feat(github-action)!: Update lycheeverse/lychee-action action to v2.9.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
lycheeverse/lychee-action	action	major	v1.10.0 -> v2.9.0

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lycheeverse/lychee-action

v2.9.0

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Summary

This release updates the default lychee version from v0.23.0 to v0.24.2.

The main reason for this release is compatibility with the new lychee 0.24.x release artifacts. Starting with lychee v0.24.0, the archive layout changed, and the lychee binary may now be packaged inside a subdirectory. lychee-action now detects that layout automatically, so users can upgrade without changing their workflows.

If you use:

uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2

you will get the new version once the floating v2 tag has been updated. If you pin exact versions, update to:

uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2.9.0

What’s new from lychee v0.24.x

Better diagnostics

lychee now reports line and column numbers for detected links. This makes broken link reports easier to act on, especially in larger documentation sites or generated reports.

Text fragment checking

lychee can now check URL text fragments, such as links containing #:~:text=.... This helps catch links that point to a valid page but no longer points to the intended highlighted text.

Sitemap support

lychee can now read sitemap.xml inputs. This is useful for checking published websites or generated documentation sites where the sitemap is the easiest source of URLs to validate.

JUnit output

lychee now supports JUnit output. This makes it easier to integrate link checking results with CI systems and test reporting tools that understand JUnit XML.

Redirect and remap visibility

lychee can now show redirects and remaps more clearly. This helps explain why a URL was checked as a different final URL and makes debugging link-checking behavior easier.

Multiple config files

lychee now supports multiple configuration files and expanded config handling. This is useful for repositories that split documentation, website, or package-specific link-checking settings.

Timeout handling

lychee can now accept timeouts explicitly. This gives users more control over how strict their link checks should be for flaky or slow endpoints.

Fixes and reliability improvements

Fixed lychee 0.24.x archive compatibility

lychee-action now handles the new lychee release archive layout by detecting whether the lychee binary is inside a subdirectory.

This fixes compatibility with lychee 0.24.x.

More stable installation path

The action now installs lychee into $RUNNER_TEMP/lychee/bin instead of $HOME.

This avoids failures on runners where $HOME differs between composite action steps. In those environments, the action could add one directory to PATH but install the binary somewhere else, causing lychee: command not found.

Safer automatic lychee version updates

The workflow that checks for new lychee releases now guards against null release versions before creating update PRs. This prevents invalid automated PRs such as “Update lycheeVersion to null”.

Dependency updates

• Updated actions/checkout from v6 to v7
• Updated actions/cache from v5 to v6

Upstream lychee changelog

For the full lychee changelog, see:

• https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.24.0
• https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.24.1
• https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.24.2

What’s Changed

• bump default to 0.24.1 and auto-detect lychee bin in subfolder by @​kaitlyndotmoe in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/330
• fixes #​322 check for null by @​bgermann in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/336
• Install into $RUNNER_TEMP instead of $HOME by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/338
• Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/339
• Bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/340

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2.8.0...v2.9.0

v2.8.0

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What's Changed

• Update lycheeVersion to v0.23.0 by @​github-actions[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3244
• Update args for lychee-action to use root-dir by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/314
• Update test to use --root-dir instead of the deprecated --base by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/315
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @​dependabot[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3166
• Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3199
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 7 to 8 by @​dependabot[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3188
• Add message with Summary report URL by @​atteggiani in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/326

New Contributors

• @​atteggiani made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/326

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2.7.0...v2.8.0

v2.7.0

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Breaking changes

If you're using --base, you must now provide either a URL (with scheme) or an absolute local path. See lychee --help for more information. If you want to resolve root-relative links in local files, also see --root-dir.

What's Changed

• Bump peter-evans/create-issue-from-file from 5 to 6 by @​dependabot[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3077
• Upgrade checkout action from v4 to v5 by @​jacobdalamb in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/310
• Update lycheeVersion to v0.21.0 by @​github-actions[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3122
  See https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.21.0 for the lychee changelog.

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.7.0

v2.6.1

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What's Changed

• Update lycheeVersion to v0.20.1 by @​github-actions[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3066, which contains a hotfix forhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/issues/3055.

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

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What's Changed

• Update lychee version to v0.20.0 by @​github-actions[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3044
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3033

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.6.0

v2.5.0

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Summary

Most notably with this release the deprecated --exclude-mail flag was removed and the behavior of the --accept flag was updated. Previously, status codes such as 200 OK were always accepted. Now they are only accepted by default. This means providing the argument --accept 201 now rejects status code 200 OK.

What's Changed

• Update lycheeVersion to v0.19.1 by @​github-actions[bot] inhttps://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/3000
• See the lychee changes here: https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.19.1, https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/releases/tag/lychee-v0.19.0

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.5.0

v2.4.1

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What's Changed

• Added Update Default Lychee version workflow by @​Arteiii in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/284
• Use temporary directory for lychee installation by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/287
• Fix lychee version check by @​mondeja in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/288

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.4.1

v2.4.0

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What's Changed

• lychee now has a new task output, which allows to track which links got fixed more easily.
  It looks like this:

  [test.html]:

  • [404] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo | Network error: Not Found
  • [404] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bar | Network error: Not Found
  • [ERROR] https://example.com/baz | Network error: error sending request for url (https://example.com/baz) Maybe a certificate error?

