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Jordan MontgomeryandCopilot Autofix powered by AI a0d795583d Add fleet-desktop-macos release workflow (#49903)
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**Related issue:** Resolves #45524

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No changes file as this is purely workflow/release changes

## Testing

Will be testing this on github as that's the only way and since this
requires testing with a tagged build I'll have to merge to main, tag,
then manually trigger

- [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Introduced an automated macOS Fleet Desktop release workflow for
version-tagged releases.
* Publishes the installer plus accompanying `meta.json` download
metadata, including SHA256 checksums.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Added stronger pre-release validation (tag/version match and immutable
release enforcement).
* Verifies the downloaded package and metadata against the expected
SHA256 to ensure the published artifacts are consistent.
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Github Actions

Fleet uses Github Actions for continuous integration (CI). This document describes best practices and at patterns for writing and maintaining Fleet's Github Actions workflows.

Bash

By default, Github Actions sets the shell to bash -e for linux and MacOS runners. To help write safer bash scripts in run jobs and avoid common issues, override the default by adding the following to the workflow file

defaults:
  run:
    # fail-fast using bash -eo pipefail. See https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#exit-codes-and-error-action-preference
    shell: bash

By specifying the default shell to bash, some extra flags are set. The option pipefail changes the behaviour when using the pipe | operator such that if any command in a pipeline fails, that commands return code will be used a the return code for the whole pipeline. Consider the following example in test-go.yaml

    - name: Run Go Tests
      run: |
        # omitted ...
          make test-go 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gotest.log

If the pipefail option was not set, this job would always succeed because tee would always return success. This is not the intended behavior. Instead, we want the job to fail if make test-go fails.

Concurrency

Github Action runners are limited. If a lot of workflows are queued, they will wait in pending until a runner becomes available. This has caused issue in the past where workflows take an excessively long time to start. To help with this issue, use the following in workflows

# This allows a subsequently queued workflow run to interrupt previous runs
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id}}
  cancel-in-progress: true

When a workflow is triggered via a pull request, it will cancel previous running workflows for that pull request. This is especially useful when changes are pushed to a pull request frequently. Manually triggered workflows, workflows that run on a schedule, and workflows triggered by pushes to main are unaffected.