diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly-acceptance.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly-acceptance.yml
index a67f2ef0..036eaf41 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly-acceptance.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly-acceptance.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ jobs:
     name: Build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: '^1.21'
       - run: make test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/notify-pr.yml b/.github/workflows/notify-pr.yml
index dc1756d9..3f0a9d1a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/notify-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/notify-pr.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Pull Request Notification
     steps:
-      - run: |
-          echo "{\"text\":\"Packer: PR https://github.com/vultr/packer-builder-vultr/pull/${{ github.event.number }} \"}" > mattermost.json
       - uses: mattermost/action-mattermost-notify@2.0.0
         with:
           MATTERMOST_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_WEBHOOK_URL }}
           MATTERMOST_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_USERNAME}}
           MATTERMOST_ICON: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_ICON }}
+          TEXT: "${{ github.repository }} : PR https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/pull/${{ github.event.number }}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 255f4805..d6ad11c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       new_tag: ${{ steps.tagger.outputs.new_tag }}
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         fetch-depth: '0'
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Unshallow
         run: git fetch --prune --unshallow
       - name: Set up Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: "1.21"
       - name: Describe plugin
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
           gpg_private_key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           passphrase: ${{ secrets.PASSPHRASE }}
       - name: Run GoReleaser
-        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v2
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v5
         with:
           version: latest
           args: release --rm-dist
@@ -70,10 +70,9 @@ jobs:
           GPG_FINGERPRINT: ${{ steps.import_gpg.outputs.fingerprint }}
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           API_VERSION: ${{ steps.plugin_describe.outputs.api_version }}
-      - run: |
-          echo "{\"text\":\"Packer : Release https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/releases/tag/${{ needs.create-tag.outputs.new_tag }} \"}" > mattermost.json
       - uses: mattermost/action-mattermost-notify@2.0.0
         with:
           MATTERMOST_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_WEBHOOK_URL }}
           MATTERMOST_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_USERNAME}}
           MATTERMOST_ICON: ${{ secrets.MATTERMOST_ICON }}
+          TEXT: "${{ github.repository }} : Release https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/releases/tag/${{ needs.create-tag.outputs.new_tag }}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index eeaf2b12..f543ad3b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
 
       - name: Set up Go 1.21
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: "1.21"
         id: go
 
       - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Build
         run: make test
         env: