## Summary
Fixes two related bugs that cause jobs in large workflows (50+ parallel
jobs) to never get a runner assigned even though runners are free.
### Bug 1 — Concurrent runner race
When N runners all poll `FetchTask` with a stale `tasksVersion`
simultaneously, they all query the same waiting job list sorted by
`(updated, id)` and all pick **job #1**. Only one wins the `UPDATE WHERE
task_id=0` optimistic lock; the rest return empty-handed but still
receive `latestVersion` in the response. They then consider themselves
"up to date" and skip `PickTask` on every subsequent poll, leaving jobs
#2–50 permanently unassigned.
**Fix:** `CreateTaskForRunner` now iterates through all matching waiting
jobs. When the optimistic lock fails on job #1, it immediately tries job
#2, then #3, etc., each in its own independent transaction so a failed
attempt rolls back cleanly before the next candidate is tried.
`PickTask` no longer wraps this call in an outer `db.WithTx` (which
caused `halfCommitter` entanglement that prevented per-attempt
rollbacks).
### Bug 2 — Idle runner doesn't re-check after finishing a task
`tasks_version` only bumps when a job transitions **to** waiting (new
workflow triggered, blocked→unblocked). After a runner finishes its
current task it polls `FetchTask` with `tasksVersion == latestVersion`,
so the server skips `PickTask` entirely — the remaining 45 waiting jobs
are invisible to the now-idle runner.
**Fix:** Also call `IncreaseTaskVersion` in `UpdateRunJob` when a
(non-reusable-caller) job transitions to a **done** state. Idle runners
then see a version mismatch on their next poll and attempt `PickTask`,
picking up the remaining jobs.
Support `continue-on-error` for workflow jobs when aggregating an
Actions workflow run status.
Previously, `continue-on-error` was parsed from workflow YAML but was
not persisted or used when calculating the overall run result. As a
result, a failed job could incorrectly fail the entire workflow even
when the workflow explicitly allowed that job to fail.
This PR stores the parsed `continue-on-error` value on each action run
job and treats failed jobs with `continue-on-error: true` as successful
when computing the workflow run status, matching GitHub Actions
behavior.
## Changes
- Add `ContinueOnError` to `jobparser.Job`.
- Add `continue_on_error` to `ActionRunJob` with a `NOT NULL DEFAULT
FALSE` migration.
- Populate `ActionRunJob.ContinueOnError` when creating workflow run
jobs.
- Update workflow status aggregation so failed `continue-on-error` jobs
do not fail the overall run.
- Leave `resolveCheckNeeds` unchanged so dependent jobs still see the
job result as `failure` and are skipped by default.
## Compatibility
This is backward compatible.
If only the runner or only the server is updated, `continue-on-error`
continues to degrade to the previous behavior and is effectively ignored
until both sides support it.
Related runner PR: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1032
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## Summary
This PR improves reusable workflow support for Gitea Actions. The
parsing of the called workflow now happens on Gitea side, not on the
runner. When the caller becomes ready, Gitea fetches the called workflow
source, parses it, and inserts each child job into the database as a
`ActionRunJob` linked to the caller via `ParentCallJobID`. As a result,
every callee job is dispatched as its own task and its logs surface as
an independent job entry in the UI, rather than being inlined into the
caller's "Set up job" step.
This PR supports two kinds of `uses` :
- same-repo call: `uses: ./.gitea/workflows/foo.yaml`
- cross-repo call: `uses: OWNER/REPO/.gitea/workflows/foo.yaml@REF`
## **⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️**
External reusable workflows (`uses:
https://other-gitea-instance/OWNER/REPO/.gitea/workflows/test.yaml@REF`)
are no longer supported. To keep using them, clone the repositories to
the local instance.
## Main changes
### Execution model
- Each caller job carries `IsReusableCaller=true` and won't be fetched
by runners.
- `ParentCallJobID` can link a called job to its caller.
- Caller status is derived from its direct children.
### Workflow syntax
- `jobparser` now supports parsing `on: workflow_call` trigger with
`inputs:`, `outputs:`, and `secrets:` declarations.
- **Max nesting depth**: capped at `MaxReusableCallLevels = 9`, which
means a top-level caller may have at most 9 nested callers below it.
- **Cycle prevention**: at expansion time, `checkCallerChain` walks the
caller's ancestor chain via `ParentCallJobID` and rejects if the same
`uses:` string appears anywhere upstream (`reusable workflow call cycle
detected`). This catches both direct (`A -> A`) and indirect (`A -> B ->
A`) cycles.
### Cross-repo access
- To share reusable workflows from private repos, use `Collaborative
Owners` introduced by #32562
### Rerun semantics
- `expandRerunJobIDs` partitions the latest attempt's jobs into:
- a **rerun set**: jobs being rerun + downstream siblings within the
same scope.
- an **ancestor set**: reusable callers whose only *some* descendants
are being rerun (the caller itself is not).
- Cloning behavior for callers in `execRerunPlan`:
- **Caller is fully rerun** (caller's `AttemptJobID` in `rerunSet`):
none of its descendants are cloned. The caller is cloned with
`IsCallerExpanded=false`, and re-expansion (which reinserts the children
fresh) happens later when the resolver brings the caller to `Waiting`
again.
- **Caller is in ancestor set** (only some descendants rerun): the
caller is pass-through (`Status` will be updated by its fresh children).
Its non-rerun descendants are also pass-through clones (point
`SourceTaskID` at the original task). Their `ParentCallJobID` is
remapped to the new attempt's caller row.
### UI
- Job list in `RepoActionView.vue` is now tree-shaped: callers indent
their children. Callers default to collapsed.
- New caller detail page using `WorkflowGraph` to show direct children
only; the run summary's `WorkflowGraph` shows top-level callers and
their immediate descendants.
### Known trade-offs
- **Caller expansion runs inside the enclosing write transaction.**
`expandReusableWorkflowCaller` performs a git read of the called
workflow while holding the row locks that update the caller and insert
its children. This is intentional: the caller-row update and child-row
inserts must commit atomically. None of the call sites is hot (each
caller is expanded once per attempt), so the trade-off is acceptable.
- **A malformed `if:` expression on a job leaves it `Blocked`
silently.** `evaluateJobIf` now runs server-side as part of resolver
passes; deterministic expression errors (typos, undefined context
fields) are logged but do not surface in the UI. This is the same
behavior the resolver already had for concurrency-expression errors.
Distinguishing transient DB errors from user-authored expression errors
and writing the latter back as `StatusFailure` is a follow-up.
#### Screenshots
<img width="1600" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bfaa9b7a-07e9-4127-8de9-a81f86e82828"
/>
<img width="1600" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8af109b3-ef28-4b53-aaad-d4632b923224"
/>
## References
-
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/reuse-automations/reuse-workflows
-
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/reusing-workflow-configurations
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Replace #36388
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## Fixes#36983
## Summary
1. Add transitional `Cancelling` status (between `Running` and
`Cancelled`); cancel flow marks active tasks `Cancelling`, runner
finalizes to `Cancelled` on terminal result.
2. Taskless jobs cancel directly (no runner to finalize).
3. Runner-protocol responses map `Cancelling` → `RESULT_CANCELLED`.
4. Run/job aggregation treats `Cancelling` as active.
5. Status mapping/aggregation tests + en-US locale added.
**Problem**
When a workflow was cancelled from the UI, jobs were marked cancelled
immediately, which could skip post-run cleanup behavior.
## Solution
Use a transitional status path:
Running → Cancelling → Cancelled
This allows runner finalization and cleanup path execution before final
terminal state.
**Testing**
> 1. go test -tags "sqlite sqlite_unlock_notify" ./models/actions -run
"TestAggregateJobStatus|TestStatusAsResult|TestStatusFromResult"
> 2. go run
github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.11.4 run
./models/actions/... ./routers/api/actions/runner/...
## Related
- act_runner: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/825 —
independent; this PR's capability gate keeps legacy runners on the
immediate-cancel path. The new flow activates only for runners that
advertise the `cancelling` capability.
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Avoid per-item DB queries in ListRuns, ListJobs, and ListActionTasks by
batch-loading trigger users, repositories, and task attributes before
the conversion loop. Remove ReferencesGitRepo from the /actions route
group since no task/run endpoints use it.
Added tests for these endpoints as well.
