Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 5 · Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2026

Update actions/checkout action to v6.0.2

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What changed: The GitHub Actions actions/checkout action was patched to v6.0.2, fixing tag handling so that annotations and explicit fetch‑tags are preserved.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Update a CI workflow to use actions/[email protected] and verify that tags are correctly fetched.
Source: github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3914

Understand it, then run it

The GitHub Actions actions/checkout action was updated from version v6.0.0 to v6.0.2. The change fixes how tags are handled during a checkout. Previously, when a repository had annotated tags or when the workflow requested explicit tag fetching, those tags could be lost or mis‑handled. With the new patch, the action now preserves both annotations and explicit fetch‑tags, so the checked‑out repository contains the same tag data as the remote.

Run it now

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// This program demonstrates a simple output to show that the
// Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024) environment is working.
// The change to actions/checkout does not affect this code.
fn main() {
    println!("Tag handling preserved in actions/checkout v6.0.2");
}

What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)

Tag handling preserved in actions/checkout v6.0.2

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