ActionLint version in MegaLinter doesnt support node24 runners

[dannystaple]

First, I want to say how useful MegaLinter is to me - it's a great tool for instrumenting repos with a bunch of Linters, and automatically suggesting flavours is really handy.

When working with custom shared actions or workflows, actionlinter is pretty handy, however the version in Megalinter is a little behind, with v1.7.8 or later supporting node24 runners and version 1.6.23 being used in MegaLinter (according to https://megalinter.io/v6/descriptors/action_actionlint/).

This leads to linter errors:

.github/workflows/my_workflow.yml:71:15: invalid runner name "node24" at runs.using in "My action" action defined at "actions/my_action". valid runners are "composite", "docker", and "node20". see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/metadata-syntax-for-github-actions#runs [action]
   |
71 |       - uses: ./actions/my_action
   |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(I've anonymised workflow/action names there)

Node20 support is deprecated (or being so) in github runners, so we don't really want to write new actions using it. I'm hoping there's a dependabot bump with the newer actionlint version somewhere.

[dannystaple]

As a workaround - in actionlint.yml I've added:

paths:
  actions/**/*:
    ignore:
      # Ignore the node24 runs until https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/discussions/6600 is resolved
      - 'invalid runner name "node24" at runs.using .+'

[nvuillam]

@dannystaple thanks for your nice work about MegaLinter :)
If you use beta version of MegaLinter , does it work ?

Note: a new release will come pretty soon :)