Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Self-Hosted RunnersArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Prewarm eligibility no longer requires being the very first worker; any valid worker number of 1 or above qualifies, and the caller is told whether this is a later one.
Details
Applies to self-hosted runners only.
New helpers parse a checkpoint hint from the session config, validating repo names and 40 to 64 character hex commit SHAs, capping the list at 64 entries and logging what was dropped.
Evidence
worker epoch unknown (
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
