Auto updater wants to update to a pre-release version

Describe the bug The auto updater of the gha runner want to upgrade to a prerelease

To Reproduce

1. Start the runner on version 2.263.0
2. It will show the following message in the output:

Runner update in progress, do not shutdown runner.
Downloading 2.267.1 runner

Expected behavior I don’t want auto update at all, but being auto updated to a pre-release version is far from acceptable. At least I only want to be updated to a stable version.

Runner Version and Platform

2.263.0

OS of the machine running the runner? OSX/Windows/Linux/… Linux

[arash-bizcover]

Since Microsoft purchased Github …

[hross]

Apologies for any confusion caused by our runner release process and how it may impact rollout. For transparency’s sake, here is the current process that has been followed since actions GA (as far as I’m aware):

1. Runner updates are made to this repo and committed to master
2. Changes are tested internally at GitHub
3. Changes are rolled into a release as a prerelease
4. The prerelease runner is slowly rolled to different rings of customers via autoupdate, starting with internal customers and moving to larger and larger rings of customers
5. When the changes have rolled to every customer on the service and our telemetry indicates there are no issues, we mark the runner as “released”

Prerelease versions of the runner are considered stable, working and are rolled out to customers (obviously bugs can happen and we might have to roll back a runner version, which is why we would consider it prerelease until it has made it to all of our customers).

We could change the runner version to a “release” after it makes it through our internal customers and testing. That might help with the confusion on the terminology, although it would not change our testing process (just marking it earlier as released).