GitHub Actions now supports self-hosted runners. Hosting your own runners offers maximum flexibility and control of your workflows. Self-host your runners if you need a proprietary image or container, access to on-prem resources, or a more powerful machine. Learn more about using self-hosted runners with your workflows here.
On November 4th, the macOS virtual environment for GitHub Actions will update to Catalina (v10.15), the latest version of macOS X. After the update, jobs using the macos-10.14 virtual environment will not run. Any jobs in your workflows that run on the macos-10.14 virtual environment must migrate to macos-latest.
We’re also making a few changes to the minimum supported versions of Xamarin and Xcode. Changes include:
- Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 12.*
- Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 11.*
- Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 10.*
- Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 9.*
- Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 8.*
- Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 7.*
- Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 5.*
- Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 4.*
- Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 3.*
- Removed Xcode 10.*
- Removed Xcode 9.*
To learn more about the different virtual environments and included software, please read Virtual Environments for GitHub Actions. Please contact GitHub Support if you run into any problems or need help.
GitHub Actions are triggered by webhook events. The original payload of the event is stored in a file that actions can read at workflow/event.json (see the docs). We’ve made a slight change to the payload for push events in Actions. The following attributes have been removed from the commits section of push payloads for Actions:
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These diffs can instead be requested using the API https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#get-a-single-commit.