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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Type Update Change
vmactions/freebsd-vm action minor v1.3.9v1.5.6
vmactions/freebsd-vm action patch v1.5.5v1.5.6

Release Notes

vmactions/freebsd-vm (vmactions/freebsd-vm)

v1.5.6

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FreeBSD 14.5, and riscv64 can install packages

New releases

FreeBSD 14.5 on x86_64, aarch64, riscv64 and powerpc64. The action now
offers 13 releases; the default is still 15.1.

riscv64 gains rsync and sshfs

pkg.FreeBSD.org publishes no riscv64 packages at all, so the riscv64
images used to ship without rsync or fusefs-sshfs and only nfs, scp and
tar worked there. Image builder 2.2.7 configures the 15.0 and 15.1
riscv64 images for anyvm-org/freebsd-pkg-repo, a signed build of the
ports tree for FreeBSD:15:riscv64, so those two releases now support
all five sync methods:

sync: rsync (the default)
sync: sshfs
sync: nfs
sync: scp
sync: tar

pkg install also works inside the VM on those images. 13.x and 14.x
riscv64 are unchanged and stay on nfs, scp and tar.

Pins

BUILDER_VERSION 2.2.6 -> 2.2.7
ANYVM_VERSION 0.6.5 -> 0.6.9

Fixes from base-vm

  • The osname input defaults to lowercase "freebsd".
  • rsync keeps its timestamps on this action; the -t workaround added
    for AlmaLinux/Rocky ppc64le does not apply here.
  • scp-mode copyback picks the right archive tool per guest.

v1.5.5

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The runtime moves to anyvm v0.6.5 (from v0.6.4), keeping the whole fleet
on one version. This action's surface is unchanged -- same images, same
sync methods, same defaults. The bump carries one runtime change of
note: on hosts whose nested AMD virtualization corrupts AVX512 XSAVE
state, the CPU-feature mask now drops the whole AVX512 family instead of
only avx512f.

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.5.4...v1.5.5

v1.5.4

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sync: tar

A fourth way to share the workspace, available on every architecture
including riscv64 and powerpc64, where rsync and sshfs do not exist:

The workspace is streamed in as a ustar archive over the ssh connection the
action already opens, and streamed back the same way when the run finishes.
Nothing is installed in the guest and no filesystem support is needed on
either side, unlike sshfs and nfs. Verified before shipping: 300 files plus
a 1 MB binary blob pushed into a 15.1 guest, a file written inside it, the
whole tree pulled back and compared by content hash.

rsync remains the default. Reach for tar when the guest lacks rsync, or when
a mount-based method is more machinery than the job needs.

Under the hood

The image builder moves to freebsd-builder v2.2.6 and the runtime to anyvm
v0.6.4, nine releases on from what v1.5.3 shipped. Most of that is other
guests, but two fixes reach every action:

A failed folder sync used to be a warning. The run continued with the guest
missing the files it was about to use, which surfaced much later as a
confusing error or a job that sat until its timeout. It is now fatal, and
says so.

The workspace push no longer carries the runner's own harness directories
into the guest.

Also

The shell note no longer mentions usesh, which has not been needed for
some time.

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.5.3...v1.5.4

v1.5.3

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support major release:

release: 15

release: 14

release: 13

release: 12

v1.5.2

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reduce image sizes.

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1...v1.5.2

v1.5.1

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The prepare step (installing packages etc.) normally runs on every build. With cache-after-prepare: true, the action shuts the VM down cleanly after prepare has finished, caches the prepared VM image, and boots the VM again before run. Later runs with the same prepare script restore the prepared image, skip prepare entirely, and start directly at run

https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm#10-cache-the-vm-image-after-prepare

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1...v1.5.1

v1.5.0

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  1. Support all the versions from 12.4 to lastest 15.1
  2. Support all the archs: x86, aarch64, riscv64 and powerpc64

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1...v1.5.0

v1.4.9

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fix bug for authorized_keys

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1...v1.4.9

v1.4.8

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add powerpc64 arch

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.4.7...v1.4.8

v1.4.7

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15.1 release

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.4.6...v1.4.7

v1.4.6

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update images for stability and reliability

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.4.5...v1.4.6

v1.4.5

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support custom-shell-name

Full Changelog: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1.4.4...v1.4.5

v1.4.4

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add 14.4

v1.4.3

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use node24

v1.4.2

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fix bug "sync:no"

v1.4.1

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add set -eu
support vnc-password

v1.4.0

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fix urgent bug in last release v1.3.9


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oech3 commented Sep 12, 2026

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It should be able to update lint CI only.

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GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/cut/bounded-memory (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skip an intermittent issue tests/misc/tty-eof (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/date/date-locale-hour (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/inotify-dir-recreate (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Note: The gnu test tests/csplit/csplit-heap is now being skipped but was previously passing.

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renovate Bot force-pushed the renovate/vmactions-freebsd-vm-1.x branch from 842ec24 to 61b8be8 Compare September 12, 2026 20:52
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