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This PR introduces a new `ActionRunAttempt` model and makes Actions
execution attempt-scoped.
**Main Changes**
- Each workflow run trigger generates a new `ActionRunAttempt`. The
triggered jobs are then associated with this new `ActionRunAttempt`
record.
- Each rerun now creates:
- a new `ActionRunAttempt` record for the workflow run
- a full new set of `ActionRunJob` records for the new
`ActionRunAttempt`
- For jobs that need to be rerun, the new job records are created as
runnable jobs in the new attempt.
- For jobs that do not need to be rerun, new job records are still
created in the new attempt, but they reuse the result of the previous
attempt instead of executing again.
- Introduce `rerunPlan` to manage each rerun and refactored rerun flow
into a two-phase plan-based model:
- `buildRerunPlan`
- `execRerunPlan`
- `RerunFailedWorkflowRun` and `RerunFailed` no longer directly derives
all jobs that need to be rerun; this step is now handled by
`buildRerunPlan`.
- Converted artifacts from run-scoped to attempt-scoped:
- uploads are now associated with `RunAttemptID`
- listing, download, and deletion resolve against the current attempt
- Added attempt-aware web Actions views:
- the default run page shows the latest attempt
(`/actions/runs/{run_id}`)
- previous attempt pages show jobs and artifacts for that attempt
(`/actions/runs/{run_id}/attempts/{attempt_num}`)
- New APIs:
- `/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run}/attempts/{attempt}`
- `/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run}/attempts/{attempt}/jobs`
- New configuration `MAX_RERUN_ATTEMPTS`
- https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/383
**Compatibility**
- Existing legacy runs use `LatestAttemptID = 0` and legacy jobs use
`RunAttemptID = 0`. Therefore, these fields can be used to identify
legacy runs and jobs and provide backward compatibility.
- If a legacy run is rerun, an `ActionRunAttempt` with `attempt=1` will
be created to represent the original execution. Then a new
`ActionRunAttempt` with `attempt=2` will be created for the real rerun.
- Existing artifact records are not backfilled; legacy artifacts
continue to use `RunAttemptID = 0`.
**Improvements**
- It is now easier to inspect and download logs from previous attempts.
-
[`run_attempt`](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/contexts#github-context)
semantics are now aligned with GitHub.
- > A unique number for each attempt of a particular workflow run in a
repository. This number begins at 1 for the workflow run's first
attempt, and increments with each re-run.
- Rerun behavior is now clearer and more explicit.
- Instead of mutating the status of previous jobs in place, each rerun
creates a new attempt with a full new set of job records.
- Artifacts produced by different reruns can now be listed separately.
Signed-off-by: Zettat123 <zettat123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Workflow run, job, task, and step durations could show **negative**
values (e.g. `-50s`) when `Stopped` was missing, zero (epoch), or
**before** `Started` (clock skew, races, reruns). The UI used
`calculateDuration` with no validation.
This change:
- Uses each row`s **Updated** timestamp as a **fallback end time** when
`Stopped` is invalid but the status is terminal, so duration
approximates elapsed time instead of `0s` or a negative.
- Keeps **`ActionRun.Duration()`** clamped to **≥ 0** when
`PreviousDuration` plus the current segment would still be negative
(legacy bad data).
Fixes#34582.
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Follow up #36842
Migration `326` can be prohibitively slow on large instances because it
scans and rewrites all commit status target URLs generated by Gitea
Actions in the database. This PR refactors migration `326` to perform a
partial update instead of rewriting every legacy target URL. The reason
for this partial rewrite is that **smaller legacy run/job indexes are
the most likely to be ambiguous with run/job ID-based URLs** during
runtime resolution, so this change prioritizes that subset while
avoiding the cost of rewriting all legacy records.
To preserve access to old links, this PR introduces
`resolveCurrentRunForView` to handle both ID-based URLs and index-based
URLs:
- For job pages (`/actions/runs/{run}/jobs/{job}`), it first tries to
confirm that the URL is ID-based. It does so by checking whether `{job}`
can be treated as an existing job ID in the repository and whether that
job belongs to `{run}`. If that match cannot be confirmed, it falls back
to treating the URL as legacy `run index + job index`, resolves the
corresponding run and job, and redirects to the correct ID-based URL.
