Update releaseVersion

2025-12-10 12:36:23 +00:00 · 2021-08-03 11:30:11 -04:00
144 changed files with 806 additions and 4928 deletions
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# https://editorconfig.org/
-
-[*]
-insert_final_newline = true # ensure all files end with a single newline
-trim_trailing_whitespace = true # attempt to remove trailing whitespace on save
-
-[*.md]
-trim_trailing_whitespace = false # in markdown, "two trailing spaces" is unfortunately meaningful; it means `<br>`
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md
@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
 ---
-name: 🛑 Report a bug in the runner application
-about: If you have issues with GitHub Actions, please follow the "support for GitHub Actions" link, below.
+name: Bug report
+about: Create a report to help us improve
 title: ''
 labels: bug
 assignees: ''

 ---

-<!--
-👋 You're opening a bug report against the GitHub Actions **runner application**.
-
-🛑 Please stop if you're not certain that the bug you're seeing is in the runner application - if you have general problems with actions, workflows, or runners, please see the [GitHub Community Support Forum](https://github.community/c/code-to-cloud/52) which is actively monitored.  Using the forum ensures that we route your problem to the correct team.  😃
-->
-
 **Describe the bug**
 A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-blank_issues_enabled: false
-contact_links:
-  - name: ✅ Support for GitHub Actions
-    url: https://github.community/c/code-to-cloud/52
-    about: If you have questions about GitHub Actions or need support writing workflows, please ask in the GitHub Community Support forum.
-  - name: ✅ Feedback and suggestions for GitHub Actions
-    url: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/actions-and-packages-feedback
-    about: If you have feedback or suggestions about GitHub Actions, please open a discussion (or add to an existing one) in the GitHub Actions Feedback.  GitHub Actions Product Managers and Engineers monitor the feedback forum.
-  - name: ‼️ GitHub Security Bug Bounty
-    url: https://bounty.github.com/
-    about: Please report security vulnerabilities here.
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/enhancement_request.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/enhancement_request.md
@@ -1,24 +1,19 @@
 ---
-name: 🛑 Request a feature in the runner application 
-about: If you have feature requests for GitHub Actions, please use the "feedback and suggestions for GitHub Actions" link below.
+name: Feature Request
+about: Create a request to help us improve
 title: ''
 labels: enhancement
 assignees: ''

 ---

-<!--
-👋 You're opening a request for an enhancement in the GitHub Actions **runner application**.
+Thank you 🙇‍♀ for wanting to create a feature in this repository. Before you do, please ensure you are filing the issue in the right place. Issues should only be opened on if the issue **relates to code in this repository**.  

-🛑 Please stop if you're not certain that the feature you want is in the runner application - if you have a suggestion for improving GitHub Actions, please see the [GitHub Actions Feedback](https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/actions-and-packages-feedback) discussion forum which is actively monitored.  Using the forum ensures that we route your problem to the correct team.  😃
-
-Some additional useful links:
 * If you have found a security issue [please submit it here](https://hackerone.com/github)
 * If you have questions or issues with the service, writing workflows or actions, then please [visit the GitHub Community Forum's Actions Board](https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/bd-p/actions)
-* If you are having an issue or have a question about GitHub Actions then please [contact customer support](https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/about-github-actions#contacting-support)
+* If you are having an issue or question about GitHub Actions then please [contact customer support](https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/about-github-actions#contacting-support)

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--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ jobs:
          devScript: ./dev.sh

        - runtime: win-x64
-          os: windows-2019
+          os: windows-latest
          devScript: ./dev

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1

    # Build runner layout
    - name: Build & Layout Release
@@ -57,29 +57,6 @@ jobs:
      working-directory: src
      if: matrix.runtime != 'linux-arm64' && matrix.runtime != 'linux-arm'

