1. Restructures the README into installation, quickstart, deployment, configuration, jobs and operation, and shortens it to user-facing prose. Option details are left to `config.example.yaml` and `docs/`, existing heading anchors are kept where possible.
2. FreeBSD builds used the Docker stub, so `docker://` labels, services and Docker actions failed there. The Docker code works on FreeBSD against a remote daemon, so it is enabled, and host jobs report `runner.os` as `FreeBSD`.
3. `make build` on Windows now writes `gitea-runner.exe`, taking the suffix from `go env GOEXE`.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1367
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
1. Host mode is selected only through `runs-on` again, as in upstream act.
1. A workflow volume that `valid_volumes` drops no longer displaces the runner's own socket, workspace, tool cache or `/var/run/act` mount, so `/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock` works on hosts whose daemon socket lives elsewhere.
1. `docker://` is stripped from job and service images, as on GitHub.
1. Each created service's log is printed at job end, and service log dumps no longer run workflow commands, as on GitHub.
1. A `--privileged` dropped because privileged mode is off now logs a warning.
1. README: the proxy variables change per step through `env:` or for the rest of a job through `$GITHUB_ENV`, `container.env` does not override them.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1253
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Make cache requests go through the runner and remove outbound traffic from the cache server. The runner forwards them to `cache.external_server` when one is set, and attaches itself to each job network so jobs can reach it.
Benefits:
1. Jobs need no http proxy rules for the cache server, which `@actions/http-client` mishandles for CIDR ranges in `no_proxy` (https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2495).
2. Only runners reach a shared cache server, which needs no route to Gitea.
3. A runner container sharing the host Docker socket now caches, where jobs previously could not reach it.
Breaks:
1. Jobs that reach `external_server` but not their runner, such as a remote `DOCKER_HOST`. The built-in cache has always needed that reachability, so both modes now agree. Set `cache.host` and `cache.port` to an address those jobs reach.
2. Jobs on `container.network: bridge`, where Docker rejects the alias, so the runner cannot attach and their cache fails as it does today. Leave `container.network` empty, or name a user-defined network.
*Written by Claude.*
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1229
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Implement speedups to job start and shutdown.
- Create the job container while services are still becoming healthy, and poll their health at a flat one second instead of a 2s to 32s doubling backoff
- Pull each service image once instead of twice, and fetch a warm action cache once instead of twice
- Report the job result before reclaiming its volumes, and reap volumes stranded by a runner that died mid-job
| Step | Scenario | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Complete job | Large workspace volume | 4.2s | 0.4s |
| Set up job | One service, 2s health interval | 7.08s | 3.26s |
| Set up job | Two cached actions from github.com | 1.81s | 1.34s |
| Set up job | Two cached actions from gitea.com | 2.42s | 1.95s |
| Set up job | Two actions, cold action cache | 6.62s | unchanged |
| Set up job | Minimal job, no services or actions | 0.62s | unchanged |
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 5
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1218
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1213
Fix the DooD regression that mounts `/var/run/docker.sock` as a directory. Keep the Docker proxy available through job and post steps. Clean stale resources before opening it, then remove containers before their networks and volumes during teardown.
Use a unique filesystem probe and preserve socket ownership. Fall back to direct access when proxying is unsupported. Preserve exec output and clean up active streams and failed starts.
Add a real Docker job test for mounted socket access, post steps and resource cleanup.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1215
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
1. Add `GITEA_DOCKER_WORKSPACE` which holds the workspace path as the daemon sees it, enabling `${GITEA_DOCKER_WORKSPACE:-.}/data:/app/data` in a compose file without having to resort to `bind_workdir` (which causes much more problems like breaking `actions/cache` because of unstable workspace paths).
2. Add container/network/volume cleanup for containers started within jobs, for example via `docker compose` inside a job. It works by running a lightweight docker socket proxy and injecting a `com.gitea.runner.job` label into every container creation and that label is used to remove containers started by that job at the end. Perf impact of this is near-zero.
Docs: https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/535
Assisted by Claude (Fable 5.1).
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1204
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Revert #1136 and use actionslib instead.
revert chore: bump the module path to `/v3`, take the version from the VCS stamp (#1136)
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/[email protected]: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1148
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/[email protected]: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
1. Drop `Masterminds/semver`, the Docker API version check needs dotted-numeric comparison and moby's client ships `versions.GreaterThanOrEqualTo`.
1. A malformed API version now reports as unsupported instead of panicking.
1. Drop `pkg/errors`, nothing used stack traces, `Wrap` or `Cause`.
1. Drop its depguard rule, and the `io/ioutil` one that only masked staticcheck's `SA1019`.
1. Re-sync `act/container/docker_cli.go` and `act/container/docker_cli_test.go`, copies of docker/cli's `opts.go` and `opts_test.go`, from a March and a 2022 commit to the version go.mod pins.
1. Record the local deviations in each header.
1. Fix `invalidParameter`, which lacked `Unwrap`, hiding the wrapped cause from `errors.Is` and `errors.As`.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1132
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Leaked per-job networks each hold a subnet of the daemon's address pool and nothing reclaimed them, so a host eventually fails every job with `all predefined address pools have been fully subnetted`. This is what CI hit in https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/actions/runs/742177.
