignore-scripts
       - name: sync
@@ -101,20 +101,21 @@ jobs:
             svelte: 'current'
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
+          package-manager-cache: false # pnpm is not installed yet
       - name: install pnpm
         shell: bash
         run: |
           PNPM_VER=$(jq -r '.packageManager | if .[0:5] == "pnpm@" then .[5:] else "packageManager in package.json does not start with pnpm@\n" | halt_error(1)  end' package.json)
           echo installing pnpm version $PNPM_VER
           npm i -g pnpm@$PNPM_VER
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
-          cache: 'pnpm'
-          cache-dependency-path: '**/pnpm-lock.yaml'
+          package-manager-cache: true # caches pnpm via packageManager field in package.json
       - name: install
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts
       - name: downgrade vite to baseline
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b400bb29b..7bee3e277 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -27,20 +27,20 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # This makes Actions fetch all Git history so that Changesets can generate changelogs with the correct commits
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
+          package-manager-cache: false # pnpm is not installed yet
       - name: install pnpm
         shell: bash
         run: |
           PNPM_VER=$(jq -r '.packageManager | if .[0:5] == "pnpm@" then .[5:] else "packageManager in package.json does not start with pnpm@\n" | halt_error(1)  end' package.json)
           echo installing pnpm version $PNPM_VER
           npm i -g pnpm@$PNPM_VER
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
-          cache: 'pnpm'
-          cache-dependency-path: '**/pnpm-lock.yaml'
+          package-manager-cache: true # caches pnpm via packageManager field in package.json
       - name: install
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --prefer-offline --ignore-scripts
       - name: generated types are up to date