v8

[Burnett01]

What's Changed

Version v8 (8.0.2) offers the following features:

• feat: latest Alpine 3.23.0
• feat: latest Rsync 3.4.1-r1
• feat: integrate rsync-docker 3rd party into this action as 1st party code (no more dependency, better audit, single source of truth)
  • backported:
    • agent-start
    • agent-stop
    • agent-askpass
    • agent-add
    • hosts-add
    • hosts-clear
  • new added:
    • ssh-init
    • hosts-init
  • improved:
    • stricter permissions on .ssh/ folder (700) and known_hosts (600)
    • use set -eu in all scipts
• feat: new strict_host_keys option to enable support for strict host key verification. Default: false (to keep backward compatibility)
• feat: new debug option to see the commands executed (-x) by this action
• feat: this action is now scanned for vulnerabilities by Snyk
• feat; this action is now scanned by CodeQL for Q/A
• feat: this action now performs CI tasks such as Validation, Linting and Unit Tests
• fix: various shell syntax for robustness
• fix: use printf and redirect output to non-stdout instead of echo in sensitive code locations
• refactor: use $HOME instead of tilde ~ for robustness
• feat: cross-platform support
• chore: Deprecate 7.0.2
• chore: EOL 7.0.0 & 7.0.1

New release channels:

From now on you can use @v8 instead of manually pinning to a version like 8.0.2.

The benefit of using v8 is that you will receive future MINOR+PATCH updates automatically, since v8 is a pointer to 8.x.x.

However, of course you are free to use the regular format like 8.0.2 directly.

Full Changelog: 7.1.0...8.0.2

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