- When both ID-based and index-based interpretations are valid at the
same time, the resolver **prefers the ID-based interpretation by
default**. For example, if a repository contains one run-job pair
(`run_id=3, run_index=2, job_id=4`), and also another run-job pair
(`run_id=1100, run_index=3, job_id=1200, job_index=4`), then
`/actions/runs/3/jobs/4` is ambiguous. In that case, the resolver treats
it as the ID-based URL by default and shows the page for `run_id=3,
job_id=4`. Users can still explicitly force the legacy index-based
interpretation with `?by_index=1`, which would resolve the same URL to
`/actions/runs/1100/jobs/1200`.
- For run summary pages (`/actions/runs/{run}`), it uses a best-effort
strategy: by default it first treats `{run}` as a run ID, and if no such
run exists in the repository, it falls back to treating `{run}` as a
legacy run index and redirects to the ID-based URL. Users can also
explicitly force the legacy interpretation with `?by_index=1`.
- This summary-page compatibility is best-effort, not a strict ambiguity
check. For example, if a repository contains two runs: runA (`id=7,
index=3`) and runB (`id=99, index=7`), then `/actions/runs/7` will
resolve to runA by default, even though the old index-based URL
originally referred to runB.
The table below shows how valid legacy index-based target URLs are
handled before and after migration `326`. Lower-range legacy URLs are
rewritten to ID-based URLs, while higher-range legacy URLs remain
unchanged in the database but are still handled correctly by
`resolveCurrentRunForView` at runtime.
| run_id | run_index | job_id | job_index | old target URL | updated by
migration 326 | current target URL | can be resolved correctly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/2/jobs/1` | true |
`/user2/repo2/actions/runs/3/jobs/4` | true |
| 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/3/jobs/4` | true |
`/user2/repo2/actions/runs/4/jobs/8` | true (without migration 326, this
URL will resolve to run(`id=3`)) |
| 80 | 20 | 170 | 0 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/20/jobs/0` | true |
`/user2/repo2/actions/runs/80/jobs/170` | true |
| 1500 | 900 | 1600 | 0 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/900/jobs/0` | false
| `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/900/jobs/0` | true |
| 2400 | 1500 | 2600 | 0 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/1500/jobs/0` |
false | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/1500/jobs/0` | true |
| 2400 | 1500 | 2601 | 1 | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/1500/jobs/1` |
false | `/user2/repo2/actions/runs/1500/jobs/1` | true |
For users who already ran the old migration `326`, this change has no
functional impact. Their historical URLs are already stored in the
ID-based form, and ID-based URLs continue to resolve correctly.
For users who have not run the old migration `326`, only a subset of
legacy target URLs will now be rewritten during upgrade. This avoids the
extreme runtime cost of the previous full migration, while all remaining
legacy target URLs continue to work through the web-layer compatibility
logic.
Many thanks to @wxiaoguang for the suggestions.
## Overview
This PR introduces granular permission controls for Gitea Actions tokens
(`GITEA_TOKEN`), aligning Gitea's security model with GitHub Actions
standards while maintaining compatibility with Gitea's unique repository
unit system.
It addresses the need for finer access control by allowing
administrators and repository owners to define default token
permissions, set maximum permission ceilings, and control
cross-repository access within organizations.
## Key Features
### 1. Granular Token Permissions
- **Standard Keyword Support**: Implements support for the
`permissions:` keyword in workflow and job YAML files (e.g., `contents:
read`, `issues: write`).
- **Permission Modes**:
- **Permissive**: Default write access for most units (backwards
compatible).
- **Restricted**: Default read-only access for `contents` and
`packages`, with no access to other units.
- ~~**Custom**: Allows defining specific default levels for each unit
type (Code, Issues, PRs, Packages, etc.).~~**EDIT removed UI was
confusing**
- **Clamping Logic**: Workflow-defined permissions are automatically
"clamped" by repository or organization-level maximum settings.
Workflows cannot escalate their own permissions beyond these limits.
### 2. Organization & Repository Settings
- **Settings UI**: Added new settings pages at both Organization and
Repository levels to manage Actions token defaults and maximums.
- **Inheritance**: Repositories can be configured to "Follow
organization-level configuration," simplifying management across large
organizations.
