[Easton97-Jens]

what

Consolidate the QA workflows in ci_new.yml, remove duplicate Windows builds, and retain the existing Ubuntu 22.04 coverage, including 32-bit builds, as a separate legacy job.

Update the Linux and macOS build environments, give CI jobs distinct names, and update the checkout action.

why

Keep the CI in one workflow while preserving existing platform coverage and testing newer build environments. The legacy Linux job can be removed independently when it is no longer needed.

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Checked workflow syntax, matrix coverage, and job names locally. See the PR checks for GitHub Actions results.

references

Related to #3653. The Windows build-system updates are handled in #3715.

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  • Automated Linux build and test coverage now includes Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04, with additional compiler and configuration combinations. Some configurations are excluded on specific platforms.
  • macOS build coverage now includes Xcode 27.
  • Automated Windows build and test runs have been removed from the continuous integration workflow. These changes affect build and test workflows; no end-user product behavior is described.

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The pull request removes .github/workflows/ci.yml and updates .github/workflows/ci_new.yml. The replacement workflow adds Ubuntu 22.04 coverage, expands Linux and macOS runner matrices, adjusts PCRE handling, and updates checkout actions to version 7.

Changes: CI workflow updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ubuntu 22.04 build and test job .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/ci_new.yml	The prior workflow is removed. The replacement adds Ubuntu 22.04 x64 and x32 builds across compiler and configuration variants, with dependency selection, installation, build, and test steps.
Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 matrix .github/workflows/ci_new.yml	The Linux job adds Ubuntu 26.04 coverage. The PCRE configuration is excluded there, and libpcre3-dev is installed only on other Ubuntu versions.
macOS matrix and checkout updates .github/workflows/ci_new.yml	The macOS matrix adds xcode-27. Updated checkout actions in Linux, macOS, Windows, and cppcheck jobs use actions/checkout@v7.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity#3724: Updates action references in the CI workflows affected by this consolidation.
• owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity#3718: Adds runner selection to the Linux, macOS, and Windows jobs in the replacement workflow.
• owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity#3715: Changes the Windows job retained in the replacement workflow.

Suggested reviewers: 7acini, fzipi, airween

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 3d92c

No new merge-blocking risk was identified. Pre-existing legacy CI issues remain.

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.github/workflows/ci_new.yml-10-10: 1

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Limit this job’s token permissions to repository read access.

The new job does not declare permissions, so its token scopes depend on the repository’s default setting. Checkout needs contents: read; the build and test steps do not need write access. Set permissions: contents: read on build-linux-old. (docs.github.com) Based on learnings, build-only jobs should declare minimal token permissions.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/ci_new.yml:
- Around line 88-91: Update the x64 `Setup Dependencies` step to install both
`libpcre3-dev` and `libxml2-dev` alongside `libfuzzy-dev`, using the appropriate
package architecture for the x64 matrix configuration.
- Around line 93-96: Update the actions/checkout@v6 step in the build job to set
persist-credentials to false, while preserving its existing submodules and
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- Line 85: Add the non-interactive confirmation flag to the apt-get install
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[airween]

Hi @Easton97-Jens,

thanks for splitting this out of #3653. It follows the split @fzipi suggested there: the duplicate-job removal, plus the new runners and checkout@v7.

I compared the workflows with v3/master:

• build-linux-old is the current build-linux job from ci.yml unchanged, apart from checkout@v7. It still runs the same 32 jobs, so the x32 coverage is preserved.
• The removed Windows job in ci.yml was a true duplicate of build-windows in ci_new.yml: same runner, same 6 configurations, same steps.
• On Ubuntu 26.04, skipping --with-pcre and the libpcre3-dev install is right, since PCRE1 is no longer in the archive there.

One change is needed before we merge:

The README badge. README.md line 8 refers to the workflow by name:

![Quality Assurance](https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/workflows/Quality%20Assurance/badge.svg)

Once ci.yml is removed, no workflow has that name anymore. The simplest fix is to rename the workflow in ci_new.yml, since the "new" suffix no longer means anything after the consolidation:

name: Quality Assurance

Alternatively, point the badge at ci_new.yml.

About the open review threads:

• apt-get install g++-multilib without -y (line 85): this was already the case in ci.yml. It works today only because the package is preinstalled on the 22.04 image. Since the line is moving anyway, could you add -y while you're there?
• Missing libpcre3-dev / libxml2-dev on x64 (line 91): both packages are preinstalled on the Ubuntu 22.04 runner image. The job logs show --with-pcre building against PCRE 8.39 and the other configurations finding libxml2 2.9.13, so these configurations do test what they should. No change needed.
• persist-credentials: false (line 96): the workflow token in this repository is read-only by default, and this applies to every checkout step in the repo, not just this PR. If we want to change it, we'll do it for all workflows in a separate PR. No change needed here.

Please resolve the threads once you've addressed them, since resolved conversations are required for merging.

An optional suggestion: xcode-27 mainly adds a new compiler, while the 10 configure variants test optional library dependencies that macos-15 and macos-26 already cover. Two xcode-27 jobs would be enough, for example:

      matrix:
        os: [macos-15, macos-26]
        configure:
          # ... the current 10 configurations ...
        include:
          - os: xcode-27
            configure: { label: "with pcre2 (default)", opt: "" }
          - os: xcode-27
            configure: { label: "with parser generation", opt: "--enable-parser-generation" }

That's up to you, though. The full matrix is fine too.

Finally, now that #3653 is split into #3713, #3714 and #3715, could you close #3653 as superseded, once you've confirmed nothing from it is left out? That way nobody reviews or merges the old version by mistake.

Thanks!

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[airween]

Thanks @Easton97-Jens, this looks good now:

• the workflow is renamed to Quality Assurance, so the README badge works again;
• -y is added to the g++-multilib install;
• xcode-27 runs the two include jobs only;
• build-linux-old keeps the full 32-job 22.04 matrix, including x32.

All 102 jobs are green on 1bf48289, and the review threads are resolved. Thanks also for closing #3653.

A tiny nit for a future change, nothing to do here: line 94 of ci_new.yml contains only spaces.

Approving and merging.

Thank you again!