Upgrade GHA workflow dependencies

Author: rolodato

.github/workflows/pull_request.yaml

@@ -14,20 +14,14 @@ jobs:
   build-and-test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Checkout submodules # checkout rest
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          # If your submodules are configured to use SSH instead of HTTPS please uncomment the following line
-          git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:"
-          auth_header="$(git config --local --get http.https://github.com/.extraheader)"
-          git submodule sync --recursive
-          git -c "http.extraheader=$auth_header" -c protocol.version=2 submodule update --init --force --recursive --depth=1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: "18.x"
       - name: cache node modules
-        uses: actions/cache@v1
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
         with:
           path: ~/.npm # npm cache files are stored in `~/.npm` on Linux/macOS
           key: npm-${{ hashFiles('package-lock.json') }}