-    # Check runtime/externals hash
-    - name: Compute/Compare runtime and externals Hash
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        echo "Current dotnet runtime hash result: $DOTNET_RUNTIME_HASH"
-        echo "Current Externals hash result: $EXTERNALS_HASH"
-
-        NeedUpdate=0
-        if [ "$EXTERNALS_HASH" != "$(cat ./src/Misc/contentHash/externals/${{ matrix.runtime }})" ] ;then
-          echo Hash mismatch, Update ./src/Misc/contentHash/externals/${{ matrix.runtime }} to $EXTERNALS_HASH
-          NeedUpdate=1
-        fi
-
-        if [ "$DOTNET_RUNTIME_HASH" != "$(cat ./src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/${{ matrix.runtime }})" ] ;then
-          echo Hash mismatch, Update ./src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/${{ matrix.runtime }} to $DOTNET_RUNTIME_HASH
-          NeedUpdate=1
-        fi
-
-        exit $NeedUpdate
-      env:
-        DOTNET_RUNTIME_HASH: ${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/runtime/**/*')}}
-        EXTERNALS_HASH: ${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/externals/**/*')}}
-
    # Create runner package tar.gz/zip
    - name: Package Release
      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
@@ -90,11 +67,7 @@ jobs:
    # Upload runner package tar.gz/zip as artifact
    - name: Publish Artifact
      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: runner-package-${{ matrix.runtime }}
-        path: | 
-          _package
-          _package_trims/trim_externals
-          _package_trims/trim_runtime
-          _package_trims/trim_runtime_externals
+        path: _package
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 name: "Code Scanning - Action"

-permissions:
-  security-events: write
-
 on:
  push:
-    branches: 
-      - main
  pull_request:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 0'
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -51,21 +51,6 @@ jobs:
      linux-arm-sha: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.linux-arm-sha256 }}
      win-x64-sha: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.win-x64-sha256 }}
      osx-x64-sha: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.osx-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-x64-sha-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.linux-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm64-sha-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.linux-arm64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm-sha-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.linux-arm-sha256 }}
-      win-x64-sha-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.win-x64-sha256 }}
-      osx-x64-sha-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.osx-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-x64-sha-noruntime: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.linux-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm64-sha-noruntime: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.linux-arm64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm-sha-noruntime: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.linux-arm-sha256 }}
-      win-x64-sha-noruntime: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.win-x64-sha256 }}
-      osx-x64-sha-noruntime: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.osx-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.linux-x64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm64-sha-noruntime-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.linux-arm64-sha256 }}
-      linux-arm-sha-noruntime-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.linux-arm-sha256 }}
-      win-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.win-x64-sha256 }}
-      osx-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals: ${{ steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.osx-x64-sha256 }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        runtime: [ linux-x64, linux-arm64, linux-arm, win-x64, osx-x64 ]
@@ -87,12 +72,12 @@ jobs:
          devScript: ./dev.sh

        - runtime: win-x64
-          os: windows-2019
+          os: windows-latest
          devScript: ./dev

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1

    # Build runner layout
    - name: Build & Layout Release
@@ -114,6 +99,14 @@ jobs:
        ${{ matrix.devScript }} package Release ${{ matrix.runtime }}
      working-directory: src

