A GitHub’s release feature allows to provide links to download specific versions of a published software.
However, if you need to download the latest version of a package, you will have to update the version number in the URL each time a new release is made.
This post shows how to make a direct link to download the latest release of a file from an asset on GitHub. (more…)
A workflow in a GitHub Actions can be optimized by splitting it into several jobs, which run in parallel by default.
Parallel jobs is a great way to improve build times and provide a faster feedback to your development & QA teams.
This note shows how to run jobs in parallel in the Github Actions. (more…)
If in a GitHub Actions workflow you try to check out a repository from an URL with a self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by a non-trusted certificate authority (CA), you will get this error:
request to <URL> failed, reason: self signed certificate in certificate chain
In this note i will show how to fix the self-signed certificate error in GitHub Actions by adding trusted CA certificates. (more…)