diff --git a/.github/workflows/e3sm-gh-pages.yml b/.github/workflows/e3sm-gh-pages.yml
index dec9bc696bf..cd4fc55b2a8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e3sm-gh-pages.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e3sm-gh-pages.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Show action trigger
         run: echo "= The job was automatically triggered by a ${{github.event_name}} event on repo ${{github.event.repository.name}}."
       - name: Set up Python 3.11
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Install python deps