Breaking Changes

1. Action is now stateful: If the action ends because of operations-per-run then the next run will start from the first unprocessed issue skipping the issues processed during the previous run(s). The state is reset when all the issues are processed. This should be considered for scheduling workflow runs.
2. Version 9 of this action updated the runtime to Node.js 20. All scripts are now run with Node.js 20 instead of Node.js 16 and are affected by any breaking changes between Node.js 16 and 20.

What Else Changed

1. Performance optimization that removes unnecessary API calls by @dsame #1033 fixes #792
2. Logs displaying current github API rate limit by @dsame #1032 addresses #1029

For more information, please read the action documentation and its section about statefulness

New Contributors

• @jmeridth made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/984
• @nikolai-laevskii made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/1020
• @dusan-trickovic made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/1056
• @aparnajyothi-y made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/1110

Full Changelog: https://github.com/actions/stale/compare/v8...v9.0.0

In scope of this release we updated actions/core to 1.10.0 for v4 and fixed issues operation count.

In scope of this release we updated actions/core to 1.10.0 for v5: https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/958

⚠️ This version contains breaking changes ⚠️

What's Changed

• New option labels-to-remove-when-stale enables users to specify list of comma delimited labels that will be removed when the issue or PR becomes stale by @panticmilos https://github.com/actions/stale/issues/770
• Skip deleting the branch in the upstream of a forked repo by @dsame https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/913
• abort the build on the error by @dsame in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/935

Breaking Changes

• In this release we prevent scenarios when the build is not interrupted on some exceptions, which led to successful builds when they are supposed to fail

Example

name: 'Remove labels when the issue or PR becomes stale'
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '30 1 * * *'

permissions:
    pull-request: write

jobs:
  stale:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v8
        with:
          labels-to-remove-when-stale: 'label1,label2'

⚠️ This version contains breaking changes ⚠️

What's Changed

• Allow daysBeforeStale options to be float by @irega in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/841
• Use cache in check-dist.yml by @jongwooo in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/876
• fix print outputs step in existing workflows by @irega in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/859
• Update issue and PR templates, add/delete workflow files by @IvanZosimov in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/880
• Update how stale handles exempt items by @johnsudol in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/874

Breaking Changes

• In this release we prevent this action from managing the stale label on items included in exempt-issue-labels and exempt-pr-labels
• We decided that this is outside of the scope of this action, and to be left up to the maintainer

New Contributors

• @irega made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/841
• @jongwooo made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/876
• @IvanZosimov made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/880
• @johnsudol made their first contribution in https://github.com/actions/stale/pull/874

Full Changelog: https://github.com/actions/stale/compare/v6...v7.0.0

Update @actions/core to 1.10.0 #839

Full Changelog: https://github.com/actions/stale/compare/v6.0.0...v6.0.1

⚠️ Breaking change ⚠️

Issues/PRs default close-issue-reason is now not_planned(#789)

Features:
New option include-only-assigned enables users to process only issues/PRs that are already assigned. If there is no assignees and this option is set, issue will not be processed per: issue/596

Fixes:
Fix date comparison edge case PR/816

Dependency Updates:
PR/812

fixes a bug introduced in #717

fixed in #775

[5.1.0]

Don't process stale issues right after they're marked stale
Add close-issue-reason option #764#772
Various dependabot/dependency updates

Features

• Update Runtime to node16

Features

• Ability to exempt draft PRs

⚠️ This version contains breaking changes ⚠️

Features

• options: simplify config by removing skip stale message options (#457) (6ec637d), closes #405 #455
• output: print output parameters (#458) (3e6d35b)

Bug Fixes

• dry-run: forbid mutations in dry-run (#500) (f1017f3), closes #499
• logs: coloured logs (#465) (5fbbfba)
• operations: fail fast the current batch to respect the operations limit (#474) (5f6f311), closes #466
• label comparison: make label comparison case insensitive #517, closes #516
• filtering comments by actor could have strange behavior: "stale" comments are now detected based on if the message is the stale message not who made the comment(#519), fixes #441, #509, #518

Breaking Changes

• The options skip-stale-issue-message and skip-stale-pr-message were removed. Instead, setting the options stale-issue-message and stale-pr-message will be enough to let the stale workflow add a comment. If the options are unset, a comment will not be added which was the equivalent of setting skip-stale-issue-message to true.
• The operations-per-run option will be more effective. After migrating, you could face a failed-fast process workflow if you let the default value (30) or set it to a small number. In that case, you will see a warning at the end of the logs (if enabled) indicating that the workflow was stopped sooner to avoid consuming too much API calls. In most cases, you can just increase this limit to make sure to process everything in a single run.

• Enhance logs to provide more detailed output
• Split certain options to be more granular for Pull Requests vs Issues:
  • any-of-issue-labels
  • any-of-pr-labels
  • remove-issue-stale-when-updated
  • remove-pr-stale-when-updated
• Dependency updates

• Add any-of-labels option
• Add only-issue-labels, only-pr-labels
• Clean up, testing and dependency version bumps

• Bug fixes, refactoring and milestone exemption

• Minor bugfixes and logging improvements

• Add milestone exemption
• Add start date filtering
• Add conditional days before close to different types of issues
• Better logging and updated dependencies

• Update label handling to account for localization
• Update dependencies

• Don't print untrusted info to STDOUT.