add blog post with overview of changes since Nov'24, to encourage voting for HPCWire Readers' Choice Award 2026

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ on:
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     permissions:
       # Need to be able to write to the deploy branch
       contents: write
     steps:
     - name: checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0  # need to fetch all history to ensure correct Git revision dates in docs
 
     - name: set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
+      uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
       with:
         python-version: '3.10'
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     # Make sure to also deploy auto-generated API docs for test suite
     # For that, we need the repo to be available under eessi/test-suite
     - name: checkout test suite
-      uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
         repository: eessi/test-suite
         # Path is needed, otherwise this will overwrite the checkout action that cloned the docs repo

.github/workflows/script_module_list.yml

@@ -15,25 +15,25 @@ permissions: read-all
 jobs:
 
   flake8-lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     name: Lint
     steps:
       - name: Check out source repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@93ea575cb5d8a053eaa0ac8fa3b40d7e05a33cc8 # v3.1.0
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       - name: Set up Python environment
-        uses: actions/setup-python@13ae5bb136fac2878aff31522b9efb785519f984 # v4.3.0
+        uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
         with:
-          python-version: "3.7"
+          python-version: '3.10'
       - name: Run flake8
         uses: py-actions/flake8@84ec6726560b6d5bd68f2a5bed83d62b52bb50ba # v2.3.0
         with:
           max-line-length: "120"
           path: "scripts/available_software"
 
   pytest-tests:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@93ea575cb5d8a053eaa0ac8fa3b40d7e05a33cc8 # v3.1.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m venv venv

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ on: [push, pull_request]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
     - name: checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0  # need to fetch all history to ensure correct Git revision dates in docs
 
     - name: set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5.6.0
+      uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
       with:
         python-version: '3.10'
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
     # Make sure to also test deployment of auto-generated API docs for test suite
     # For that, we need the repo to be available under eessi/test-suite
     - name: checkout test suite
-      uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
         repository: eessi/test-suite
         # Path is needed, otherwise this will overwrite the checkout action that cloned the docs repo

.github/workflows/test_overview_available_software.yml

@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ on:
 jobs:
   check_targets:
     name: check targets in overview.md and json_data.json
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
 
       - name: set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
+        uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
           architecture: x64

.github/workflows/update_available_software.yml

@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ on:
 jobs:
   update_available_software:
     if: github.repository_owner == 'EESSI'   # Prevent running on forks
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29 # v4.1.6
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
 
       - name: set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@82c7e631bb3cdc910f68e0081d67478d79c6982d # v5.1.0
+        uses: actions/setup-python@5fda3b95a4ea91299a34e894583c3862153e4b97 # v7.0.0
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
           architecture: x64