Bump every GitHub Action in the repository to its latest major
version, addressing the upcoming Node.js 20 deprecation. Several
of the old versions (checkout v4, cache v4, setup-node v4,
labeler v5) use the Node 20 runtime which GitHub is deprecating.
The new versions use Node 22.
- actions/checkout v4/v5 to v6
- actions/upload-artifact v4 to v7
- actions/download-artifact v4 to v8
- actions/cache, cache/restore, cache/save v4 to v5
- actions/setup-node v4 to v6
- actions/setup-python v5 to v6
- actions/github-script v7/v8 to v9
- actions/labeler v5 to v6
- peter-evans/find-comment v3 to v4
- dorny/paths-filter v3 to v4
- codecov/codecov-action v4 to v6
- docker/setup-buildx-action v3 to v4
- docker/build-push-action v6 to v7
- tj-actions/changed-files v46 to v47
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
Adds documentation for the SITL containers and .deb packages introduced in #26495. The containers are now live on Docker Hub: [`px4io/px4-sitl:latest`](https://hub.docker.com/r/px4io/px4-sitl) and [`px4io/px4-sitl-gazebo:latest`](https://hub.docker.com/r/px4io/px4-sitl-gazebo).
The main addition is a [Try PX4 Simulation](https://docs.px4.io/main/en/dev_setup/try_px4) page that leads with a single `docker run` command and gets someone flying in under a minute. It lives in Getting Started, right after Recommended Hardware/Setup, so it's one of the first things new users see.
The existing `.deb` package reference has been moved from `packaging/px4_sitl_deb.md` to `simulation/px4_sitl.md` and expanded to cover both containers and `.deb` packages on one page. Sections are ordered by how people use them: what's available, install, configure, connect QGC/MAVSDK, connect ROS 2.
Other changes:
- README now has a "Try PX4" section with the docker one-liner above "Build from Source"
- Landing page (`index.md`) reworked to lead with "Try PX4" before "For Developers"
- Toolchain page (`dev_env.md`) gets a tip redirecting simulation-only users to pre-built packages
- `getting_started.md` and `SUMMARY.md` updated with links to the new pages
- Simulation index tip updated to mention containers alongside `.deb` packages
The SIH container image is published as `px4io/px4-sitl` (renamed from `px4io/px4-sitl-sih`) so the default lightweight option carries the simplest name. The Gazebo image remains `px4io/px4-sitl-gazebo`.
Also upgrades all GitHub Actions in the SITL workflow to Node.js 24 compatible versions (`actions/checkout@v6`, `actions/cache@v5`, `actions/upload-artifact@v7`, `actions/download-artifact@v8`, `docker/setup-buildx-action@v4`, `docker/build-push-action@v7`) to fix the Node.js 20 deprecation warning ahead of the June 2026 deadline.
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Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hamish Willee <hamishwillee@gmail.com>
Add 'if: startsWith(runner.name, "runs-on--")' to the mirror swap step
in both workflows so fork users can see at a glance that the step only
fires on runs-on runners and is a no-op on standard GitHub-hosted
runners. The script keeps its internal RUNS_ON_AWS_REGION check as
defense in depth for callers outside these workflows.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
The mirror swap was duplicated across two workflows. Move it into
Tools/ci/use_aws_apt_mirror.sh and call the script from each workflow
after checkout but before any heavy apt work like Tools/setup/ubuntu.sh.
The script no-ops outside runs-on (RUNS_ON_AWS_REGION unset), so it is
safe to call from forks, self-hosted runners, or local container runs
without changing behavior there. The region is read from the runs-on
environment instead of being hardcoded, so future region changes only
need updating where the runner is provisioned.
The bootstrap 'apt install git' step keeps the default mirror because
git is one package and is unlikely to hit the dep11 desync issue that
broke ubuntu.sh.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
The SIH image is the canonical PX4 SITL container, so drop the redundant
-sih suffix and publish it as px4io/px4-sitl. Gazebo continues to publish
as px4io/px4-sitl-gazebo.
Decouples the published image name from the matrix.image identifier by
introducing a matrix.repo field, so renames like this don't require
touching the matrix logic.
This is a breaking change for anyone pulling px4io/px4-sitl-sih directly;
the old tags remain available but no new ones will be published under
that name.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
The default archive.ubuntu.com round-robin can serve out-of-sync index
files mid-sync, which makes apt-get update fail with 'File has unexpected
size' errors and breaks the deb build job for everyone until the upstream
mirror catches up.
Rewrite the container's apt sources to point at us-west-2.ec2.archive.
ubuntu.com instead. The EC2 archive mirrors are Canonical-operated,
region-local to the runs-on instances, and sync aggressively, eliminating
the round-robin lottery as a CI failure mode.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
Add :latest tag alongside version tags for per-arch images and
multi-arch manifests on both Docker Hub and GHCR.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
Add cmake/cpack infrastructure for building .deb packages from
px4_sitl_sih and px4_sitl_default targets. Includes install rules,
package scripts, Gazebo wrapper, and CI workflow.
Signed-off-by: Ramon Roche <mrpollo@gmail.com>
