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Velocity6.3

Depot is closing the last gaps between its CI and the GitHub Actions it wants to replace

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◆Current state
Depot CI keeps absorbing the things a team would otherwise stay on GitHub-hosted runners for: Arm64 sandboxes up to 64 CPUs, native stacked pull request handling, macOS 26 on M4 hardware, rebuilt Windows Server images carrying Visual Studio 2026, and a us-east-1 Ubuntu package mirror. Behavior details are being tuned too — pull request runs no longer cancel on a new commit unless a concurrency group says so. The newest release moves Datadog CI Visibility out of private beta, exporting every run as a pipeline with jobs, steps, and retries intact.
◆Where it's heading
The strategy is substitution rather than differentiation: match the incumbent's compatibility surface, beat it on hardware and cache, then let existing tooling see Depot as just another pipeline. Datadog export is the clearest expression of that — it makes Depot legible to the monitoring a team already runs instead of asking them to adopt a new dashboard. The CLI work on project get, update, and cache retention points the same way, toward scripts and agents managing Depot without the UI.
◆Prediction
Expect the us-east-1 package mirror to expand to other regions, and the observability work to extend past Datadog to other OpenTelemetry-compatible destinations.

◆Recent moves

  1. 21d ago

    Datadog CI Visibility is now generally available

    Datadog CI Visibility leaves private beta for all organizations, sending each Depot CI run to Datadog as a pipeline with jobs, steps, and partial retries preserved. It lets teams watch Depot pipelines in the tool they already use rather than switching context to judge pipeline health.

  2. 23d ago

    Added an Ubuntu package mirror for us-east-1 runners

    us-east-1 Ubuntu runners now pull packages from a Depot-operated mirror synced every six hours, covering AMD64 and ARM64. Infrastructure work aimed at removing apt fetches as a source of build latency and flakiness, though only in one region so far.

  3. 23d ago

    Depot CI supports Arm64 sandboxes

    Arm64 sandboxes arrive via an -arm label in runs-on, spanning 2 CPU/8 GB through 64 CPU/256 GB. It closes an architecture gap teams building multi-arch images would otherwise leave Depot CI for.

  4. 25d ago

    Updated Windows Server runner images

    Windows Server 2022 and 2025 images are rebuilt from fresh AMIs, with 2025 moving to Visual Studio 2026, MSBuild 18, and .NET 10. Toolchain currency for .NET teams, with the caveat that a rebuild shifts package versions underneath existing jobs.

  5. 28d ago

    PR runs now continue after a new commit instead of cancelling

    Pull request runs continue when a new commit lands instead of being auto-cancelled, with cancel-in-progress left as an opt-in concurrency setting. A default flipped toward keeping results rather than saving compute.

  6. 1mo ago

    macOS 26 is now the default macOS version for GitHub Actions runners

    depot-macos-latest now resolves to macOS 26 on M4 hardware with 8 CPUs and 24 GB, with explicit labels still available for macOS 15 and 14. Keeps Apple toolchain access current for teams whose release schedule follows Xcode.