CodeQL Action Changelog

See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.

3.29.5 - 29 Jul 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.22.2. #2986

3.29.4 - 23 Jul 2025

No user facing changes.

3.29.3 - 21 Jul 2025

No user facing changes.

3.29.2 - 30 Jun 2025

Experimental: When the quality-queries input for the init action is provided with an argument, separate .quality.sarif files are produced and uploaded for each language with the results of the specified queries. Do not use this in production as it is part of an internal experiment and subject to change at any time. #2935

3.29.1 - 27 Jun 2025

Fix bug in PR analysis where user-provided include query filter fails to exclude non-included queries. #2938
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.22.1. #2950

3.29.0 - 11 Jun 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.22.0. #2925
Bump minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.6. #2912

3.28.21 - 28 July 2025

No user facing changes.

3.28.20 - 21 July 2025

Remove support for combining SARIF files from a single upload for GHES 3.18, see the changelog post. #2959

3.28.19 - 03 Jun 2025

The CodeQL Action no longer includes its own copy of the extractor for the actions language, which is currently in public preview. The actions extractor has been included in the CodeQL CLI since v2.20.6. If your workflow has enabled the actions language and you have pinned your tools: property to a specific version of the CodeQL CLI earlier than v2.20.6, you will need to update to at least CodeQL v2.20.6 or disable actions analysis.
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.21.4. #2910

3.28.18 - 16 May 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.21.3. #2893
Skip validating SARIF produced by CodeQL for improved performance. #2894
The number of threads and amount of RAM used by CodeQL can now be set via the CODEQL_THREADS and CODEQL_RAM runner environment variables. If set, these environment variables override the threads and ram inputs respectively. #2891

3.28.17 - 02 May 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.21.2. #2872

3.28.16 - 23 Apr 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.21.1. #2863

3.28.15 - 07 Apr 2025

Fix bug where the action would fail if it tried to produce a debug artifact with more than 65535 files. #2842

3.28.14 - 07 Apr 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.21.0. #2838

3.28.13 - 24 Mar 2025

No user facing changes.

3.28.12 - 19 Mar 2025

Dependency caching should now cache more dependencies for Java build-mode: none extractions. This should speed up workflows and avoid inconsistent alerts in some cases.
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.7. #2810

3.28.11 - 07 Mar 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.6. #2793

3.28.10 - 21 Feb 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.5. #2772
Address an issue where the CodeQL Bundle would occasionally fail to decompress on macOS. #2768

3.28.9 - 07 Feb 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.4. #2753

3.28.8 - 29 Jan 2025

Enable support for Kotlin 2.1.10 when running with CodeQL CLI v2.20.3. #2744

3.28.7 - 29 Jan 2025

No user facing changes.

3.28.6 - 27 Jan 2025

Re-enable debug artifact upload for CLI versions 2.20.3 or greater. #2726

3.28.5 - 24 Jan 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.3. #2717

3.28.4 - 23 Jan 2025

No user facing changes.

3.28.3 - 22 Jan 2025

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.2. #2707
Fix an issue downloading the CodeQL Bundle from a GitHub Enterprise Server instance which occurred when the CodeQL Bundle had been synced to the instance using the CodeQL Action sync tool and the Actions runner did not have Zstandard installed. #2710
Uploading debug artifacts for CodeQL analysis is temporarily disabled. #2712

3.28.2 - 21 Jan 2025

No user facing changes.

3.28.1 - 10 Jan 2025

CodeQL Action v2 is now deprecated, and is no longer updated or supported. For better performance, improved security, and new features, upgrade to v3. For more information, see this changelog post. #2677
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.1. #2678

3.28.0 - 20 Dec 2024

Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.5. #2655
Don't fail in the unusual case that a file is on the search path. #2660.

3.27.9 - 12 Dec 2024

No user facing changes.

3.27.8 - 12 Dec 2024

Fixed an issue where streaming the download and extraction of the CodeQL bundle did not respect proxy settings. #2624

3.27.7 - 10 Dec 2024

We are rolling out a change in December 2024 that will extract the CodeQL bundle directly to the toolcache to improve performance. #2631
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.20.0. #2636

3.27.6 - 03 Dec 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.19.4. #2626

3.27.5 - 19 Nov 2024

No user facing changes.

3.27.4 - 14 Nov 2024

No user facing changes.

