v1.8.0

Changes

• Bumped dependencies
  • Updated upload-artifact@v4 to upload-artifact@v5.
• Configured CODEOWNERS file.

Documentation

• Adjusted README.

Unit Tests

• Updated download-artifact@v4 to download-artifact@v6.
• Updated checkout@v4 to checkout@v5.
• Updated GitHub Action images to use macos-15 and windows-2025.

v1.7.2

Changes

• Fixed Bash coding style.
• Do not install Bash on macOS via homebrew.

v1.7.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed removing hidden files, if include-hidden-files isn't set.
  • Install newer Bash via homebrew, because old Bash 3.2 on macOS doesn't handle strings correctly.

Documentation

• Removed mentioned issues from README, as the issues were solved.
• Documented further features in the README.

v1.7.0

Changes

• Use GNU tar on macOS too.
• Improved YAML coding style.

Bug Fixes

• By using GNU tar, dot-files can be deleted from tarball, if include-hidden-files is not set.
  See #20

Documentation

• Updated README due to GNU tar changes for macOS.
• Added shields.

Unit Tests

• All tests are now passing.
  See #20.

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Related Issues and Pull-Requests

• #20

v1.6.0

Changes

• Renamed parameter debug to investigate.
  (Same as in pyTooling/download-artifact action.)

Documentation

• Removed link to #21, because it's solved.

v1.5.0

New Features

• Implemented new debug parameter to display tarball contents.
• Implemented error and warning reporting to pipeline overview.
• Partially implemented new mode parameter switch new and old behavior.

Changes

• Enclosed some console outputs in collapsible sections.
• Enhanced statistics for gathered items in a tarball:
  • Directory count
  • File count

Bug Fixes

• Based on tarball statistics, the broken feature: if-no-files-found has been fixed.
  See also #21.
• Excluding hidden files from artifact has been fixed for runner OS' providing GNU tar.
  Runner OS' using BSD tar haven't been fixed.
  See also #20.

Documentation

• Documented additional features in README.
• Documented another BSD tar limitation.

Unit Tests

• New check-artifact-content verification action.
• Enhanced check-directory-content to check also for unexpected files.
• Action create-files also created hidden files (dot files).
• Restructured jobs and dependencies.

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Related Issues and PRs:

• fixes #21

v1.4.0

New Features

• Set tar options --gname=root, --gid=0, --uname=root, --uid=0 for BSD tar (macOS).

Changes

• Improved tar options from --owner=0, --group=0 to --owner=root:0, --group=root:0 for GNU tar (Linux, Windows).
• Replaced echo by printf.
• Reworked color code escaping.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect color code ANSI_Y.

Documentation

• Listed competing GitHub Actions.

Unit Tests

• Completely reworked testing of uploaded artifacts and their contents.
• Reworked inspection jobs how actions/upload-artifact behaves.

v1.3.2

Bug Fixes

• Disbaled --owner=0 and --group=0 for BSD tar (macOS).

Documentation

• Documented competing GitHub Actions.

v1.3.1

New Features

• Enhanced README
  • Documented input and output parameters.
  • Documented the usage.
  • Documented differences/fixes to actions/upload-artifact.
  • Documented pitfalls of tar on macOS.
• Added MIT license text.
• Added GitHub repository files.

Changes

• Collect files in tarball with userid=0 and groupid=0.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected data types in YAML

v1.3.0

New Features

• Added required branding for the marketplace.

Changes

• Changed tar name to __pyTooling_upload_artifact__.tar.