- **Cross-Repository Access**: Added a policy to control whether Actions
workflows can access other repositories or packages within the same
organization. This can be set to "None," "All," or restricted to a
"Selected" list of repositories.
### 3. Security Hardening
- **Fork Pull Request Protection**: Tokens for workflows triggered by
pull requests from forks are strictly enforced as read-only, regardless
of repository settings.
- ~~**Package Access**: Actions tokens can now only access packages
explicitly linked to a repository, with cross-repo access governed by
the organization's security policy.~~ **EDIT removed
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36173#issuecomment-3873675346**
- **Git Hook Integration**: Propagates Actions Task IDs to git hooks to
ensure that pushes performed by Actions tokens respect the specific
permissions granted at runtime.
### 4. Technical Implementation
- **Permission Persistence**: Parsed permissions are calculated at job
creation and stored in the `action_run_job` table. This ensures the
token's authority is deterministic throughout the job's lifecycle.
- **Parsing Priority**: Implemented a priority system in the YAML parser
where the broad `contents` scope is applied first, allowing granular
scopes like `code` or `releases` to override it for precise control.
- **Re-runs**: Permissions are re-evaluated during a job re-run to
incorporate any changes made to repository settings in the interim.
### How to Test
1. **Unit Tests**: Run `go test ./services/actions/...` and `go test
./models/repo/...` to verify parsing logic and permission clamping.
2. **Integration Tests**: Comprehensive tests have been added to
`tests/integration/actions_job_token_test.go` covering:
- Permissive vs. Restricted mode behavior.
- YAML `permissions:` keyword evaluation.
- Organization cross-repo access policies.
- Resource access (Git, API, and Packages) under various permission
configs.
3. **Manual Verification**:
- Navigate to **Site/Org/Repo Settings -> Actions -> General**.
- Change "Default Token Permissions" and verify that newly triggered
workflows reflect these changes in their `GITEA_TOKEN` capabilities.
- Attempt a cross-repo API call from an Action and verify the Org policy
is enforced.
## Documentation
Added a PR in gitea's docs for this :
https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/318
## UI:
<img width="1366" height="619" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-24 174112"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bfa29c9a-4ea5-4346-9410-16d491ef3d44"
/>
<img width="1360" height="621" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-24 174048"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d5ec46c8-9a13-4874-a6a4-fb379936cef5"
/>
/fixes #24635
/claim #24635
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This PR migrates the web Actions run/job routes from index-based
`runIndex` or `jobIndex` to database IDs.
**⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️**: Existing saved links/bookmarks that use the old
index-based URLs will no longer resolve after this change.
Improvements of this change:
- Previously, `jobIndex` depended on list order, making it hard to
locate a specific job. Using `jobID` provides stable addressing.
- Web routes now align with API, which already use IDs.
- Behavior is closer to GitHub, which exposes run/job IDs in URLs.
- Provides a cleaner base for future features without relying on list
order.
- #36388 this PR improves the support for reusable workflows. If a job
uses a reusable workflow, it may contain multiple child jobs, which
makes relying on job index to locate a job much more complicated
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The jobparser sub package in act is only used by Gitea. Move it to Gitea
to make it more easier to maintain.
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Use a helper method around the jobparser for parsing a single job
structure from an ActionRunJob
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Fix#32795
If a job uses a matrix, multiple `ActionRunJobs` may have the same
`JobID`. We need to merge the outputs of these jobs to make them
available to the jobs that need them.
Close#24544
Changes:
- Create `action_tasks_version` table to store the latest version of
each scope (global, org and repo).
- When a job with the status of `waiting` is created, the tasks version
of the scopes it belongs to will increase.
- When the status of a job already in the database is updated to
`waiting`, the tasks version of the scopes it belongs to will increase.
- On Gitea side, in `FeatchTask()`, will try to query the
`action_tasks_version` record of the scope of the runner that call
`FetchTask()`. If the record does not exist, will insert a row. Then,
Gitea will compare the version passed from runner to Gitea with the
version in database, if inconsistent, try pick task. Gitea always
returns the latest version from database to the runner.
Related:
- Protocol: https://gitea.com/gitea/actions-proto-def/pulls/10
- Runner: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/219
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