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Why: the desktop pipeline only ran on release tags, so a change that broke it merged green and failed the next release, for whoever cut it. 61 of the last 100 desktop runs failed. Most failures came from changes in this repository (a CEF-only compile error, Cargo workspace and lockfile drift, a node_modules hash, DMG sizing, linker selection after a toolchain bump) that a build on their own pull request would have caught. The rest came from outside it (Apple stapling, runner images) and went unnoticed until a tag. What: - Run `Build Desktop on Tag` on pull requests that touch desktop-only build inputs: apps/web/tauri, the desktop Nix files, flake and toolchain pins, nix-support, and the workflow itself. Fork and Dependabot pull requests are skipped because they get no secrets. - Pull requests use the release jobs unchanged, but sign ad-hoc, skip notarization, uploads, publishing, and the macOS cache save (which prunes the shared cache to one build's closure). - Build main nightly with full signing and notarization, publishing nothing, so outside drift fails a canary instead of a release. - Signing without the Developer ID now fails release runs instead of silently falling back to ad-hoc and failing at notarization. - Alert on nightly and release failures only; pull request authors see their own checks. Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
Why: v2026.10.22.3 failed because #8566 made the DMG job require MACOS_DEVELOPER_ID_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_BASE64 before anyone added the secret. Secrets live in repository settings, outside any diff, so review and tests cannot see a missing one; the earlier updater-key failures were the same class. What: - Add a `Check release secrets` job whose list is generated from every `secrets.NAME` the other desktop jobs read. A change that starts reading a new secret fails this check on its own pull request until the secret is configured; no list needs updating. - Alert when the check fails on a release or nightly run. - Declare the provisioning profile secret on the reusable DMG workflow, which had drifted from the job it wraps. Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
Why: GitHub is moving the `ubuntu-latest` label to Ubuntu 26 (announced on desktop runs since Oct 19). The ref, upload, and updater-publish jobs would change images under a release with no diff to review, and the publish job depends on the Nix setup action behaving the same. What: - Run the hosted desktop jobs on `ubuntu-24.04`, the image they use today. The agent daemon's upload job shares the helper and gets the same pin. Co-authored-by: teo <synoet@users.noreply.github.com>
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| fn check_release_secrets(names: &BTreeSet<&str>) -> Job { | ||
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| |step, name| step.add_env((*name, format!("${{{{ secrets.{name} }}}}"))), |
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Keep release signing and Doppler credentials out of pull-request runs.
The check-release-secrets job depends only on resolve-ref and has no if guard. resolve-ref runs for same-repository pull requests, so this job runs on them too. It passes the Developer ID certificate, its password, the provisioning profile, the Doppler token, and POSTHOG_API_KEY to step environment variables.
The existing jobs withhold the signing and Doppler secrets from pull-request runs. The certificate import step is guarded by github.event_name != 'pull_request'. The Doppler step and publish-installers are guarded the same way. This job has no equivalent guard.
A pull-request run uses the workflow file from the pull request's merge commit. .github/workflows/build_desktop_on_tag.yml is in the pull request path filter. A same-repository pull request can therefore change the script that reads these values before review.
To keep these values out of pull-request runs, add github.event_name != 'pull_request' to the job condition in tooling/xtask/crates/xtask_workflows/src/workflows/build_desktop_on_tag.rs. Then run cargo x workflows and commit the regenerated YAML. The check then runs only on tag pushes, schedules, and manual dispatches. Pull-request runs lose early detection of unconfigured secrets. A pull-request run cannot test secret presence without access to the secret value.
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Add a job-level condition to the check-release-secrets job so it runs only when
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Why
The desktop pipeline (
Build Desktop on Tag) only ran on release tags, so anything that broke it merged green and failed the next release for whoever cut it. 61 of the last 100 desktop runs failed, including a run of 17 straight failures from Sep 16 to Oct 1. The latest, v2026.10.22.3, failed because #8566 started requiringMACOS_DEVELOPER_ID_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_BASE64before the secret existed.I classified the 56 failed runs whose logs are still available (Jul 27 to Oct 23):
Most of these came from changes in this repo that a build on their own PR would have caught. The rest came from outside it, and nothing exercised that path between releases.
How it works
PRs run the release jobs unchanged, except that they sign ad-hoc and skip notarization, artifact uploads, and the macOS cache save.
What
build_desktop_on_tag.rs): trigger on PRs touching desktop-only inputs:apps/web/tauri/**, the desktop Nix files,nix-support/**, flake and toolchain pins, the Nix actions, and the workflow itself. That's about 9% of commits on main last month (~4/day). Fork and Dependabot PRs are skipped because they get no secrets.build_dmg_on_tag.rs,build_appimage_on_tag.rs): the Developer ID step is skipped and a PR-only step sets ad-hoc signing. Notarization, CloudKit prep, uploads, and the cache save are skipped too. The save prunes the shared cache to one build's closure, so a PR must not evict main's entries. A test fails if any build step that reads a signing/notarization secret or uploads can run on a PR.configure_signing_identity.sh): a release run without the Developer ID now fails immediately. Before, it silently fell back to ad-hoc and failed at notarization 30 minutes later.secrets.NAMEthe other desktop jobs read. A PR that starts reading a new secret fails until the secret is configured, with no list to maintain. On this change's base it checks the five current secrets, including the provisioning profile.alert-native-build-failures.yml): skip desktop runs triggered by PRs (authors see their own checks) and report a failed secrets check.ubuntu-24.04for the hosted desktop jobs. GitHub has been warning on desktop runs since Oct 19 thatubuntu-latestis moving to Ubuntu 26. The agent daemon's upload job shares the helper and gets the same pin.build_dmg_on_tag.yml, which had drifted from the job it wraps.desktop-cef/AGENTS.mdandsrc-tauri/README.md.This PR changes
build_desktop_on_tag.yml, so it runs the new PR build on itself.Follow-ups
Web App Status Check) or a ruleset that tolerates skips.Cargo.lockand frontend-only changes are left out of the PR filter (about 20% of commits). The nightly covers them within a day. For example, a wasm-bindgen bump must match thewasm-bindgen-clipin innix/tauri-desktop.nix.