This release changes the default behavior of the action to determine which commits are cherry-picked. While this behavior change doesn't necessarily require changes to your workflow, it warrants a major version bump.
Previously, the action cherry-picked the commits from the pull request. Specifically, those reachable from the pull request's head and not reachable from the pull request's base.
From now on, the action cherry-picks the commits based on the method used to merge the pull request by default.
For "Squash and merge", the action cherry-picks the squashed commit.
For "Rebase and merge", the action cherry-picks the rebased commits.
For "Merged as a merge commit", the action cherry-picks the commits from the pull request.
If you previously used the experimental detect_merge_method input, we suggest you remove it from your workflow. This experimental input has been deprecated and replaced by the cherry_picking input.
If you want to return to the previous behavior, you can set the cherry_picking input to pull_request_head.
This behavior was previously available via the experimental detect_merge_method input, introduced in korthout/backport-action#399. Special thanks go out to @jschmid1 for contributing this feature.
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This release also adds two new experimental features. Special shoutouts to @tasso94 and @vermz99 for contributing these!
With the experimental downstream_repo and downstream_owner inputs, you can backport to a repository other than where the workflow runs. For example, when you use a fork to maintain the previously released versions. You can also see this as backporting to a remote repository, but we felt it was better described as backporting to a downstream repository. The default behavior remains that the action always backports to the repository in which the workflow runs.
With the experimental conflict_resolution input, you can now change how the action will handle conflicts during cherry-picking. Set it to draft_commit_conflicts to create a draft pull request with the first conflict encountered committed to reduce some of the manual efforts in backporting. The default behavior stays like before and can be configured explicitly as fail. In that case, the backport fails when the cherry-pick encounters a conflict.
NOTE: if you are using this action within a matrix build and see failures attempting to upload artifacts with duplicate names, you will need to set the artifact-name to be unique based on the matrix properties (an example here). This is due to a change to use a newer GitHub API which no longer allows artifacts with duplicate names.
See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.
Note that the only difference between v2 and v3 of the CodeQL Action is the node version they support, with v3 running on node 20 while we continue to release v2 to support running on node 16. For example 3.22.11 was the first v3 release and is functionally identical to 2.22.11. This approach ensures an easy way to track exactly which features are included in different versions, indicated by the minor and patch version numbers.
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We are rolling out a feature in May/June 2024 that will reduce the Actions cache usage of the Action by keeping only the newest TRAP cache for each language. #2306
3.25.6 - 20 May 2024
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.3. #2295
Avoid printing out a warning for a missing on.push trigger when the CodeQL Action is triggered via a workflow_call event. #2274
The tools: latest input to the init Action has been renamed to tools: linked. This option specifies that the Action should use the tools shipped at the same time as the Action. The old name will continue to work for backwards compatibility, but we recommend that new workflows use the new name. #2281
3.25.4 - 08 May 2024
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.2. #2270
3.25.3 - 25 Apr 2024
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.1. #2247
Workflows running on macos-latest using CodeQL CLI versions before v2.15.1 will need to either upgrade their CLI version to v2.15.1 or newer, or change the platform to an Intel MacOS runner, such as macos-12. ARM machines with SIP disabled, including the newest macos-latest image, are unsupported for CLI versions before 2.15.1. #2261
3.25.2 - 22 Apr 2024
No user facing changes.
3.25.1 - 17 Apr 2024
We are rolling out a feature in April/May 2024 that improves the reliability and performance of analyzing code when analyzing a compiled language with the autobuildbuild mode. #2235
Fix a bug where the init Action would fail if --overwrite was specified in CODEQL_ACTION_EXTRA_OPTIONS. #2245
3.25.0 - 15 Apr 2024
The deprecated feature for extracting dependencies for a Python analysis has been removed. #2224
As a result, the following inputs and environment variables are now ignored:
The setup-python-dependencies input to the init Action
The CODEQL_ACTION_DISABLE_PYTHON_DEPENDENCY_INSTALLATION environment variable
We recommend removing any references to these from your workflows. For more information, see the release notes for CodeQL Action v3.23.0 and v2.23.0.
Automatically overwrite an existing database if found on the filesystem. #2229
Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.6. #2232
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