+    # Upload runner package tar.gz/zip as artifact.
+    # Since each package name is unique, so we don't need to put ${{matrix}} info into artifact name
+    - name: Publish Artifact
+      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
+      with:
+        name: runner-packages
+        path: _package
    # compute shas and set as job outputs to use in release notes
    - run: brew install coreutils #needed for shasum util
      if: ${{ matrix.os == 'macOS-latest' }}
@@ -127,91 +120,6 @@ jobs:
      id: sha
      name: Compute SHA256
      working-directory: _package
-    - run: |
-        file=$(ls)
-        sha=$(sha256sum $file | awk '{ print $1 }')
-        echo "Computed sha256: $sha for $file"
-        echo "::set-output name=${{matrix.runtime}}-sha256::$sha"
-        echo "::set-output name=sha256::$sha"
-      shell: bash
-      id: sha_noexternals
-      name: Compute SHA256
-      working-directory: _package_trims/trim_externals
-    - run: |
-        file=$(ls)
-        sha=$(sha256sum $file | awk '{ print $1 }')
-        echo "Computed sha256: $sha for $file"
-        echo "::set-output name=${{matrix.runtime}}-sha256::$sha"
-        echo "::set-output name=sha256::$sha"
-      shell: bash
-      id: sha_noruntime
-      name: Compute SHA256
-      working-directory: _package_trims/trim_runtime
-    - run: |
-        file=$(ls)
-        sha=$(sha256sum $file | awk '{ print $1 }')
-        echo "Computed sha256: $sha for $file"
-        echo "::set-output name=${{matrix.runtime}}-sha256::$sha"
-        echo "::set-output name=sha256::$sha"
-      shell: bash
-      id: sha_noruntime_noexternals
-      name: Compute SHA256
-      working-directory: _package_trims/trim_runtime_externals
-    
-    - name: Create trimmedpackages.json for ${{ matrix.runtime }}
-      if: matrix.runtime == 'win-x64'
-      uses: actions/github-script@0.3.0
-      with:
-        github-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
-        script: |
-          const core = require('@actions/core')
-          const fs = require('fs');
-          const runnerVersion = fs.readFileSync('src/runnerversion', 'utf8').replace(/\n$/g, '')
-          var trimmedPackages = fs.readFileSync('src/Misc/trimmedpackages_zip.json', 'utf8').replace(/<RUNNER_VERSION>/g, runnerVersion).replace(/<RUNNER_PLATFORM>/g, '${{ matrix.runtime }}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<RUNTIME_HASH>/g, '${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/runtime/**/*')}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/externals/**/*')}}')
-
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_RUNTIME_EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.sha256}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_RUNTIME_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.sha256}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.sha256}}')
-
-          console.log(trimmedPackages)
-          fs.writeFileSync('${{ matrix.runtime }}-trimmedpackages.json', trimmedPackages)
-
-    - name: Create trimmedpackages.json for ${{ matrix.runtime }}
-      if: matrix.runtime != 'win-x64'
-      uses: actions/github-script@0.3.0
-      with:
-        github-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
-        script: |
-          const core = require('@actions/core')
-          const fs = require('fs');
-          const runnerVersion = fs.readFileSync('src/runnerversion', 'utf8').replace(/\n$/g, '')
-          var trimmedPackages = fs.readFileSync('src/Misc/trimmedpackages_targz.json', 'utf8').replace(/<RUNNER_VERSION>/g, runnerVersion).replace(/<RUNNER_PLATFORM>/g, '${{ matrix.runtime }}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<RUNTIME_HASH>/g, '${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/runtime/**/*')}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{hashFiles('**/_layout_trims/externals/**/*')}}')
-
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_RUNTIME_EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noruntime_noexternals.outputs.sha256}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_RUNTIME_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noruntime.outputs.sha256}}')
-          trimmedPackages = trimmedPackages.replace(/<NO_EXTERNALS_HASH>/g, '${{steps.sha_noexternals.outputs.sha256}}')
-
-          console.log(trimmedPackages)
-          fs.writeFileSync('${{ matrix.runtime }}-trimmedpackages.json', trimmedPackages)
-
-    # Upload runner package tar.gz/zip as artifact.
-    # Since each package name is unique, so we don't need to put ${{matrix}} info into artifact name
-    - name: Publish Artifact
-      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
-      with:
-        name: runner-packages
-        path: |
-          _package
-          _package_trims/trim_externals
-          _package_trims/trim_runtime
-          _package_trims/trim_runtime_externals
-          ${{ matrix.runtime }}-trimmedpackages.json
-
  release:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -242,21 +150,6 @@ jobs:
          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_X64_SHA>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-x64-sha}}')
          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM_SHA>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm-sha}}')
          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM64_SHA>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm64-sha}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<WIN_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.win-x64-sha-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<OSX_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.osx-x64-sha-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-x64-sha-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM_SHA_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm-sha-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm64-sha-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<WIN_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.win-x64-sha-noruntime}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<OSX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.osx-x64-sha-noruntime}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-x64-sha-noruntime}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM_SHA_NORUNTIME>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm-sha-noruntime}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NORUNTIME>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm64-sha-noruntime}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<WIN_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.win-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<OSX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.osx-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-x64-sha-noruntime-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm-sha-noruntime-noexternals}}')
-          releaseNote = releaseNote.replace(/<LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS>/g, '${{needs.build.outputs.linux-arm64-sha-noruntime-noexternals}}')
          console.log(releaseNote)
          core.setOutput('version', runnerVersion);
          core.setOutput('note', releaseNote);  
@@ -272,14 +165,14 @@ jobs:
        body: |
          ${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.note }}

