Actions retention will cover checks, workflow runs, and statuses
UpdateVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026
Starting October 1, 2026, checks, workflow runs, and statuses will be governed by the same Actions retention setting that already controls how long artifacts and logs are kept, with a default of 90 days. Until now, checks, workflow runs, and statuses were retained for 400+ days regardless of your retention configuration.
Topics: Observability, Developer tools
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| Sep 3 | GitHub Actions: Early September 2026 updates Update | Update |
| Sep 3 | CodeQL 2.26.4 improves GitHub actions security detections Update | Update |
| Aug 20 | Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available GA | GA |
| Aug 20 | Separate GitHub Actions path for GitHub Code Quality GA | GA |
| Aug 19 | CodeQL 2.26.3 improves GitHub Actions queries and JavaScript modeling Update | Update |
| Sep 10 | Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode GA | GA |
| Sep 10 | Xcode 27 runner image now runs on macOS 27 Preview | Preview |
| Sep 17 | Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration GA | GA |
