A quieter idle watch
executor --watchnow asks once instead of three times while idle. Finding out whether any work is waiting used to cost three separate requests every 15 seconds — even though an executor spends most of its time simply idling. It now asks a single combined question and gets all three answers together.- Nothing about running jobs changed. When work is actually waiting, the per-kind checks and the whole claim → run → upload path proceed exactly as before. This release only changes how often the executor checks in.
- It falls back on its own. If the combined check is unavailable, or the answer looks off in any way, the executor quietly runs the old checks instead, so no job is missed.
Note
The combined check reads capability data your executor reports when it starts. To keep that from going stale on a long-running watch, a full per-kind check still runs periodically regardless of what the combined check says.
Standalone CLI for signed and notarized macOS arm64/Intel plus verified Ubuntu 22.04+ Linux x64. The checksum-verifying native installer and keyless Sigstore provenance bundle are included.
Full notes: https://social-archive.org/release-notes