[Microsoft Open Source Security Bot (OssSecurityBot)]

Summary

This PR pins GitHub Actions to full-length commit SHAs for improved security and reproducibility and adds a 7 day cooldown to Dependabot configuration for GitHub Actions.

Why?

Pinning actions to commit SHAs prevents supply-chain attacks where a tag could be moved to point to malicious code. This is a recommended security best practice per the GitHub Actions security hardening guide.

This change mitigates the risk of tag retargeting to malicious code as seen in incidents like the tj-actions/changed-files action compromise or codfish/semantic-release-action compromise and improves the integrity and reproducibility of the CI/CD pipeline.

What changed?

Action pinning: Third-party action references in .github/workflows/ that used mutable tag-based references (e.g., actions/checkout@v4) have been updated to full-length commit SHAs with a version comment (e.g., actions/checkout@<sha> # v4) using the pinact tool. References that were already pinned to a SHA, or that used immutable release tags, were left unchanged.

Dependabot configuration: .github/dependabot.yml has been updated to ensure a github-actions package-ecosystem section is present with a cooldown configuration (default-days: 7). This groups Dependabot PRs for GitHub Actions and enforces a minimum 7-day cooldown between updates. If the file did not exist, it was created. If a github-actions section already existed, only the cooldown block was added or its default-days value was increased to 7 if it was lower. The 7-day cooldown provides a window for the community to detect and report compromised releases before they are automatically proposed as updates, reducing exposure to supply-chain attacks via newly published malicious versions.

Is this safe to merge?

Yes. The pinned SHAs correspond to the same commits that the existing tags pointed to. No behavioral changes are introduced. You can verify the pinned SHA value using the GitHub REST API (e.g., the commit hash for actions/checkout@v7 can be found in the sha property in the JSON response for GET https://github.com/@api/repos/actions/checkout/commits/v7).

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR hardens the repository’s CI/CD configuration by replacing mutable GitHub Action version tags with full commit SHA pins, improving supply-chain security and reproducibility. It also introduces a Dependabot configuration for GitHub Actions updates with grouping and a 7-day cooldown window.

Changes:

• Pinned third-party (and GitHub-provided) Actions in multiple workflows from @v* tags to full 40-character commit SHAs with version comments.
• Added .github/dependabot.yml to enable grouped GitHub Actions updates on a weekly schedule with a 7-day cooldown.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 12 out of 13 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

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File	Description
.github/workflows/upload-petri-results.yml	Pins jlumbroso/free-disk-space and azure/login to full commit SHAs.
.github/workflows/unsafe-label.yml	Pins actions/github-script to a full commit SHA.
.github/workflows/refresh-mirror.yml	Pins Azure login, Key Vault secrets, and checkout actions to full commit SHAs.
.github/workflows/openvmm-pr-release.yaml	Replaces many actions/* tag references with full commit SHA pins across release workflow steps.
.github/workflows/openvmm-docs-pr.yaml	Pins checkout/cache/artifact actions to full commit SHAs in docs PR workflow.
.github/workflows/openvmm-docs-ci.yaml	Pins checkout/cache/artifact/pages/node actions to full commit SHAs in docs CI workflow.
.github/workflows/openvmm-ci.yaml	Pins checkout/cache/artifact actions to full commit SHAs in main CI workflow.
.github/workflows/labeler.yml	Pins actions/labeler to a full commit SHA.
.github/workflows/dep-review.yml	Pins checkout + actions/github-script to full commit SHAs for dependency review workflow.
.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml	Pins checkout action to a full commit SHA for agent setup workflow.
.github/workflows/code-review-metrics.yml	Pins checkout and upload-artifact actions to full commit SHAs.
.github/dependabot.yml	Adds Dependabot config for GitHub Actions with grouping, weekly schedule, and 7-day cooldown.

[Steven Malis (smalis-msft)]

This probably needs to update the flowey code, not just the yaml. I'll do that in a sec.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 22 out of 22 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

[github-actions]

5 Petri tests failed (0 unstable)