ci: bump github/codeql-action/init from 4.37.3 to 4.37.8

[dependabot]

Bumps github/codeql-action/init from 4.37.3 to 4.37.8.

Release notes

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v4.37.8

No user facing changes.

v4.37.7

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.3. #4085

v4.37.6

• Changed the default filepath for the new remote file address format that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 / 3.37.0 to .github/codeql-config.yml to align it with the suggested path that is used elsewhere. #4070

v4.37.5

• Fixed a bug where a network error while streaming the download of the CodeQL bundle could terminate the init Action instead of falling back to downloading the bundle before extracting it. #4061

v4.37.4

• This version of the CodeQL Action adds support for the tools input for the codeql-action/init step to be specified using a github-codeql-tools repository property. This feature will gradually be rolled out following the release of this version. Once rolled out, this allows for the CodeQL CLI version that is used in GitHub-managed workflows, such as Default Setup, to be set to a custom value. For example, customers who run into issues with rate limits when a new CodeQL CLI version is released can set the value to toolcache to always use the CodeQL CLI version that is available in the runner toolcache. For Advanced Setup workflows, the value provided for tools in the workflow definition always takes precedence unless the value of the repository property starts with !. #4037
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.2. #4051

Changelog

Sourced from github/codeql-action/init's changelog.

CodeQL Action Changelog

See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.

[UNRELEASED]

No user facing changes.

4.37.8 - 21 Aug 2026

No user facing changes.

4.37.7 - 13 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.3. #4085

4.37.6 - 04 Aug 2026

• Changed the default filepath for the new remote file address format that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 / 3.37.0 to .github/codeql-config.yml to align it with the suggested path that is used elsewhere. #4070

4.37.5 - 03 Aug 2026

• Fixed a bug where a network error while streaming the download of the CodeQL bundle could terminate the init Action instead of falling back to downloading the bundle before extracting it. #4061

4.37.4 - 29 Jul 2026

• This version of the CodeQL Action adds support for the tools input for the codeql-action/init step to be specified using a github-codeql-tools repository property. This feature will gradually be rolled out following the release of this version. Once rolled out, this allows for the CodeQL CLI version that is used in GitHub-managed workflows, such as Default Setup, to be set to a custom value. For example, customers who run into issues with rate limits when a new CodeQL CLI version is released can set the value to toolcache to always use the CodeQL CLI version that is available in the runner toolcache. For Advanced Setup workflows, the value provided for tools in the workflow definition always takes precedence unless the value of the repository property starts with !. #4037
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.2. #4051

4.37.3 - 22 Jul 2026

No user facing changes.

4.37.2 - 21 Jul 2026

• The new address format for the config-file input that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 is now enabled by default. In addition to the format described there, the remote= prefix can now be used to explicitly indicate that the input refers to a remote file. All previous input formats continue to be accepted as well. #4023
• The CodeQL Action can now make use of configured private registries in Default Setup to retrieve CodeQL configuration files from remote repositories that require authentication. This will allow customers to store their CodeQL configuration in a single repository that can then be referenced by Default Setup workflows in other repositories. We expect to roll this and other, related changes out to everyone in July. #4007

4.37.1 - 16 Jul 2026

• Upcoming breaking change: Add a deprecation warning for customers using CodeQL version 2.20.6 and earlier. These versions of CodeQL were discontinued on 1 July 2026 alongside GitHub Enterprise Server 3.16, and will be unsupported by the next minor release of the CodeQL Action. #3956
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.1. #4019

4.37.0 - 08 Jul 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.0. #3995
• In addition to the existing input format, the config-file input for the codeql-action/init step will soon support a new [owner/]repo[@ref][:path] format. All components except the repository name are optional. If omitted, owner defaults to the same owner as the repository the analysis is running for, ref to main, and path to .github/codeql-action.yaml. Support for this format ships in this version of the CodeQL Action, but will only be enabled over the coming weeks. #3973

4.36.3 - 01 Jul 2026

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Commits

• db488dd Merge pull request #4102 from github/update-v4.37.8-9ee088e13
• 1845f5b Update changelog for v4.37.8
• 9ee088e Merge pull request #4080 from github/henrymercer/studious-giggle
• 1aef003 Address review feedback on overlay disk flags
• 508b83b Merge main into overlay minimum disk feature branch
• d97b342 Merge pull request #4098 from github/mbg/permission-error-as-configuration-error
• 47fa622 Make EACCES a ConfigurationError
• 45693cc Refactor ENOSPC check into isDiskConfigurationError function
• c2fd8f5 Merge pull request #4081 from github/mario-campos/version-cache-to-disk
• c56f48e Log unexpected conditions during caching CLI output
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[wbreza]

The SHA pin is authentic and correctly scoped, but bumping init alone leaves autobuild and analyze on 4.37.3 and CodeQL fails.

