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Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 27 · Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026

Update actions/checkout to v6.0.3

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What changed
The Rust team updated the checkout action to v6.0.3, fixing SHA‑256 repository initialization and expanding merge‑commit SHA regex.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Change a workflow to actions/[email protected] and run it against a SHA‑256 repo.
Source
github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3979

Understand it, then run it

Run it now

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// This program demonstrates the issue that the v6.0.3 update fixes.
// In a real CI workflow, the actions/checkout action would initialize
// a repository that uses the SHA‑256 hash algorithm.  The old
// implementation would fail to set up the repository correctly.
// Here we simply print a message to illustrate the problem that
// the update resolves.

fn main() {
    println!("If you run actions/checkout v6.0.2 on a SHA‑256 repo, it may fail to init.");
    println!("Upgrading to v6.0.3 fixes that initialization bug and expands merge‑commit SHA matching.");
}

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

If you run actions/checkout v6.0.2 on a SHA‑256 repo, it may fail to init.
Upgrading to v6.0.3 fixes that initialization bug and expands merge‑commit SHA matching.

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