Highlights

Support for Ubuntu 26.04 was added

Details

• Increase version to 7.2.0 [faf9eae]
• Add support for Ubuntu 26.04 [cacfb43]

Highlights

• Debian 11 now uses security updates from the package archive
• Patch versions for Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, and Alpine 3.20 - 3.23 are updated
• Support for Alpine 3.24 was added

Details

• Fix verify-release workflow [2d33ce2]
• Make tests with Debian 13 work again [c2d96e3]
• Adapt to breaking typing change in dependency submission action [61d4c71]
• Downgrade Kotlin to 2.3.10 for Workflow Script execution [d7ad2be]
• Update setup-kotlin_action to v2 [209f715]
• Remove work-around for missing zstd on windows-11-arm runners in tests [150c11a]
• Upgrade Kotlin to 2.4.10 for Workflow Script execution [2b8984b]
• Update github-workflows-kt to 4.0.0 [83cdd9e]
• Remove work-around for Kotlin bug [3a37b24]
• Use more debian archive repositories for archived debian distributions [53a71a7]
• Increase version to 7.1.0 [259c51c]
• Use Debian 11 security updates from package archive [ac90967]
• Update Ubuntu 24.04 version to 24.04.5 [4432217]
• Update Debian 13 version to 1.26.0.0 [b6d7e8f]
• Update Alpine 3.10 version to 3.20.10 [abc15e6]
• Update Alipne 3.21 version to 3.21.8 [af3cc07]
• Update Alpine 3.22 version to 3.22.6 [9dad32c]
• Update Alpine 3.23 version to 3.23.6 [001f9a7]
• Add support for Alpine 3.24 [0d0ffc5]
• Update work-around for actions/toolkit#1925 after actions/exec update changed the code to be replaced [cde7237]
• Update versions Gradle plugin to 0.66.0 [54be1cd]
• Update Kotlin for workflow preprocessing to 2.4.21 [ca22ab5]
• Update Dependency Analysis Gradle plugin to 3.19.2 [3c4e3d7]
• Update common-custom-user-data-gradle-plugin to 2.8.0 [623999b]
• Update Develocity Gradle plugin to 4.6.0 [d3d968e]
• Update release Gradle plugin to 3.2.0 [915c49c]
• Update Kotlin to 2.4.21 [287e496]
• Update kotlin wrappers to 2026.10.0 [61fa597]
• Update kotlinx-coroutines to 1.11.0 [370f6a8]
• Update snakeyaml to 2.7 [93fa162]
• Update Gradle to 9.8.1 [13dfd71]
• Replace abandoned Wooga GitHub Gradle plugin with deprecations by direct GitHub API usage [ddad446]
• Increase version to 7.1.1 [97c7f16]

Breaking Changes

• Updated Node.js to 24 (#83)
• Changed default distributon to Debian-13
• Changed Alpine-3.17 wslId to contain the version
• Changed Ubuntu-20.04 wslId to contain the version
• Changed Ubuntu-22.04 wslId to contain the version
• Removed deprecated Debian distributon
• Removed deprecated Alpine distributon

Details

• Use Debian-11 instead of Debian in tests [953e6c3]
• Increase version to 7.0.0 [efe0179]
• Update Node.js to 24 (#83) [04ef237]
• Change default distributon to Debian-13 [b67c897]
• Remove deprecated Debian [ab5ed27]
• Remove deprecated Alpine [0dc99a1]
• Change Alpine-3.17 wslId to contain the version [4e9c3b1]
• Use wsl-file distribution for Ubuntu 20.04+ [9928f17]
• Change Ubuntu-20.04 and Ubuntu-22.04 wslIds to contain the version [f9577ca]
• Continue tests for specific wrapper script on installation failure [cf87199]

Highlights

• Alpine (3.17) support fixed (#82)
• Debian (11) support fixed (#76)
• Alpine 3.18 - 3.23 support added
• Debian 12 - 13 support added