-    # Upload release assets (full runner packages)
+    # Upload release assets
    - name: Upload Release Asset (win-x64)
      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package/actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.zip
+        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.zip
        asset_name: actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.zip
        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

@@ -289,7 +182,7 @@ jobs:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package/actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
+        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

@@ -299,7 +192,7 @@ jobs:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package/actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
+        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_name: actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

@@ -309,7 +202,7 @@ jobs:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package/actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
+        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream

@@ -319,210 +212,6 @@ jobs:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package/actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
+        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}.tar.gz
        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    # Upload release assets (trim externals)
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (win-x64-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_externals/actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.zip
-        asset_name: actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.zip
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-x64-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_externals/actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (osx-x64-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_externals/actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_externals/actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm64-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_externals/actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    # Upload release assets (trim runtime)
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (win-x64-noruntime)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime/actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.zip
-        asset_name: actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.zip
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-x64-noruntime)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime/actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (osx-x64-noruntime)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime/actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm-noruntime)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime/actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm64-noruntime)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime/actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    # Upload release assets (trim runtime and externals)
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (win-x64-noruntime-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime_externals/actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.zip
-        asset_name: actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.zip
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-x64-noruntime-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime_externals/actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (osx-x64-noruntime-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime_externals/actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm-noruntime-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime_externals/actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm64-noruntime-noexternals)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/_package_trims/trim_runtime_externals/actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    # Upload release assets (trimmedpackages.json)
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (win-x64-trimmedpackages.json)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/win-x64-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_name: actions-runner-win-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-x64-trimmedpackages.json)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/linux-x64-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (osx-x64-trimmedpackages.json)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/osx-x64-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_name: actions-runner-osx-x64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm-trimmedpackages.json)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/linux-arm-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
-
-    - name: Upload Release Asset (linux-arm64-trimmedpackages.json)
-      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      with:
-        upload_url: ${{ steps.createRelease.outputs.upload_url }}
-        asset_path: ${{ github.workspace }}/linux-arm64-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_name: actions-runner-linux-arm64-${{ steps.releaseNote.outputs.version }}-trimmedpackages.json
-        asset_content_type: application/octet-stream
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,9 +19,7 @@
 node_modules
 _downloads
 _layout
-_layout_trims
 _package
-_package_trims
 _dotnetsdk
 TestResults
 TestLogs
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # GitHub Actions Runner

 [![Actions Status](https://github.com/actions/runner/workflows/Runner%20CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/actions/runner/actions)
+[![Runner E2E Test](https://github.com/actions/runner/workflows/Runner%20E2E%20Test/badge.svg)](https://github.com/actions/runner/actions)

 The runner is the application that runs a job from a GitHub Actions workflow. It is used by GitHub Actions in the [hosted virtual environments](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments), or you can [self-host the runner](https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/about-self-hosted-runners) in your own environment.

--- a/docs/adrs/0276-problem-matchers.md
+++ b/docs/adrs/0276-problem-matchers.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Compilation failures during a CI build should surface good error messages.

 For example, the actual compile errors from the typescript compiler should bubble as issues in the UI. And not simply "tsc exited with exit code 1".

