Action is failing to create PRs after Jan 16, 2026

[aaronriekenberg]

I am using update-gradle-wrapper-action in a daily cron job in 2 github projects

• aaronriekenberg/million-hello-challenge
• target/native_memory_allocator

For past several months the action has been able to create PRs in both projects, some examples:

• Update Gradle Wrapper from 9.1.0 to 9.2.0 target/native_memory_allocator#56
• Update Gradle Wrapper from 9.2.0 to 9.2.1 aaronriekenberg/million-hello-challenge#128

About last week when updating to Gradle 9.3.0 the action is failing to create PRs for both projects.

Links to few failures and screenshot:

• https://github.com/target/native_memory_allocator/actions/runs/21192624137
• https://github.com/aaronriekenberg/million-hello-challenge/actions/runs/21193184040

I have given actions permission to create PRs:

This action is really useful to find new gradle versions automatically. Wondering if something has changed in github create PR process?

Thanks! 😄

[JKatzwinkel]

This seems to be due to v6 of the checkout action introducing a new default behaviour with actions/checkout#2286 . See #988 for a workaround.

[aaronriekenberg]

This worked thanks @JKatzwinkel !