3.27.3 - 12 Nov 2024

No user facing changes.

3.27.2 - 12 Nov 2024

Fixed an issue where setting up the CodeQL tools would sometimes fail with the message "Invalid value 'undefined' for header 'authorization'". #2590

3.27.1 - 08 Nov 2024

The CodeQL Action now downloads bundles compressed using Zstandard on GitHub Enterprise Server when using Linux or macOS runners. This speeds up the installation of the CodeQL tools. This feature is already available to GitHub.com users. #2573
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.19.3. #2576

3.27.0 - 22 Oct 2024

Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.6. #2549
Fix an issue where the upload-sarif Action would fail with "upload-sarif post-action step failed: Input required and not supplied: token" when called in a composite Action that had a different set of inputs to the ones expected by the upload-sarif Action. #2557
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.19.2. #2552

3.26.13 - 14 Oct 2024

No user facing changes.

3.26.12 - 07 Oct 2024

Upcoming breaking change: Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.14.5 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 24 September 2024 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10, and will be unsupported by CodeQL Action versions 3.27.0 and later and versions 2.27.0 and later. #2520
- If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.14.6 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 2.13.5 and 2.14.5, you can replace github/codeql-action/*@v3 by github/codeql-action/*@v3.26.11 and github/codeql-action/*@v2 by github/codeql-action/*@v2.26.11 in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.

3.26.11 - 03 Oct 2024

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 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.
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.19.1. #2519

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 from your workflows. For more information, see the release notes for CodeQL Action v3.23.0 and v2.23.0.
Automatically overwrite an existing database if found on the filesystem. #2229
Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.6. #2232
A more relevant log message and a diagnostic are now emitted when the file program is not installed on a Linux runner, but is required for Go tracing to succeed. #2234

3.24.10 - 05 Apr 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.17.0. #2219
Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.12.5 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 26 March 2024 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8, and will be unsupported by CodeQL Action versions 3.25.0 and later and versions 2.25.0 and later. #2220
- If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.12.6 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 2.11.6 and 2.12.5, you can replace github/codeql-action/*@v3 by github/codeql-action/*@v3.24.10 and github/codeql-action/*@v2 by github/codeql-action/*@v2.24.10 in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.

3.24.9 - 22 Mar 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.5. #2203

3.24.8 - 18 Mar 2024

Improve the ease of debugging extraction issues by increasing the verbosity of the extractor logs when running in debug mode. #2195

3.24.7 - 12 Mar 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.4. #2185

3.24.6 - 29 Feb 2024

No user facing changes.

3.24.5 - 23 Feb 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.3. #2156

3.24.4 - 21 Feb 2024

Fix an issue where an existing, but empty, /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus file always resulted in a single-threaded run. #2151

3.24.3 - 15 Feb 2024

Fix an issue where the CodeQL Action would fail to load a configuration specified by the config input to the init Action. #2147

3.24.2 - 15 Feb 2024

Enable improved multi-threaded performance on larger runners for GitHub Enterprise Server users. This feature is already available to GitHub.com users. #2141

3.24.1 - 13 Feb 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.2. #2124
The CodeQL action no longer fails if it can't write to the telemetry api endpoint. #2121

3.24.0 - 02 Feb 2024

CodeQL Python analysis will no longer install dependencies on GitHub Enterprise Server, as is already the case for GitHub.com. See release notes for 3.23.0 for more details. #2106

3.23.2 - 26 Jan 2024

On Linux, the maximum possible value for the --threads option now respects the CPU count as specified in cgroup files to more accurately reflect the number of available cores when running in containers. #2083
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.1. #2096

3.23.1 - 17 Jan 2024

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.16.0. #2073
Change the retention period for uploaded debug artifacts to 7 days. Previously, this was whatever the repository default was. #2079

3.23.0 - 08 Jan 2024

We are rolling out a feature in January 2024 that will disable Python dependency installation by default for all users. This improves the speed of analysis while having only a very minor impact on results. You can override this behavior by setting CODEQL_ACTION_DISABLE_PYTHON_DEPENDENCY_INSTALLATION=false in your workflow, however we plan to remove this ability in future versions of the CodeQL Action. #2031
The CodeQL Action now requires CodeQL version 2.11.6 or later. For more information, see the corresponding changelog entry for CodeQL Action version 2.22.7. #2009

3.22.12 - 22 Dec 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.5. #2047

3.22.11 - 13 Dec 2023

[v3+ only] The CodeQL Action now runs on Node.js v20. #2006

2.22.10 - 12 Dec 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.4. #2016

2.22.9 - 07 Dec 2023

No user facing changes.

