Clarification - All VCS status checks are impacted.
What is changing?
Status checks previously sent skipped job statuses as failures, now they will be sent as successful checks. This is to align with GitHub’s definition of skipped status.
This means that “skipped” will not prevent pull request merging, even if it is a required check.
List workflow jobs v2 API previously returned jobs with blocked statuses for jobs that never ran, now they will return as a skipped status.
Why are we doing this?
To improve the lifecycle of jobs and enable features such as finally jobs, all jobs will transition from blocked to one of the terminal states (success, failed, canceled, skipped, unauthorized).
When will it happen?
14th April 2025