[TODAY] Github Actions - Genera an error

[okarook]

Describe the bug
My Github action has an error
This error occurred today, yesterday everything was fine

Workflow
This is my action

name: Semantic Release
on:
  push:
    branches: [ production ]

jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 16.17.0

      - name: Install Dependencies
        run: yarn install

      - name: Semantic Release
        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v2
        id: semantic  
        with:
          branch: production
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.XXXX }}
  

Expected behavior
This action should work in my GitHub

Additional context
I have seen that the semantic-release package a few minutes ago updated to a new version.

[MikeMcC399]

@okarook

I'm also seeing the error using cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v2. There was a release of semantic-release v20.0.0 on Jan 6, 2023. According to the release notes it contains breaking changes related to ESM-only and minimum Node.js 18.

If possible it is probably best just to update to using cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v3 which also gets rid of some deprecation warnings.

Upgrade to cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v3

Upgrading to v3 of cycjimmy/semantic-release-action without specifying semantic_version resolves this issue. It seems that this is because a default version is specified in the action:

semantic-release-action/package.json

Line 28 in 56bb7f9

"semantic-release": "^19.0.5"

semantic_version

Adding semantic_version works around the issue when using the previous v2 version cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v2:

    with:
      semantic_version: 19

This is according to the README section for the parameter semantic_version where it says:

"It is recommended to manually specify a version of semantic-release to prevent errors caused during the official semantic-release upgrade"

After making the change the log files then show:

[semantic-release] › ℹ  Running semantic-release version 19.0.5

instead of:

Error: Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: Must use import to load ES Module: /home/runner/work/_actions/cycjimmy/semantic-release-action/v2/node_modules/semantic-release/index.js

[cycjimmy]

This is caused by BREAKING CHANGES in semantic-release v20. You can temporarily lock the version to v19 to solve this problem.

with:
  semantic_version: 19

https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/releases/tag/v20.0.0

[MikeMcC399]

@cycjimmy

Are you planning any new release of cycjimmy/semantic-release-action to support v20 of semantic-release/semantic-release?

[cycjimmy]

Yes. But this action uses a Javascript container. Currently, the only Javascript containers available on Github are node12 and node16, and semantic-release v20 requires node18 or higher. So we may have to wait a little longer.

@cycjimmy

Are you planning any new release of cycjimmy/semantic-release-action to support v20 of semantic-release/semantic-release?

[MikeMcC399]

@cycjimmy

Yes. But this action uses a Javascript container. Currently, the only Javascript containers available on Github are node12 and node16, and semantic-release v20 requires node18 or higher.

Thank you for pointing out this compatibility issue!

Issue actions/runner#2255 requesting support for node18 was closed with the hint that the next supported version may be node20.

According to https://github.com/nodejs/release#release-schedule Node.js 20 is planned for release on 2023-04-18

So we may have to wait a little longer.

You are right! Probably this means quite a few months:
Release of Node.js 20 > Support on GitHub

[okarook]

Thanks, I don't have the version on the GitHub Action ✌️

[MikeMcC399]

@okarook

Please let us know if the suggested fixes (add

    with:
      semantic_version: 19

or update to @V3, or add the version together with updating to @V3) fixed the issue for you.

[buehler]

Would it be an option to move to a docker based github action? Then you can adjust your node version quite easily. Or are there any implications that I don't see?

[MikeMcC399]

@okarook

If you are now back up and running, then I suggest to close this issue.

README: Semantic version has been updated to give the correct advice based on the discussions here in this issue.

Thanks for reporting this issue. It was very useful to me!

[MikeMcC399]

@cycjimmy

In case you hadn't seen it
actions/runner#2704
announced the plan to support node20 for GitHub JavaScript Actions.

No date yet.