2.22.8 - 23 Nov 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.3. #2001

2.22.7 - 16 Nov 2023

Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.11.5 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 8 November 2023 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7, and will be unsupported by CodeQL Action v2.23.0 and later. #1993
- If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.11.6 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 2.10.5 and 2.11.5, you can replace github/codeql-action/*@v2 by github/codeql-action/*@v2.22.7 in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.

2.22.6 - 14 Nov 2023

Customers running Python analysis on macOS using version 2.14.6 or earlier of the CodeQL CLI should upgrade to CodeQL CLI version 2.15.0 or later. If you do not wish to upgrade the CodeQL CLI, ensure that you are using Python version 3.11 or earlier, as CodeQL version 2.14.6 and earlier do not support Python 3.12. You can achieve this by adding a setup-python step to your code scanning workflow before the step that invokes github/codeql-action/init.
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.2. #1978

2.22.5 - 27 Oct 2023

No user facing changes.

2.22.4 - 20 Oct 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.1. #1953
Users will begin to see warnings on Node.js 16 deprecation in their Actions logs on code scanning runs starting October 23, 2023.
- All code scanning workflows should continue to succeed regardless of the warning.
- The team at GitHub maintaining the CodeQL Action is aware of the deprecation timeline and actively working on creating another version of the CodeQL Action, v3, that will bump us to Node 20.
- For more information, and to communicate with the maintaining team, please use this issue.

2.22.3 - 13 Oct 2023

Provide an authentication token when downloading the CodeQL Bundle from the API of a GitHub Enterprise Server instance. #1945

2.22.2 - 12 Oct 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.15.0. #1938
Improve the log output when an error occurs in an invocation of the CodeQL CLI. #1927

2.22.1 - 09 Oct 2023

Add a workaround for Python 3.12, which is not supported in CodeQL CLI version 2.14.6 or earlier. If you are running an analysis on Windows and using Python 3.12 or later, the CodeQL Action will switch to running Python 3.11. In this case, if Python 3.11 is not found, then the workflow will fail. #1928

2.22.0 - 06 Oct 2023

The CodeQL Action now requires CodeQL version 2.10.5 or later. For more information, see the corresponding changelog entry for CodeQL Action version 2.21.8. #1907
The CodeQL Action no longer runs ML-powered queries. For more information, including details on our investment in AI-powered security technology, see "CodeQL code scanning deprecates ML-powered alerts." #1910
Fix a bug which prevented tracing of projects using Go 1.21 and above on Linux. #1909

2.21.9 - 27 Sep 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.6. #1897
We are rolling out a feature in October 2023 that will improve the success rate of C/C++ autobuild. #1889
We are rolling out a feature in October 2023 that will provide specific file coverage information for C and C++, Java and Kotlin, and JavaScript and TypeScript. Currently file coverage information for each of these pairs of languages is grouped together. #1903
Add a warning to help customers avoid inadvertently analyzing the same CodeQL language in multiple matrix jobs. #1901

2.21.8 - 19 Sep 2023

Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.10.4 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 12 September 2023 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6, and will be unsupported by the next minor release of the CodeQL Action. #1884
- If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.10.5 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 2.9.5 and 2.10.4, you can replace github/codeql-action/*@v2 by github/codeql-action/*@v2.21.7 in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.
Enable the following language aliases when using CodeQL 2.14.4 and later: c-cpp for C/C++ analysis, java-kotlin for Java/Kotlin analysis, and javascript-typescript for JavaScript/TypeScript analysis. #1883

2.21.7 - 14 Sep 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.5. #1882

2.21.6 - 13 Sep 2023

Better error message when there is a failure to determine the merge base of the code to analysis. #1860
Improve the calculation of default amount of RAM used for query execution on GitHub Enterprise Server. This now reduces in proportion to the runner's total memory to better account for system memory usage, helping to avoid out-of-memory failures on larger runners. This feature is already available to GitHub.com users. #1866
Enable improved file coverage information for GitHub Enterprise Server users. This feature is already available to GitHub.com users. #1867
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.4. #1873

2.21.5 - 28 Aug 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.3. #1845
Fixed a bug in CodeQL Action 2.21.3 onwards that affected beta support for Project Lombok when analyzing Java. The environment variable CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_RUN_ANNOTATION_PROCESSORS will now be respected if it was manually configured in the workflow. #1844
Enable support for Kotlin 1.9.20 when running with CodeQL CLI v2.13.4 through v2.14.3. #1853

2.21.4 - 14 Aug 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.2. #1831
Log a warning if the amount of available disk space runs low during a code scanning run. #1825
When downloading CodeQL bundle version 2.13.4 and later, cache these bundles in the Actions tool cache using a simpler version number. #1832
Fix an issue that first appeared in CodeQL Action v2.21.2 that prevented CodeQL invocations from being logged. #1833
We are rolling out a feature in August 2023 that will improve the quality of file coverage information. #1835

2.21.3 - 08 Aug 2023

We are rolling out a feature in August 2023 that will improve multi-threaded performance on larger runners. #1817
We are rolling out a feature in August 2023 that adds beta support for Project Lombok when analyzing Java. #1809
Reduce disk space usage when downloading the CodeQL bundle. #1820

2.21.2 - 28 Jul 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.1. #1797
Avoid duplicating the analysis summary within the logs. #1811

2.21.1 - 26 Jul 2023

Improve the handling of fatal errors from the CodeQL CLI. #1795
Add the sarif-output output to the analyze action that contains the path to the directory of the generated SARIF. #1799

2.21.0 - 19 Jul 2023

CodeQL Action now requires CodeQL CLI 2.9.4 or later. For more information, see the corresponding changelog entry for CodeQL Action version 2.20.4. #1724

2.20.4 - 14 Jul 2023

This is the last release of the Action that supports CodeQL CLI versions 2.8.5 to 2.9.3. These versions of the CodeQL CLI were deprecated on June 20, 2023 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 and will not be supported by the next release of the CodeQL Action (2.21.0).
- If you are using one of these versions, please update to CodeQL CLI version 2.9.4 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 2.8.5 and 2.9.3, you can replace 'github/codeql-action/@v2' by 'github/codeql-action/@v2.20.4' in your code scanning workflow to ensure you continue using this version of the CodeQL Action.
We are rolling out a feature in July 2023 that will slightly reduce the default amount of RAM used for query execution, in proportion to the runner's total memory. This will help to avoid out-of-memory failures on larger runners. #1760
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.14.0. #1762

2.20.3 - 06 Jul 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.5. #1743

2.20.2 - 03 Jul 2023

No user facing changes.

2.20.1 - 21 Jun 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.4. #1721
Experimental: add a new resolve-environment action which attempts to infer a configuration for the build environment that is required to build a given project. Do not use this in production as it is part of an internal experiment and subject to change at any time.

2.20.0 - 13 Jun 2023

Bump the version of the Action to 2.20.0. This ensures that users who received a Dependabot upgrade to cdcdbb5, which was mistakenly marked as Action version 2.13.4, continue to receive updates to the CodeQL Action. Full details in #1729

2.3.6 - 01 Jun 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.3. #1698

2.3.5 - 25 May 2023

Allow invalid URIs to be used as values to artifactLocation.uri properties. This reverses a change from #1668 that inadvertently led to stricter validation of some URI values. #1705
Gracefully handle invalid URIs when fingerprinting. #1694

2.3.4 - 24 May 2023

Updated the SARIF 2.1.0 JSON schema file to the latest from oasis-tcs/sarif-spec. #1668
We are rolling out a feature in May 2023 that will disable Python dependency installation for new users of the CodeQL Action. This improves the speed of analysis while having only a very minor impact on results. #1676
We are improving the way that CodeQL bundles are tagged to make it possible to easily identify bundles by their CodeQL semantic version. #1682
- As of CodeQL CLI 2.13.4, CodeQL bundles will be tagged using semantic versions, for example codeql-bundle-v2.13.4, instead of timestamps, like codeql-bundle-20230615.
- This change does not affect the majority of workflows, and we will not be changing tags for existing bundle releases.
- Some workflows with custom logic that depends on the specific format of the CodeQL bundle tag may need to be updated. For example, if your workflow matches CodeQL bundle tag names against a codeql-bundle-yyyymmdd pattern, you should update it to also recognize codeql-bundle-vx.y.z tags.
Remove the requirement for on.push and on.pull_request to trigger on the same branches. #1675

2.3.3 - 04 May 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.1. #1664
You can now configure CodeQL within your code scanning workflow by passing a config input to the init Action. See Using a custom configuration file for more information about configuring code scanning. #1590

2.3.2 - 27 Apr 2023

No user facing changes.

2.3.1 - 26 Apr 2023

No user facing changes.

2.3.0 - 21 Apr 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.13.0. #1649
Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.5. #1618

2.2.12 - 13 Apr 2023

Include the value of the GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT environment variable in the telemetry sent to GitHub. #1640
Improve the ease of debugging failed runs configured using default setup. The CodeQL Action will now upload diagnostic information to Code Scanning from failed runs configured using default setup. You can view this diagnostic information on the tool status page. #1619

2.2.11 - 06 Apr 2023

No user facing changes.

2.2.10 - 05 Apr 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.6. #1629

2.2.9 - 27 Mar 2023

Customers post-processing the SARIF output of the analyze Action before uploading it to Code Scanning will benefit from an improved debugging experience. #1598
- The CodeQL Action will now upload a SARIF file with debugging information to Code Scanning on failed runs for customers using upload: false. Previously, this was only available for customers using the default value of the upload input.
- The upload input to the analyze Action now accepts the following values:
  - always is the default value, which uploads the SARIF file to Code Scanning for successful and failed runs.
  - failure-only is recommended for customers post-processing the SARIF file before uploading it to Code Scanning. This option uploads debugging information to Code Scanning for failed runs to improve the debugging experience.
  - never avoids uploading the SARIF file to Code Scanning even if the code scanning run fails. This is not recommended for external users since it complicates debugging.
  - The legacy true and false options will be interpreted as always and failure-only respectively.

2.2.8 - 22 Mar 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.5. #1585

2.2.7 - 15 Mar 2023

No user facing changes.

2.2.6 - 10 Mar 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.4. #1561

2.2.5 - 24 Feb 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.3. #1543

2.2.4 - 10 Feb 2023

No user facing changes.

2.2.3 - 08 Feb 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.2. #1518

2.2.2 - 06 Feb 2023

Fix an issue where customers using the CodeQL Action with the CodeQL Action sync tool would not be able to obtain the CodeQL tools. #1517

2.2.1 - 27 Jan 2023

No user facing changes.

2.2.0 - 26 Jan 2023

Improve stability when choosing the default version of CodeQL to use in code scanning workflow runs on Actions on GitHub.com. #1475
- This change addresses customer reports of code scanning alerts on GitHub.com being closed and reopened during the rollout of new versions of CodeQL in the GitHub Actions runner images.
- No change is required for the majority of workflows, including:
  - Workflows on GitHub.com hosted runners using the latest version (v2) of the CodeQL Action.
  - Workflows on GitHub.com hosted runners that are pinned to specific versions of the CodeQL Action from v2.2.0 onwards.
  - Workflows on GitHub Enterprise Server.
- A change may be required for workflows on GitHub.com hosted runners that are pinned to specific versions of the CodeQL Action before v2.2.0 (e.g. v2.1.32):
  - Previously, these workflows would obtain the latest version of CodeQL from the Actions runner image.
  - Now, these workflows will download an older, compatible version of CodeQL from GitHub Releases. To use this older version, no change is required. To use the newest version of CodeQL, please update your workflows to reference the latest version of the CodeQL Action (v2).
- Internal changes
  - These changes will not affect the majority of code scanning workflows. Continue reading only if your workflow uses @actions/tool-cache or relies on the precise location of CodeQL within the Actions tool cache.
  - The tool cache now contains two recent CodeQL versions (previously one).
  - Each CodeQL version is located under a directory named after the release date and version number, e.g. CodeQL 2.11.6 is now located under CodeQL/2.11.6-20221211/x64/codeql (previously CodeQL/0.0.0-20221211/x64/codeql).
The maximum number of SARIF runs per file has been increased from 15 to 20 for users uploading SARIF files to GitHub.com. This change will help ensure that Code Scanning can process SARIF files generated by third-party tools that have many runs. See the GitHub API documentation for a list of all the limits around uploading SARIF. This change will be released to GitHub Enterprise Server as part of GHES 3.9.
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.1. #1498
Fix a bug that forced the init Action to run for at least two minutes on JavaScript. #1494

2.1.39 - 18 Jan 2023

CodeQL Action v1 is now deprecated, and is no longer updated or supported. For better performance, improved security, and new features, upgrade to v2. For more information, see this changelog post. #1467
Python automatic dependency installation will no longer fail for projects using Poetry that specify virtualenvs.options.no-pip = true in their poetry.toml. #1431
Avoid printing a stack trace and error message when the action fails to find the SHA at the current directory. This will happen in several non-error states and so we now avoid cluttering the log with this message. #1485

2.1.38 - 12 Jan 2023

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.12.0. #1466

2.1.37 - 14 Dec 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.6. #1433

2.1.36 - 08 Dec 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.5. #1412
Add a step that tries to upload a SARIF file for the workflow run when that workflow run fails. This will help better surface failed code scanning workflow runs. #1393
Python automatic dependency installation will no longer consider dependency code installed in venv as user-written, for projects using Poetry that specify virtualenvs.in-project = true in their poetry.toml. #1419

2.1.35 - 01 Dec 2022

No user facing changes.

2.1.34 - 25 Nov 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.4. #1391
Fixed a bug where some the init action and the analyze action would have different sets of experimental feature flags enabled. #1384

2.1.33 - 16 Nov 2022

Go is now analyzed in the same way as other compiled languages such as C/C++, C#, and Java. This completes the rollout of the feature described in CodeQL Action version 2.1.27. #1322
Bump the minimum CodeQL bundle version to 2.6.3. #1358

2.1.32 - 14 Nov 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.3. #1348
Update the ML-powered additional query pack for JavaScript to version 0.4.0. #1351

2.1.31 - 04 Nov 2022

The rb/weak-cryptographic-algorithm Ruby query has been updated to no longer report uses of hash functions such as MD5 and SHA1 even if they are known to be weak. These hash algorithms are used very often in non-sensitive contexts, making the query too imprecise in practice. For more information, see the corresponding change in the github/codeql repository. #1344

2.1.30 - 02 Nov 2022

Improve the error message when using CodeQL bundle version 2.7.2 and earlier in a workflow that runs on a runner image such as ubuntu-22.04 that uses glibc version 2.34 and later. #1334

2.1.29 - 26 Oct 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.2. #1320

2.1.28 - 18 Oct 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.1. #1294
Replace uses of GitHub Actions command set-output because it is now deprecated. See more information in the GitHub Changelog. #1301

2.1.27 - 06 Oct 2022

We are rolling out a feature of the CodeQL Action in October 2022 that changes the way that Go code is analyzed to be more consistent with other compiled languages like C/C++, C#, and Java. You do not need to alter your code scanning workflows. If you encounter any problems, please file an issue or open a private ticket with GitHub Support and request an escalation to engineering.

2.1.26 - 29 Sep 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.11.0. #1267

2.1.25 - 21 Sep 2022

We will soon be rolling out a feature of the CodeQL Action that stores some information used to make future runs faster in the GitHub Actions cache. Initially, this will only be enabled on JavaScript repositories, but we plan to add more languages to this soon. The new feature can be disabled by passing the trap-caching: false option to your workflow's init step, for example if you are already using the GitHub Actions cache for a different purpose and are near the storage limit for it.
Add support for Python automatic dependency installation with Poetry 1.2 #1258

2.1.24 - 16 Sep 2022

No user facing changes.

2.1.23 - 14 Sep 2022

Allow CodeQL packs to be downloaded from GitHub Enterprise Server instances, using the new registries input for the init action. #1221
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.5. #1240

2.1.22 - 01 Sep 2022

Downloading CodeQL packs has been moved to the init step. Previously, CodeQL packs were downloaded during the analyze step. #1218
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.4. #1224
The newly released Poetry 1.2 is not yet supported. In the most common case where the CodeQL Action is automatically installing Python dependencies, it will continue to install and use Poetry 1.1 on its own. However, in certain cases such as with self-hosted runners, you may need to ensure Poetry 1.1 is installed yourself.

2.1.21 - 25 Aug 2022

Improve error messages when the code scanning configuration file includes an invalid queries block or an invalid query-filters block. #1208
Fix a bug where Go build tracing could fail on Windows. #1209

2.1.20 - 22 Aug 2022

No user facing changes.

