Bump GitHub Actions to their latest major versions - #261
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request updates GitHub Actions versions across Android build, debug, test, release, snapshot, and NetBird workflows. It also makes Android tool versions configurable and changes snapshot names to include the nearest Git tag. ChangesGitHub Actions updates
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The snapshot build leaves its checkout token readable by later build commands. Disable credential persistence before merging to reduce token exposure without affecting required repository access. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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The upgraded actions’ tags exist and the workflows’ used inputs remain compatible, with the necessary adopt→temurin change applied for setup-java@v6.
Pull request overview
This PR updates the repository’s GitHub Actions workflows (and the shared build-android composite action) to use the latest major versions of the Actions they depend on, keeping CI/release automation current and aligning Java distribution configuration across workflows.
Changes:
- Bumped
actions/checkout, artifact upload/download, Java/Go setup, and cache actions to newer major versions across workflows and the composite action. - Bumped
softprops/action-gh-releaseto v3 for release asset uploads. - Updated
build-debug.yml’s standalone Java setup steps fromdistribution: adopttodistribution: temurinto remain compatible withsetup-java@v6.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/bump-netbird.yml | Updates checkout action version for the netbird submodule bump workflow. |
| .github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml | Updates checkout + artifact upload action versions for snapshot build outputs. |
| .github/workflows/build-release.yml | Updates checkout + release upload action versions for publishing release assets. |
| .github/workflows/build-debug.yml | Updates checkout/setup-java/artifact actions and switches Java distribution to temurin for test jobs. |
| .github/actions/build-android/action.yml | Updates setup-java/setup-go/cache action versions used by the composite Android build action. |
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In @.github/workflows/build-debug.yml:
- Line 20: Update all three checkout steps in the workflow to disable persisted
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actions/checkout v4→v7, upload-artifact v4→v7, download-artifact v4→v8, setup-java v4→v6, setup-go v5→v7, cache v4→v6, action-gh-release v1→v3. setup-java@v6 drops the legacy "adopt" distribution, so build-debug.yml's two direct Setup Java steps move to "temurin" like build-android/action.yml already does.
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- Line 24: Update the actions/checkout step to set persist-credentials to false
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Disable persisted checkout credentials for the snapshot build.
actions/checkout stores the read-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN in the local Git configuration by default. This workflow executes checked-out content through ./.github/actions/build-android, which runs repository scripts and Gradle. That content can read the stored credential. The public netbird submodule and the explicit GH_TOKEN do not require credential persistence.
Disable checkout credential persistence
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# git describe below needs the tags and the history down to the
# nearest release tag; the default shallow clone carries neither.
fetch-depth: 0
submodules: recursive
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[warning] 23-38: credential persistence through GitHub Actions artifacts (artipacked): does not set persist-credentials: false
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In @.github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml at line 24, Update the actions/checkout
step to set persist-credentials to false while preserving its existing
fetch-depth and submodules settings.
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This is my first contribution here, so go easy on me if I've missed something obvious.
Side note, not something I acted on here: all of these (and the ones already in the repo) are pinned to floating major tags like
@v7rather than a full commit SHA. That's the norm for GitHub Actions and probably fine, but it does mean a compromised upstream repo or tag could push different code under the same version without anyone noticing. GitHub's own security hardening guide recommends pinning to a SHA for exactly this reason. Not suggesting a change as part of this PR, just something I noticed while going through all of these and figured was worth flagging.I noticed
build-debug.ymlwas still pinned toactions/upload-artifact@v4and figured it'd be worth bumping the whole set of actions the workflows depend on, not just that one:actions/checkoutv4 → v7actions/upload-artifactv4 → v7actions/download-artifactv4 → v8actions/setup-javav4 → v6actions/setup-gov5 → v7actions/cachev4 → v6softprops/action-gh-releasev1 → v3Something I ran into along the way
setup-java@v6drops the legacyadoptJDK distribution (AdoptOpenJDK's old endpoints were retired back in 2023).build-android/action.ymlhad already hit this and switched totemurin, but the two standalone Setup Java steps inbuild-debug.yml(unit-testsandinstrumented-testsjobs) were still onadoptand would have started failing with this bump. I switched those totemurinas well, matching the existing fix.What I actually checked
Went through each action's changelog for anything that could break these specific workflows. None of it seems to apply here (details in the diff/commit if useful), but I'd rather be upfront that this is reasoning from the changelogs, not exhaustive testing.
Testing
I've run
build-release.ymlandbuild-snapshot.ymlon my fork and both went through fine. I haven't been able to fully exercisebuild-debug.ymlyet (theunit-tests/instrumented-testsjobs specifically)Summary by CodeRabbit