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

[dependabot]

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

Release notes

Sourced from github/codeql-action/autobuild's releases.

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/autobuild'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 bump is authentic, but merging it alone breaks CodeQL scanning on main — all three codeql-action pins must move together.

What stood out

• Supply chain checks out — db488dde is the genuine v4.37.8 tag on github/codeql-action, 204 commits ahead of the previous pin with nothing behind, and no advisory affects the 4.37.3–4.37.8 range.
• Version lock-step is enforced at runtime — the action rejects a config written by a different version, so init, autobuild, and analyze cannot sit at different pins.
• The blast radius is the security scan itself — Autobuild aborts before analysis, so Go code goes unscanned rather than a check merely turning red.

Top issues

• [F-001] Merging this alone breaks CodeQL scanning on main — .github/workflows/codeql.yml:45
• [F-002] Ungrouped updates split the codeql-action pins across three PRs — .github/workflows/codeql.yml:48

Cross-cutting

• [F-002] Ungrouped updates split the codeql-action pins across three PRs (process) — Each release round yields three PRs that individually fail CI and cannot be merged in isolation.

Improvement opportunities

• [O-001] Version comment reads # v4 where this repo records full versions (Optional) — .github/workflows/codeql.yml:45

[wbreza]

[F-001] Merging this bump on its own leaves CodeQL scanning broken on the default branch.

The init step (line 40) and the analyze step (line 48) stay pinned to e4fba868... (v4.37.3) while this line moves autobuild to db488dde... (v4.37.8). The CodeQL Action validates that the config file written by init was produced by the same version as the step consuming it, and throws when it was not — src/config-utils.ts:

if (config.version !== getActionVersion()) {
  throw new ConfigurationError(
    `Loaded a configuration file for version '${config.version}', but running version '${getActionVersion()}'`,
  );
}

The Analyze check on this PR fails for exactly that reason:

##[error]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 '4.37.3', but running version '4.37.8'

The scheduled run on main, where all three steps sit at matching v4.37.3, passes — so the breakage originates here rather than being pre-existing or environmental. It is also not a token-permission artifact of a bot-authored PR: the failure occurs inside Autobuild, well before any SARIF upload.

Because Autobuild aborts before analysis runs, the consequence is not a merely red check — Go code stops being scanned on main until the pins are realigned.

Land all three github/codeql-action/* pins on db488ddef3bf6cb639b32c2e9a7c0a7ea8271d28 in a single commit instead of merging this path in isolation. Lines 40 and 48 are outside this diff hunk, so they cannot be carried as suggestions here.

[wbreza]

[F-002] Dependabot has no groups rule for github/codeql-action/*, so each release round produces three PRs that are mutually breaking.

This line still pins analyze to v4.37.3 because init, autobuild, and analyze are tracked as independent dependencies and each receives its own PR. Given that the three steps must execute at the same version, no single PR in the set can pass CI, and none is safe to merge alone. The pattern has already repeated: the init, autobuild, and analyze PRs from this round all fail with the same version-mismatch error, as did the preceding v4.37.7 round.

.github/dependabot.yml declares the github-actions ecosystem with no grouping. Adding a group preserves commit-level pinning while collapsing the three updates into one PR that is coherent on arrival:

- package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
  directory: "/"
  schedule:
    interval: "weekly"
  commit-message:
    prefix: "ci"
  groups:
    codeql-action:
      patterns:
        - "github/codeql-action/*"

Moving the three steps to the floating @v4 tag would also eliminate the mismatch, but it surrenders commit-level provenance on the security-scanning workflow itself and is the weaker trade.

[wbreza]

[O-001] 💡 Improvement Opportunity (optional — not required to merge)

Benefit: The trailing comment reads # v4 while the pin resolves to v4.37.8. The rest of this repo annotates pinned actions with the full version — actions/checkout ... # v7.0.1, actions/setup-go ... # v7.0.0 — 84 full-version comments against 4 major-only, all four of the latter being these codeql-action steps. Recording the full version makes a divergence between lines 40, 45, and 48 legible on inspection instead of concealing it behind three identical # v4 comments.
Effort: One comment per pinned codeql-action step.
Optionality: Optional
Sketch:

Suggested change

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

[dependabot]

Superseded by #626.