Wrong mongodb version install out of nowhere

[Rockylars]

Yesterday i was working on some code and it worked fine as it always has, i'm still using Ubuntu 22.04 and pecl Mongo 1.17.0

Today i make a commit that changes nothing on composer but does add some extra flags to my PHPUnit steps, but suddenly it's trying to install pecl Mongo 2.1.0. I've locked it to the version now but it makes it take a whole extra minute.

If you remove the version from the mongo install, it runs fine but installs the wrong version, without it it will take an extra minute to install it but will eventually install it.

        -   name: Setup PHP with tools
            timeout-minutes: 1
            uses: shivammathur/[email protected]
            with:
                php-version: 8.2
                extensions: none, bcmath, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, hash, iconv, json, libxml, mbstring, mongodb-1.17.0, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, PDO, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, Phar, posix, random, readline, redis, Reflection, session, SimpleXML, sodium, SPL, sqlite3, standard, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, Zend OPCache, zlib
                coverage: none
                ini-values: memory_limit="1G"
                tools: composer:v2

I do use a mongo service as well, but that one hasn't changed.

      mongo:
        image: mongo:latest
        env:
          MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
          MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
        ports:
          - 27017:27017

Does anyone have any idea? I haven't changed anything, i was always using setup-php 2.31.1, upping it to 2.34.0 also changed no behaviour.

[Rockylars]

I at least found a workaround, I could not get any info out of it with debug logging, but giving it an extra minute somehow solves the install process. Still unsure why it is suddenly installing the wrong Mongo version.

[shivammathur]

By default, the action will setup the latest stable version of the extension that works with the PHP version. That will be the latest 2.x release of mongodb now for PHP 8.2. If you want to install a lower version or 1.x, the solution is to specify the exact version. It builds and installs the lower version and that takes the extra minute. Hope that helps.

[Rockylars]

Yeah but why now all of a sudden, that version was released ages ago? I'm guessing GitHub updated their runners or something.