The workflows pin `runs-on: ubuntu-NN.NN`, so no job moves to a new Ubuntu
release behind our back, but nothing raised the pin either. A sixth job of
`🔄 Update versions` closes that: `utils/update/runner.py` reads the image
table of actions/runner-images, takes the newest x64 Ubuntu label whose
image carries no preview or beta badge, and raises every older bare
`runs-on: ubuntu-NN.NN` to it; arch-suffixed labels stay untouched. The job
opens the change as one PR over `.github/workflows`, so its CI run tests
the new image before it reaches main.
This commit carries the updater's first result: every job now runs on
ubuntu-26.04 (49 `runs-on`).
actionlint 1.7.12, the newest release, does not know `ubuntu-26.04` yet
(rhysd/actionlint#682, fix proposed in rhysd/actionlint#743), so
`.github/actionlint.yaml` declares the label until a release knows it.
act maps each `ubuntu-NN.NN` label the workflows use to the local platform
image, derived from `.github/workflows`, instead of a fixed list that did
not know ubuntu-26.04.
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`ubuntu-latest` moved from ubuntu-24.04 to ubuntu-26.04 on its own
schedule, in the middle of run 39166850273, and every job that landed on
the new image met a different OS: sudo-rs instead of sudo, no ip_tables
loaded, and now the NFS probe-write of svc-storage-nfs-client failing on
26.04 swarm nodes. The same branch went red without a code change.
Every `runs-on` now names `ubuntu-24.04`. GitHub still rebuilds that image
weekly, so patches and tool updates keep arriving; only the release jump
becomes a deliberate change of the label. The CodeQL job drops its dead
swift/macos-latest branch, since no swift language is in its matrix. act
already maps ubuntu-24.04 to the local platform image.
A lint rejects any job whose `runs-on` contains a `*-latest` label.
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Closing a PR left "Cancel: PR Runs on Close" (run 36385268627) on
pending for hours. The canceller joins the PR orchestrator's
concurrency group, so GitHub cancelled the orchestrator run within a
second. But a cancel re-evaluates the job-level if: of every live job
and spares each one whose condition still holds. The deploy chunks
started with always(), which always holds: test-workspace died at
06:11:59, while Chunk 0 kept deploying and its ~60 queued matrix jobs
kept waiting for runners. The group stays occupied until the occupant
is terminal, so the canceller parked behind the very run it had
already cancelled.
The chunks, test-runner-smoke, the fork-prereqs gate and the release
job now guard with !cancelled(). Outside a cancel it matches always():
they still run after a failed or skipped need. On a cancel it turns
false and the job is cancelled with the run.
done and report-main-failures keep always(). They exist to report a
cancelled run, and a done skipped on cancel would count as a passing
required check.
The new lint walks every workflow whose concurrency cancels in
progress, plus everything it calls transitively, and rejects a
job-level always() outside that allowlist. It found the release job,
which a line-based grep had missed. It also fails when an allowlisted
job stops needing the exemption, and when its scope no longer reaches
the deploy workflows, so it cannot go silently empty. Against the
pre-fix tree it reports all six offenders.
Behaviour change: manually cancelling a release run now stops the
retag too. cron-release-highest re-dispatches the release.
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Two scripts sharing a delimiter-bounded name prefix are a folder in disguise, and tests/lint/repository/structure/test_prefix_grouped_files.py refuses them. A second release_* resolver is coming, so give the group its directory now and drop the prefix from the name.
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An input description is what an operator reads in the dispatch form, one line
per input, exactly like a job or step name -- and it was drifting the other
way: eighteen of them opened with a bare word where every name in this
repository opens with an emoji, and sixteen ran past the line, the longest at
382 characters explaining four tor values inside a form field.
The descriptions now say what the input is; the workflow README says what the
values do. It gains the selection-token syntax and a table of the four tor
values, which is where a paragraph belongs when it outgrows its form field.
workflow_call inputs are left alone. They are wiring between workflows and are
rendered for nobody.
Two explanations did not survive the cut and are worth knowing: the mirror
cleanup no longer warns that the default GITHUB_TOKEN may lack the
delete:packages scope, and the workspace track no longer spells out that
'rotate' flips with the run number.
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Every write scope sat at workflow level, so it reached each job in the file: entry-push-latest handed contents, packages, actions, security-events and issues write to all eight of its jobs, and call-orchestrator to all twenty-four, including every deploy and test job of the 134-job runs. The scopes now sit on the jobs that push, release or upload SARIF.
call-test-workspace, -install-make and -install-pkgmgr declared actions: write with no consumer at all, while passing the raw GITHUB_TOKEN into containers that start from mutable public tags and mount the docker socket. cron-cleanup-stale gave packages: write over the whole namespace to two jobs running third-party JavaScript that never touch a registry.
Eight single-job workflows are deliberately left alone: their one job needs the scope, so moving it produces an identical effective token while risking a job block that silently replaces contents: read. A check across every uses: edge confirms no callee now declares more than its caller grants.
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The workflow directory mixed entry points, reusable stages and scheduled jobs into one flat list sorted by topic, so the first question about any file - what starts it - was the one the name did not answer. Every workflow now carries one of three prefixes, derived from its on: block: cron- for a schedule trigger, call- for one only reachable through workflow_call, entry- for everything a repository event or a human starts. Scheduled workflows additionally carry an alarm clock as the first character of their name.
Two lints keep it that way. One derives the expected prefix from the triggers and compares it against the file name; it flagged all 17 offenders before the rename and none after. The other resolves every .github/workflows/<file> string in the repository against the directory, which is what a rename silently breaks in Markdown links, Python constants and shell API URLs alike.
Renaming pulled 69 pre-existing comments into the comment lint's changed-file scope. The vendored CodeQL template got the nocheck marker its scorecard sibling already carried, two workflow headers moved above name: where they count as file headers, and the remaining banners were deleted.
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