diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-nodes.yml b/.github/workflows/build-nodes.yml
index fa9f338265..959ffb0991 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-nodes.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-nodes.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           target: wasm32-unknown-unknown
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: build substrate binary
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 0c8665869e..25721837d5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Cargo test
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index fbdb47f6e2..054cfdd429 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           components: rustfmt
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Cargo fmt
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Install cargo-machete
         run: cargo install cargo-machete
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Run clippy
         run: |
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ jobs:
           components: clippy
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Run clippy
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Install cargo-hack
         uses: baptiste0928/cargo-install@v3
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Install 
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Cargo check web features which require wasm32 target.
         run: |
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Check internal documentation links
         run: RUSTDOCFLAGS="--deny rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links" cargo doc --workspace --no-deps --document-private-items
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Install cargo-nextest
         run: cargo install cargo-nextest
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Install cargo-nextest
         run: cargo install cargo-nextest
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Run tests
         uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1.0.3
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: ./.github/workflows/actions/use-nodes
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       - name: Run subxt WASM tests
         run: |
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ jobs:
         run: sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       # Note: We currently do not have a way to run real tests in a `no_std` environment.
       # We can only make sure that they compile to ARM thumb ISA.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-artifacts.yml b/.github/workflows/update-artifacts.yml
index 1e621ad843..97b34d8da3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update-artifacts.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-artifacts.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
           override: true
 
       - name: Rust Cache
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@9d47c6ad4b02e050fd481d890b2ea34778fd09d6 # v2.7.8
+        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@f13886b937689c021905a6b90929199931d60db1 # v2.8.1
 
       # This starts a substrate node and runs a few subxt cli child processes to fetch metadata from it and generate code.
       # In particular it generates: