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This PR contains the following updates:

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vmactions/freebsd-vm action patch v1.5.4 → v1.5.9

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

v1.5.9

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Optional key suffix for the cache-after-prepare cache

New input cache-after-prepare-key-suffix: an optional value that is
appended as-is to the cache key of the image cached after prepare.
Changing it discards that cache and runs prepare again, without
editing prepare itself. Requested in
#​167

Usage

  - uses: actions/checkout@v7
  - uses: vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1
    with:
      cache-after-prepare: true
      cache-after-prepare-key-suffix: deps-${{ hashFiles('deps.sh') }}
      prepare: |
        sh deps.sh

  • The input is optional and empty by default. Left out, every cache
    key stays the same as in v1.5.8, so existing caches stay valid.
  • The prepare script and the sync method are still part of the key;
    the suffix is only added at the end.
  • hashFiles() is evaluated on the runner, relative to the workspace,
    so check out first. It returns an empty string when no file
    matches, and the key then no longer follows the file.

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BUILDER_VERSION 2.2.8 (unchanged)
ANYVM_VERSION 0.7.2 (unchanged)

v1.5.8

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FreeBSD on ubuntu-26.04 runners

The action's test matrix, 10.4, 11.4 and 13.2 - 15.1 across x86_64,
aarch64, riscv64 and powerpc64, now runs on ubuntu-26.04 and
ubuntu-26.04-arm: 313 of 314 jobs pass, and the 9p job is skipped as
before. 12.4, which the matrix leaves out, passes anyvm's own FreeBSD CI
on the same runners.

What failed on 26.04

With v1.5.7 on a 26.04 runner:

  • Every aarch64 job, on both runner types, timed out in the firmware.
    The serial log holds only the banner of 26.04's edk2 2025.11, which
    hangs under -cpu max:
    tianocore/edk2#11962

  • Every riscv64 job stopped at

    Error: QEMU binary 'qemu-system-riscv64' not found (searched PATH
    and common install locations).

    Since Ubuntu 25.10 the riscv64 emulator ships in a separate
    qemu-system-riscv package, no longer in qemu-system-misc.

  • With the emulator installed, 13.2, 13.3, 13.5, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2 and
    14.3 riscv64 still hung after the last PCI device attached, before
    "Timecounters tick", on QEMU 10.2.1.

x86_64 and powerpc64 were not affected.

Fixes

  • anyvm 0.7.2 reads the build stamp of the host's aarch64 UEFI image
    and, for 2025.08 and later, boots with Ubuntu 24.04's edk2 2024.02
    build instead, downloaded once and checked against a pinned sha256.
  • anyvm 0.7.2 runs 13.2 - 14.3 riscv64 with -cpu rv64,sstc=off on
    QEMU 10.1 and later; 14.4, 14.5 and 15.x keep Sstc.
  • The action installs qemu-system-riscv instead of qemu-system-misc
    for riscv64 on Ubuntu releases newer than 24.04.

Each fix engages only on a newer firmware, QEMU or Ubuntu release than
24.04 ships, so jobs on ubuntu-24.04 run as before. Details:
https://github.com/anyvm-org/anyvm/releases/tag/v0.7.2

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BUILDER_VERSION 2.2.8 (unchanged)
ANYVM_VERSION 0.7.1 -> 0.7.2

v1.5.7

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FreeBSD 10.4 and 11.4, and a fix for "Unsupported OS: freebsd"

New releases

FreeBSD 10.4 and 11.4 on x86_64, from image builder 2.2.8. The action
now offers 15 releases; the default is still 15.1.

  • uses: vmactions/freebsd-vm@​v1
    with:
    release: "10.4"

The leading-part form works too: release: "10" and release: "11" pick
the newest matching release, so the action now ships 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
and 15.

pkg.FreeBSD.org dropped its FreeBSD 10, 11 and 12 repositories long
ago, so these images take their packages from the preserved SGGS
mirror (https://mirror.sg.gs/freebsd-pkg/), which keeps FreeBSD's
original repository signatures; pkg verifies them against the
fingerprint shipped in the base system. Two things the VM runtime had
to learn to run them: 10.x and 11.x boot via SeaBIOS, since their
images have no EFI system partition, and 10.4 runs on QEMU's qemu64
CPU model, because FreeBSD 10's signal delivery panics when -cpu host
exposes modern XSAVE features.

12.4 x86_64 gains rsync and sshfs

The same mirror reaches 12.4 x86_64: the image now ships rsync and
fusefs-sshfs, so all five sync methods work there instead of nfs, scp
and tar only. 12.4 aarch64 stays base-only; no aarch64 packages exist
for FreeBSD 12.

Fixed: a lost network probe no longer fails as "Unsupported OS"

#​163: a job with release: '14.0' failed after three minutes with

Error: Unsupported OS: freebsd. Builder repository
anyvm-org/freebsd-builder not found.

although the image exists. A single failed probe of the release
download URL sent the run down the GitHub REST API. The action never
passed a token, so that request was unauthenticated and shared the
60/hour per-IP limit with every other job on the runner IP; the 403
was retried for three minutes and then reported as an unsupported OS.
Two changes close this:

  • New input: token. It defaults to github.token and is handed to the
    VM runtime, so the release lookup is authenticated (1000 requests
    per hour per repository instead of 60 shared). Nothing to change
    in your workflow; set it only if you want a different token.
  • anyvm 0.7.1: the release-URL probe retries transient failures and
    only a 404 means the image is absent; a rate-limited 403 or a 429
    stops the retry loop at once and reports the reset time; "the API
    could not be asked" and "this repository does not exist" are
    distinct outcomes, so a connectivity failure is reported as one;
    and the Authorization header no longer follows a cross-host
    redirect.

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BUILDER_VERSION 2.2.7 -> 2.2.8
ANYVM_VERSION 0.6.9 -> 0.7.1

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


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