This week on Ship It Weekly: GitHub Actions workflow execution protections are now generally available, giving organizations more control over who and what can trigger individual workflows. Cisco is patching critical vulnerabilities in Secure Email Gateway, including an actively exploited issue that can lead to remote command execution as root. Helm 3 has reached its final minor release and is heading toward end-of-life in February 2027. And GitHub’s ubuntu-latest Actions runner is preparing to move from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04.

The bigger theme this week is infrastructure that changes even when your code does not. GitHub is making CI execution permissions more explicit, Helm teams now have a defined migration deadline, and the ubuntu-latest transition is a good example of how a completely unchanged workflow can suddenly be r ...