Deprecations

• Using Alpine is deprecated, Alpine-3.17 is almost a drop-in replacement
• Using Debian explicitly or as default is deprecated, Debian-11 is almost a drop-in replacement

Details

• Fix verify-release workflow generation [6819906]
• Disable testing on Alpine for the time being [1462529]
• Fix apt update on Debian (#76) [6eb7639]
• Update snakeyaml to 2.6 [90a7832]
• Update release Gradle plugin to 3.1.0 [44828e1]
• Update versions Gradle plugin to 0.51.0 [168ff3d]
• Update Wooga GitHub Gradle plugin to 4.0.0 [47d527f]
• Update Grgit to 5.3.3 [6391a34]
• Update Gradle to 8.14.4 [6f851d3]
• Get version update notifications for refresh versions plugin [01972ad]
• Update refreshVersions Gradle plugin to 0.60.6 [b00071d]
• Update github-api to 1.330 [b38a1f9]
• Update Dependency Analysis Gradle plugin to 3.1.0 [25def4e]
• Update Gradle to 9.4.1 [0f597b6]
• Allow newer wrapper versions in validateGradleWrapperJar [0e1d30d]
• Update versions Gradle plugin to 0.53.0 [8632db7]
• Update Dependency Analysis Gradle plugin to 3.6.1 [df43e2e]
• Update kotlinx-serialization to 1.10.0 [0261a4f]
• Update Kotlin for workflow preprocessing to 2.3.20 [685f117]
• Increase daemon max heap [f103acb]
• Update Kotlin to 2.3.20 [7bab382]
• Remove obsolete ktor work-around [857582f]
• Update ktor to 3.4.2 [b0a9492]
• Remove obsolete IDE helper comments [14f968f]
• Update github-workflows-kt to 3.7.0 [2a205c6]
• Update actions/checkout to v6 [9e3e4a6]
• Update gradle/actions to v6 [0507b3e]
• Update actions/cache to v5 [f96ebd2]
• Update actions/setup-java to v5 [e491558]
• Update kotlin wrappers to 2026.4.5 [24fd3b7]
• Increase version to 6.1.0 [648c2a1]
• Deprecate Debian and add Debian-11 as almost drop-in replacement [9c2948a]
• Replace dynamic Microsoft store download by wsl --import (#82) [d5fc1c9]
• Deprecate Alpine and add Alpine-3.17 as almost drop-in replacement [9d61a27]
• Add support for Alpine 3.18 - 3.23 [d859bad]
• Improve test conditions when overwriting wsl.conf file [818d233]
• Add support for Debian 12 using wsl --install --from-file [a0d3bcd]
• Add support for Debian 13 [e8092cd]
• Add a readme that explains the workflow files handling [7d4bd70]
• Update common-custom-user-data-gradle-plugin to 2.6.0 [ade4ee0]
• Update kotlinx-serialization to 1.11.0 [02217b0]

Highlights

Update of Debian distribution if configured is now retried up to 4 times, as the package servers became less stable.

Breaking Changes

The action now always uses WSLv2 as the default WSL
version. Before it used WSLv1 if only that was available
whcih mainly was for the decommissioned windows-2019 runner images.

Details

• Make Gradle Wrapper scripts executable [af172e2]
• Remove tests on windows-2019 which was decommissioned [cbf3871]
• Increase version to 6.0.0 [c0fd238]
• Always use WSLv2 as default WSL version [e840292]
• Install zstd before restoring cache on windows-11-arm to get same cache version [b87f2eb]
• Run WSL update only on windows-2022, not windows-11-arm [c498099]
• Retry up to 4 times to update Debian packages (#75) [442f98c]

Highlights

The caching works now with the new GitHub caching backend (#73)