- teardown no longer loses a container, and its network with it: a failed `ContainerRemove` was reported as success, a container whose id was never learned was skipped, and the daemon's own `AutoRemove` teardown was raced
- the idle cleanup reclaims what teardown cannot: networks carry `com.gitea.runner.uuid`, so a runner only touches its own, and a cutoff keeps a job starting during the pass out of scope
- pull failures reported mid-stream were discarded, surfacing later as a confusing `No such image`; they now propagate, and fall back to a local copy instead of failing the job
- `NetworkCreate` retries pool exhaustion briefly, then says which knobs to turn
- digest-pinned images are not re-pulled, and removal kills first so it never waits out Podman's stop timeout (measured 10.1s → 0.09s per container)
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1124
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/859
Migration approach mirrors [actions-oss/act-cli#154](https://github.com/actions-oss/act-cli/pull/154).
### Dependency changes
- `github.com/docker/docker` v25.0.15 → **removed** (v29 doesn't exist as docker/docker; the project moved to moby/moby)
- `github.com/docker/cli` v25.0.7 → v29.4.3
- `github.com/docker/go-connections` v0.6.0 → v0.7.0
- `github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers` v0.9.5 → v0.9.6
- `github.com/moby/go-archive` added at v0.2.0
- `github.com/moby/moby/api` added at v1.54.2
- `github.com/moby/moby/client` added at v0.4.1
- `github.com/moby/buildkit` removed (only used `dockerignore.ReadAll`, swapped for `moby/patternmatcher/ignorefile.ReadAll` directly)
- `github.com/containerd/errdefs` v0.3.0 → v1.0.0
### Migration
- v28: type aliases moved to their subpackages (`types.{Container,Image,Network,Exec}*` → `container/image/network/...`); deprecated APIs replaced (`ImageInspectWithRaw`, `client.IsErrNotFound`, `archive.CanonicalTarNameForPath`, `opts.ValidateMACAddress`, `ListOpts.GetAll`)
- v29: structural client redesign — every `cli.X(ctx, ...)` call switched to options-everywhere/Result-typed signatures, `ContainerExec*` → `Exec*`, `ContainerWait` returns a struct with `Result`/`Error` channels, `Tty`→`TTY`, `Copy*Container` takes options struct, `client.NewClientWithOpts` → `client.New`. `pkg/stdcopy` moved to `moby/moby/api/pkg/stdcopy`. The vendored copy of `cli/command/container/opts.go` was refreshed from cli v29 (now uses `netip.Addr` for IPs, port-set conversion helpers). A small local `parsePlatform` helper centralises the `os/arch[/variant]` parsing previously inlined into multiple call sites.
### Behaviour preservation
The migration introduced several behavioural shifts vs the v25 client; all were caught in review and reverted/fixed in follow-up commits:
- `GetDockerClient`: cli v29's `Ping(NegotiateAPIVersion: true)` returns errors that the old `NegotiateAPIVersion` silently swallowed. Restored best-effort behaviour (warn-log + continue) so daemons with blocked `_ping` or API < 1.40 keep working. The SSH-helper `client.New` call no longer inherits `client.FromEnv`, matching the old `NewClientWithOpts(WithHost, WithDialContext)` so `DOCKER_API_VERSION`/`DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY` don't leak into the SSH-tunneled client
- `parsePlatform`: malformed input now returns an explicit error instead of silently dropping to "no platform constraint" and pulling the host-default architecture. Single-segment (`"linux"`), 4+-segment (`"linux/arm/v7/extra"`), and trailing-slash (`"linux/arm/"`) inputs are all rejected
- `LoadDockerAuthConfig`/`LoadDockerAuthConfigs`: `config.LoadDefaultConfigFile(nil)` panics on a malformed config file (it does `fmt.Fprintln` on the nil `io.Writer`). Switched to `config.Load(config.Dir())` so load errors reach the logger and the panic path is gone. Restored the old behaviour of returning `config.Load` and `GetAuthConfig` errors to the caller (the v29 refactor had silently downgraded them to warn-only). A `reference.ParseNormalizedNamed` failure on the image string falls through to the `docker.io` default rather than aborting, since the old string-based hostname extraction was infallible
Test assertions also updated for two upstream error-message string shifts (`go-connections` port-range parser; `cli/opts` envfile BOM check). Added unit-test coverage for the new `parsePlatform` helper, locking in the intentional limits (single-segment, 4+-segment, and trailing-slash platforms rejected).
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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/943
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Merges the `gitea.com/gitea/act` fork into this repository as the `act/`
directory and consumes it as a local package. The `replace github.com/nektos/act
=> gitea.com/gitea/act` directive is removed; act's dependencies are merged
into the root `go.mod`.
- Imports rewritten: `github.com/nektos/act/pkg/...` → `gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/act/...`
(flattened — `pkg/` boundary dropped to match the layout forgejo-runner adopted).
- Dropped act's CLI (`cmd/`, `main.go`) and all upstream project files; kept
the library tree + `LICENSE`.
- Added `// Copyright <year> The Gitea Authors ...` / `// Copyright <year> nektos`
headers to 104 `.go` files.
- Pre-existing act lint violations annotated inline with
`//nolint:<linter> // pre-existing issue from nektos/act`.
`.golangci.yml` is unchanged vs `main`.
- Makefile test target: `-race -short` (matches forgejo-runner).
- Pre-existing integration test failures fixed: race in parallel executor
(atomic counters); TestSetupEnv / command_test / expression_test /
run_context_test updated to match gitea fork runtime; TestJobExecutor and
TestActionCache gated on `testing.Short()`.
Full `gitea/act` commit history is reachable via the second parent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude (Opus 4.7) <[email protected]>
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