2.1.19 - 17 Aug 2022

Add the ability to filter queries from a code scanning run by using the query-filters option in the code scanning configuration file. #1098
In debug mode, debug artifacts are now uploaded even if a step in the Actions workflow fails. #1159
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.3. #1178
The combination of python2 and Pipenv is no longer supported. #1181

2.1.18 - 03 Aug 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.2. #1156

2.1.17 - 28 Jul 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.1. #1143

2.1.16 - 13 Jul 2022

You can now quickly debug a job that uses the CodeQL Action by re-running the job from the GitHub UI and selecting the "Enable debug logging" option. #1132
You can now see diagnostic messages produced by the analysis in the logs of the analyze Action by enabling debug mode. To enable debug mode, pass debug: true to the init Action, or enable step debug logging. This feature is available for CodeQL CLI version 2.10.0 and later. #1133

2.1.15 - 28 Jun 2022

CodeQL query packs listed in the packs configuration field will be skipped if their target language is not being analyzed in the current Actions job. Previously, this would throw an error. #1116
The combination of python2 and poetry is no longer supported. See actions/setup-python#374 for more details. #1124
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.10.0. #1123

2.1.14 - 22 Jun 2022

No user facing changes.

2.1.13 - 21 Jun 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.9.4. #1100

2.1.12 - 01 Jun 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.9.3. #1084

2.1.11 - 17 May 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.9.2. #1074

2.1.10 - 10 May 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.9.1. #1056
When wait-for-processing is enabled, the workflow will now fail if there were any errors that occurred during processing of the analysis results.

2.1.9 - 27 Apr 2022

Add working-directory input to the autobuild action. #1024
The analyze and upload-sarif actions will now wait up to 2 minutes for processing to complete after they have uploaded the results so they can report any processing errors that occurred. This behavior can be disabled by setting the wait-for-processing action input to "false". #1007
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.9.0.
Fix a bug where status reporting fails on Windows. #1042

2.1.8 - 08 Apr 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.5. #1014
Fix error where the init action would fail due to a GitHub API request that was taking too long to complete #1025

2.1.7 - 05 Apr 2022

A bug where additional queries specified in the workflow file would sometimes not be respected has been fixed. #1018

2.1.6 - 30 Mar 2022

[v2+ only] The CodeQL Action now runs on Node.js v16. #1000
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.4. #990
Fix a bug where an invalid commit_oid was being sent to code scanning when a custom checkout path was being used. #956

1.1.5 - 15 Mar 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.3.
The CodeQL runner is now deprecated and no longer being released. For more information, see CodeQL runner deprecation.
Fix two bugs that cause action failures with GHES 3.3 or earlier. #978
- Fix not a permitted key invalid requests with GHES 3.1 or earlier
- Fix RUNNER_ARCH environment variable must be set errors with GHES 3.3 or earlier

1.1.4 - 07 Mar 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.2. #950
Fix a bug where old results can be uploaded if the languages in a repository change when using a non-ephemeral self-hosted runner. #955

1.1.3 - 23 Feb 2022

Fix a bug where the CLR traces can continue tracing even after tracing should be stopped. #938

1.1.2 - 17 Feb 2022

Due to potential issues for GHES 3.1–3.3 customers who are using recent versions of the CodeQL Action via GHES Connect, the CodeQL Action now uses Node.js v12 rather than Node.js v16. #937

1.1.1 - 17 Feb 2022

The CodeQL CLI versions up to and including version 2.4.4 are not compatible with the CodeQL Action 1.1.1 and later. The Action will emit an error if it detects that it is being used by an incompatible version of the CLI. #931
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.1. #925

1.1.0 - 11 Feb 2022

The CodeQL Action now uses Node.js v16. #909
Beware that the CodeQL build tracer in this release (and in all earlier releases) is incompatible with Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. This incompatibility affects database extraction for compiled languages: cpp, csharp, go, and java. As a result, analyzing these languages with the windows-latest or windows-2022 Actions virtual environments is currently unsupported. If you use any of these languages, please use the windows-2019 Actions virtual environment or otherwise avoid these specific Windows versions until a new release fixes this incompatibility.