Details

• Fix verify-release workflow [8c6848e]
• Automatically create new major branch when necessary [781adb1]
• Use version ranges for actions to not use stale cache entries [8f70e6e]
• Improve workflow script editability [4134197]
• Update Gradle Wrapper validation action to v4 [3df3aea]
• Replace gradle-cache-action by setup-gradle action [c620312]
• Update Gradle enterprise plugin to Gradle Develocity plugin 4.0.1 [3e8d4e5]
• Do not publish build scans on every execution and with ToU agreed for everyone [a909bca]
• Add some common custom data to build scans [a35c728]
• Properly close the ktor-client after use [371ac23]
• Update kotlin wrappers to pre.839 [5ae6b25]
• Update @action/cache to 4.0.3 (#73) [e68cca3]
• Update Kotlin version for workflow preprocessing to 2.1.20 [ae34e10]
• Remove build work-around for older KGP versions [1b2cda9]
• Submit the Dependency Graph to GitHub [c7ed15c]
• Make the preprocessing tasks for workflow files cacheable [91860f3]
• Update Kotlin to 2.1.20 [8162803]
• Update kotlinx-coroutines to 1.10.2 [bacdfd8]
• Treat all Kotlin compiler warnings as errors [b4cc8de]
• Update ktor to 3.1.2 [a151f43]
• Update kotlin wrappers to 2025.5.2 [02d3dfe]

Highlights

WSL update command is now only done for GitHub-hosted windows-2022 runners

Breaking Changes

Before this release a WSL update command was always issued if WSLv2 was going to be used.
The windows-2025 image now has the necessary update already installed,
so currently only the GitHub-hosted windows-2022 runners need the call to get WSLv2 working.
But as there are still updates available for the windows-2025 runners it would potentially waste time unnecessarily.

So now the WSL update command is only done for WSLv2 on GItHub-hosted windows-2022 runners,
where it is known that the update is necessary currently to make it work at all.

This could break running on self-hosted runners if they do not have the necessary WSL update installed.
Because of that this is a breaking release.

In such a case a WSL update command can be manually issued before calling the action,
or much preferable is to install the WSL update in the runner image so that no time is wasted during the
workflow execution unnecessarily.

Details

• Increase version to 5.0.0 [a87a88e]
• Only do WSL update command on windows-2022 runner image hosted by GitHub [f4cd646]

Highlights

• Adapted to changed kali-linux distribution ID
• Properly work around EACCES permission errors

Details

• Update copyright dates [560a7ce]
• Add a workflow that verifies all workflow YAMLs for consistency [e5226c2]
• Add a workflow that verifies a freshly released version for basic functioning [37c005c]
• Use latest action API in test workflow [233ed8b]
• Fix step name in GHA workflow [f6fe12c]
• Update github-workflows-kt to 3.2.0 [a6b8abb]
• Fix logging on more than 5 retries [c389573]
• Make workflow generation via Gradle able to run in parallel [a408856]
• Cancel old workflow runs for the same PR or ref [ad61c67]
• Adapt to changed kali-linux distribution ID [0b318e1]
• Update typesafegithub/github-actions-typing to v2 [ee2e262]
• Let Kotlin/JS inject main function arguments [eb74a66]
• Ignore .kotlin directory [00f1a06]
• Work around actions/toolkit#1925 better and more completely [75ccefa]

Highlights

• Support for windows-2025 runner images

Details

• Correct README ToC and default value formatting [ed92ae3]
• Use permanent short-link again for Ubuntu 16.04 [3d42bb0]
• Retry WSLv2 update up to 10 times due to unreliable download server (#66) [10b7b9a]
• Increase version to 4.1.0 [b2fcdb9]
• Add support for windows-2025 runner images (#65) [c82592e]

Highlights

The action can now also use WSLv2 (or any newer version potentially)

Breaking Changes

Where supported the action now defaults to WSLv2.
If you want to continue using WSLv1 where WSLv2 is supported,
then use the new wsl-version input to configure this.

Details

• Increase version to 4.0.0 [7b4322d]
• Add support for WSLv2 (#64) [f2d2a63]