  Each broken link has a checkbox that can be ticked off once fixed. Credit goes to @​Arteiii for the idea and the implementation.
  See #​274 for more information.

• Update To latest lychee Release by @​Arteiii in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/279

• Add workingDirectory argument by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/283

New Contributors

• @​Arteiii made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/279

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.4.0

v2.3.0

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What's Changed

• feat: support ARM workers by @​LesnyRumcajs in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/273

New Contributors

• @​LesnyRumcajs made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/273

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.3.0

v2.2.0

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What's Changed

• Fix if expressions in GitHub actions by @​YDX-2147483647 in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/265
• Update README.md to include continue-on-error: true in action by @​psobolewskiPhD in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/267
• Bump default version to latest (0.18.0) by @​trask in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/269

New Contributors

• @​psobolewskiPhD made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/267
• @​trask made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/269

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.2.0

v2.1.0

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What's Changed

• Add missing argument failIfEmpty by @​LitoMore in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/261
• Fix bugs about the exit code by @​YDX-2147483647 in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/262
• Bump lychee version to 0.17.0 by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/263

New Contributors

• @​LitoMore made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/261
• @​YDX-2147483647 made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/262

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.1.0

v2.0.2

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What's Changed

• Fix a typos by @​szepeviktor in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/257
• Document and use correct permissions in the GitHub workflows by @​dscho in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/258
• Add security policy by @​mondeja in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/259

New Contributors

• @​szepeviktor made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/257
• @​mondeja made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/259

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.0.2

v2.0.1

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What's Changed

• Don't remove the lychee config file by @​dmathieu in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/255
• Bump lycheeverse/lychee-action from 1 to 2 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/252
• Fix variable name in docs by @​kdeldycke in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/253

New Contributors

• @​dmathieu made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/255

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2...v2.0.1

v2.0.0

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Breaking Changes

Note: This release improves the action's robustness by changing default behaviors. Changes are only required if you want to opt out of the new failure conditions. Most users won't need to modify their existing configurations.

Fail pipeline on error by default

We've changed the default behavior: pipelines will now fail on broken links automatically. This addresses user feedback that not failing on broken links was unexpected (see issue #​71).

What you need to do:

• Update to version 2 of this action to apply this change.
• Users of the lychee-action@master branch don't need to make any changes, as fail: true has been the default there for a while.
• If you prefer the old behavior, explicitly set fail to false when updating:

- name: Link Checker
  id: lychee
  uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
  with:
    fail: false  # Don't fail action on broken links

Fail pipeline if no links were found

Similar to the above change, we now fail the pipeline if no links are found during a run. This helps warn users about potential configuration issues.

What you need to do:

• If you expect links to be found in your pipeline run, you don't need to do anything.
• If you expect no links in your pipeline run, you can opt out like this:

- name: Link Checker
  id: lychee
  uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
  with:
    failIfEmpty: false  # Don't fail action if no links were found

Exit code handling

In this version, we changed the environment variable for the lychee exit code from GITHUB_ENV to GITHUB_OUTPUT.
Please update your scripts. For more details, see https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/245.

For a more detailed description of the technical aspects behind these changes, please see the full changelog below.

What's Changed

• feat: change to use the full version tag with v-* prefix by @​kemingy in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/204
• Add failIfEmpty argument (fixes #​84) by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/86
• Fail pipeline on error by default (fixes #​71) by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/85
• Exit in case output is set in args and action input by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/227
• v1 will automatically use latest version by @​jacobdalamb in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/228
• Remove unneeded text by @​jacobdalamb in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/229
• Clarify README.md defaults by @​paddyroddy in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/230
• Adjust for new asset naming scheme by @​dscho in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/234
• Test various lychee versions by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/235
• Better cleanup of old lychee assets by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/237
• Bump peter-evans/create-issue-from-file from v4 to v5 by @​AndreiCherniaev in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/241
• Remove dots from table by @​AndreiCherniaev in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/242
• README: update actions/cache to v4 by @​sebastiaanspeck in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/243
• Set exit_code correctly as output by @​sebastiaanspeck in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/245
• action: fix failing CI by @​sebastiaanspeck in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/246
• Split up steps in action by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/248
• Bump version to 0.16.x, respect new tag names by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/249
• Test latest lychee version tag by @​mre in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/236

New Contributors

• @​kemingy made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/204
• @​paddyroddy made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/230
• @​dscho made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/234
• @​AndreiCherniaev made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/241
• @​sebastiaanspeck made their first contribution in https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action/pull/243

Full Changelog: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v1...v1.11.0

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