1.0.32 - 07 Feb 2022

Add sarif-id as an output for the upload-sarif and analyze actions. #889
Add ref and sha inputs to the analyze action, which override the defaults provided by the GitHub Action context. #889
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.8.0. #911

1.0.31 - 31 Jan 2022

Remove experimental message when using custom CodeQL packages. #888
Add a better warning message stating that experimental features will be disabled if the workflow has been triggered by a pull request from a fork or the security-events: write permission is not present. #882

1.0.30 - 24 Jan 2022

Display a better error message when encountering a workflow that runs the codeql-action/init action multiple times. #876
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.6. #877

1.0.29 - 21 Jan 2022

The feature to wait for SARIF processing to complete after upload has been disabled by default due to a bug in its interaction with pull requests from forks.

1.0.28 - 18 Jan 2022

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.5. #866
Fix a bug where SARIF files were failing upload due to an invalid test for unique categories. #872

1.0.27 - 11 Jan 2022

The analyze and upload-sarif actions will now wait up to 2 minutes for processing to complete after they have uploaded the results so they can report any processing errors that occurred. This behavior can be disabled by setting the wait-for-processing action input to "false". #855

1.0.26 - 10 Dec 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.3. #842

1.0.25 - 06 Dec 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.24 - 23 Nov 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.2. #827

1.0.23 - 16 Nov 2021

The upload-sarif action now allows multiple uploads in a single job, as long as they have different categories. #801
Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.1. #816

1.0.22 - 04 Nov 2021

The init step of the Action now supports ram and threads inputs to limit resource use of CodeQL extractors. These inputs also serve as defaults to the subsequent analyze step, which finalizes the database and executes queries. #738
When used with CodeQL 2.7.1 or above, the Action now includes custom query help in the analysis results uploaded to GitHub code scanning, if available. To add help text for a custom query, create a Markdown file next to the .ql file containing the query, using the same base name but the file extension .md. #804

1.0.21 - 28 Oct 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.7.0. #795

1.0.20 - 25 Oct 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.19 - 18 Oct 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.18 - 08 Oct 2021

Fixed a bug where some builds were no longer being traced correctly. #766

1.0.17 - 07 Oct 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.6.3. #761

1.0.16 - 05 Oct 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.15 - 22 Sep 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.6.2. #746

1.0.14 - 09 Sep 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.6.1. #733

1.0.13 - 06 Sep 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.6.0. #712
Update baseline lines of code counter for python. All multi-line strings are counted as code. #714
Remove old baseline LoC injection #715

1.0.12 - 16 Aug 2021

Update README to include a sample permissions block. #689

1.0.11 - 09 Aug 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.5.9. #687

1.0.10 - 03 Aug 2021

Fix an issue where a summary of diagnostics information from CodeQL was not output to the logs of the analyze step of the Action. #672

1.0.9 - 02 Aug 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.8 - 26 Jul 2021

Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.5.8. #631

1.0.7 - 21 Jul 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.6 - 19 Jul 2021

The init step of the Action now supports a source-root input as a path to the root source-code directory. By default, the path is relative to $GITHUB_WORKSPACE. #607
The init step will now try to install a few Python tools needed by this Action when running on a self-hosted runner. #616

1.0.5 - 12 Jul 2021

The analyze step of the Action now supports a skip-queries option to merely build the CodeQL database without analyzing. This functionality is not present in the runner. Additionally, the step will no longer fail if it encounters a finalized database, and will instead continue with query execution. #602
Update the warning message when the baseline lines of code count is unavailable. #608

1.0.4 - 28 Jun 2021

Fix RUNNER_TEMP environment variable must be set when using runner. #594
Fix counting of lines of code for C# projects. #586

1.0.3 - 23 Jun 2021

No user facing changes.

1.0.2 - 17 Jun 2021

Fix out of memory in hash computation. #550
Clean up logging during analyze results. #557
Add --finalize-dataset to database finalize call, freeing up some disk space after database creation. #558

1.0.1 - 07 Jun 2021

Pass the --sarif-group-rules-by-pack argument to CodeQL CLI invocations that generate SARIF. This means the SARIF rule object for each query will now be found underneath its corresponding query pack in runs[].tool.extensions. #546
Output the location of CodeQL databases created in the analyze step. #543

1.0.0 - 31 May 2021

Add this changelog file. #507
Improve grouping of analysis logs. Add a new log group containing a summary of metrics and diagnostics, if they were produced by CodeQL builtin queries. #515
Add metrics and diagnostics summaries from custom query suites to the analysis summary log group. #532

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