What stood out

• Verified, immutable action pin — db488dde is exactly the commit the upstream v4.37.8 annotated tag dereferences to, on the official releases/v4 branch, so the SHA-pinning posture holds.
• Partial upgrade breaks the job — init moves to 4.37.8 while autobuild and analyze stay on 4.37.3; the Analyze check on this PR already fails at autobuild before any SARIF is produced.
• Split across three Dependabot PRs — #621 and #622 carry the autobuild and analyze halves, so merge order decides whether main lands in a mixed-version state.

Top issues

• [F-001] CodeQL job fails: init on 4.37.8, autobuild and analyze still on 4.37.3 — .github/workflows/codeql.yml:40
• [F-002] Merging this PR alone leaves the workflow mixed-version — .github/workflows/codeql.yml:40

Cross-cutting

• [F-003] Pin comment # v4 is less precise than the repo convention (process) — other pinned actions record the exact release, e.g. # v7.0.0 on line 34.

[wbreza]

[F-001] This bump moves init to db488ddef3bf6cb639b32c2e9a7c0a7ea8271d28 (v4.37.8), but autobuild (line 45) and analyze (line 48) remain pinned to e4fba868fa4b1b91e1fdab776edc8cfbe6e9fb81 (v4.37.3). CodeQL requires every step in the job to run the same version, and the mismatch is a hard failure, not a warning.

The Analyze check on this PR fails at the Autobuild step:

We were unable to automatically build your code. Please replace the call to the autobuild action
with your custom build steps. Loaded a configuration file for version '4.37.8', but running version '4.37.3'

Analysis aborts before any SARIF is uploaded, so the branch gets no CodeQL results at all. The last 10 CodeQL runs on main all succeeded with the three steps aligned at 4.37.3, which confirms the skew is introduced here rather than pre-existing.

Fix: repoint all three CodeQL steps to db488ddef3bf6cb639b32c2e9a7c0a7ea8271d28 in a single change.

      - name: Autobuild
        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@db488ddef3bf6cb639b32c2e9a7c0a7ea8271d28 # v4.37.8

      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@db488ddef3bf6cb639b32c2e9a7c0a7ea8271d28 # v4.37.8

[wbreza]

[F-002] Dependabot split this upgrade across three PRs, one per action path:

• ci: bump github/codeql-action/init from 4.37.3 to 4.37.8 #620 (this PR) — codeql-action/init
• ci: bump github/codeql-action/autobuild from 4.37.3 to 4.37.8 #621 — codeql-action/autobuild
• ci: bump github/codeql-action/analyze from 4.37.3 to 4.37.8 #622 — codeql-action/analyze

Because the three steps must share a version, merging any subset leaves main in a mixed-version state and breaks CodeQL there the same way it is broken on this branch. Merging this one first is the worst case: main starts failing immediately and stays failing until #622 lands.

Fix: merge all three in one batch, or fold the autobuild and analyze pins into this PR and close #621 and #622 as superseded.

[wbreza]

[F-003] The trailing comment records # v4 — a floating major — rather than the exact release being pinned. The rest of the repository records the precise version alongside the SHA, including the step directly above this one:

• .github/workflows/codeql.yml:34 — actions/setup-go@b7ad1da... # v7.0.0
• .github/workflows/ci.yml:43 — # v7.0.1
• .github/workflows/ci.yml:53 — # v6.1.0
• .github/workflows/release.yml:499 — # v4.1.2

The imprecise comment predates this PR on the CodeQL steps, so this is carried forward rather than introduced, but it hides which release was actually audited and makes the skew in F-001 invisible to a reader scanning the file. Recording # v4.37.8 on all three CodeQL steps would make the mismatch obvious at a glance.

[dependabot]

Superseded by #624.