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CodeQL Action Changelog

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.

[UNRELEASED]

• Upcoming breaking change: Add support for using actions/download-artifact@v4 to programmatically consume CodeQL Action debug artifacts.

  Starting November 30, 2024, GitHub.com customers will no longer be able to use actions/download-artifact@v3. Therefore, to avoid breakage, customers who programmatically download the CodeQL Action debug artifacts should set the CODEQL_ACTION_ARTIFACT_V4_UPGRADE environment variable to true and bump actions/download-artifact@v3 to actions/download-artifact@v4 in their workflows. The CodeQL Action will enable this behavior by default in early November and workflows that have not yet bumped to actions/download-artifact@v3 to actions/download-artifact@v4 will begin failing then.

  This change is currently unavailable for GitHub Enterprise Server customers, as actions/upload-artifact@v4 and actions/download-artifact@v4 are not yet compatible with GHES.

3.26.10 - 30 Sep 2024

• We are rolling out a feature in September/October 2024 that sets up CodeQL using a bundle compressed with Zstandard. Our aim is to improve the performance of setting up CodeQL. #2502

3.26.9 - 24 Sep 2024

No user facing changes.

3.26.8 - 19 Sep 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.19.0. #2483

3.26.7 - 13 Sep 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.18.4. #2471

3.26.6 - 29 Aug 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.18.3. #2449

3.26.5 - 23 Aug 2024

• Fix an issue where the csrutil system call used for telemetry would fail on MacOS ARM machines with System Integrity Protection disabled. #2441

3.26.4 - 21 Aug 2024

• Deprecation: The add-snippets input on the analyze Action is deprecated and will be removed in the first release in August 2025. #2436
• Fix an issue where the disk usage system call used for telemetry would fail on MacOS ARM machines with System Integrity Protection disabled, and then surface a warning. The system call is now disabled for these machines. #2434

3.26.3 - 19 Aug 2024

• Fix an issue where the CodeQL Action could not write diagnostic messages on Windows. This issue did not impact analysis quality. #2430

3.26.2 - 14 Aug 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.18.2. #2417

3.26.1 - 13 Aug 2024

No user facing changes.

3.26.0 - 06 Aug 2024

• Deprecation: Swift analysis on Ubuntu runner images is no longer supported. Please migrate to a macOS runner if this affects you. #2403
• Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.5. #2408

3.25.15 - 26 Jul 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.18.1. #2385

3.25.14 - 25 Jul 2024

• Experimental: add a new start-proxy action which starts the same HTTP proxy as used by github/dependabot-action. Do not use this in production as it is part of an internal experiment and subject to change at any time. #2376

3.25.13 - 19 Jul 2024

• Add codeql-version to outputs. #2368
• Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.13.4 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 9 July 2024 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9, and will be unsupported by CodeQL Action versions 3.26.0 and later and versions 2.26.0 and later. #2375
  • If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.13.5 or later. For instance, if you have specified a custom version of the CLI using the 'tools' input to the 'init' Action, you can remove this input to use the default version.
  • Alternatively, if you want to continue using a version of the CodeQL CLI between 2.12.6 and 2.13.4, you can replace github/codeql-action/*@v3 by github/codeql-action/*@v3.25.13 and github/codeql-action/*@v2 by github/codeql-action/*@v2.25.13 in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.

3.25.12 - 12 Jul 2024

• Improve the reliability and performance of analyzing code when analyzing a compiled language with the autobuild build mode on GitHub Enterprise Server. This feature is already available to GitHub.com users. #2353
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.18.0. #2364

3.25.11 - 28 Jun 2024

• Avoid failing the workflow run if there is an error while uploading debug artifacts. #2349
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.6. #2352

3.25.10 - 13 Jun 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.5. #2327

3.25.9 - 12 Jun 2024

• Avoid failing database creation if the database folder already exists and contains some unexpected files. Requires CodeQL 2.18.0 or higher. #2330
• The init Action will attempt to clean up the database cluster directory before creating a new database and at the end of the job. This will help to avoid issues where the database cluster directory is left in an inconsistent state. #2332

3.25.8 - 04 Jun 2024

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.4. #2321

3.25.7 - 31 May 2024

• 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

3.25.5 - 13 May 2024

• Add a compatibility matrix of supported CodeQL Action, CodeQL CLI, and GitHub Enterprise Server versions to the README.md. #2273
• 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 autobuild build 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 ...