Question

You maintain a public JavaScript action distributed on the Marketplace. Consumers reference it as `owner/action@v2`. You need to ship a backward-compatible bug fix as release v2.3.1 without requiring any consumer to edit their workflow files. Which release step ensures existing `@v2` users immediately receive the fix?

Accepted Answer

Create the immutable `v2.3.1` tag, then force-update the `v2` major-version tag to point at the same commit as `v2.3.1`.

Answer

Publish `v2.3.1` and open a pull request in each consumer repository to bump their `@v2` reference to `@v2.3.1`.

Answer

Delete the old `v2` tag and recreate it as a Git branch named `v2` tracking the default branch.

Answer

Create the `v2.3.1` tag and rely on the Marketplace to automatically redirect `@v2` requests to the newest v2 patch.