-VSCode has an extensible model for solving this type of problem. VSCode allows users to configure which [problems matchers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks#_defining-a-problem-matcher) to use, when scanning output. For example, a user can apply the `tsc` problem matcher to receive a rich error output experience in VSCode, when compiling their typescript project.
+VSCode has an extensible model for solving this type of problem. VSCode allows users to configure which problems matchers to use, when scanning output. For example, a user can apply the `tsc` problem matcher to receive a rich error output experience in VSCode, when compiling their typescript project.

 The problem-matcher concept fits well with "setup" actions. For example, the `setup-nodejs` action will download node.js, add it to the PATH, and register the `tsc` problem matcher. For the duration of the job, the `tsc` problem matcher will be applied against the output.

@@ -18,23 +18,21 @@ The problem-matcher concept fits well with "setup" actions. For example, the `se

 ### Registration

-#### Using `::` command
+#### Using `##` command

-`::add-matcher::path-to-problem-matcher-config.json`
+`##[add-matcher]path-to-problem-matcher-config.json`

-Using a `::` command allows for flexibility:
+Using a `##` command allows for flexibility:
 - Ad hoc scripts can register problem matchers
 - Allows problem matchers to be conditionally registered

 Note, if a matcher with the same name is registered a second time, it will clobber the first instance.

-Note, at some point the syntax changed from `##` to `::`.
-
-#### Unregister using `::` command
+#### Unregister using `##` command

 A way out for rare cases where scoping is a problem.

-`::remove-matcher::owner`
+`##[remove-matcher]owner`

 For this to be usable, the `owner` needs to be discoverable. Therefore, debug print the owner on registration.

@@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ message:  ; expected
 fromPath: C:\myrepo\myproject\ConsoleApp1\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj
 ```

-Additionally the line will appear red in the web UI (prefix with `::error`).
+Additionally the line will appear red in the web UI (prefix with `##[error]`).

 Note, an error does not imply task failure. Exit codes communicate failure.

--- a/docs/adrs/0354-runner-machine-info.md
+++ b/docs/adrs/0354-runner-machine-info.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The runner will look for a file `.setup_info` under the runner's root directory,
  }
 ]
 ```
-The runner will use `::group` and `::endgroup` to fold all detail info into an expandable group.
+The runner will use `##[group]` and `##[endgroup]` to fold all detail info into an expandable group.

 Both [virtual-environments](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments) and self-hosted runners can use this mechanism to add extra logging info to the `Set up job` step's log.

--- a/docs/adrs/1438-conditional-composite.md
+++ b/docs/adrs/1438-conditional-composite.md
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# ADR 1438: Support Conditionals In Composite Actions
-
-**Date**: 2021-10-13
-
-**Status**: Accepted
-
-## Context
-
-We recently shipped composite actions, which allows you to reuse individual steps inside an action. 
-However, one of the [most requested features](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/834) has been a way to support the `if` keyword.
-
-### Goals
- We want to keep consistent with current behavior
- We want to support conditionals via the `if` keyword
- Our built in functions like `success` should be implementable without calling them, for example you can do `job.status == success` rather then `success()` currently.
-
-### How does composite currently work?
-
-Currently, we have limited conditional support in composite actions for `pre` and `post` steps. 
-These are based on the `job status`, and support keywords like `always()`, `failed()`, `success()` and `cancelled()`. 
-However, generic or main steps do **not** support conditionals.
-
-By default, in a regular workflow, a step runs on the `success()` condition. Which looks at the **job** **status**, sees if it is successful and runs.
-
-By default, in a composite action, main steps run until a single step fails in that composite action, then the composite action is halted early. It does **not** care about the job status.
-Pre, and post steps in composite actions use the job status to determine if they should run.
-
-### How do we go forward?
-
-Well, if we think about what composite actions are currently doing when invoking main steps, they are checking if the current composite action is successful. 
-Lets formalize that concept into a "real" idea.
-
- We will add an `action_status` field to the github context to mimic the [job's context status](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/contexts#job-context).
-  - We have an existing concept that does this `action_path` which is only set for composite actions on the github context.
- In a composite action during a main step, the `success()` function will check if `action_status == success`, rather then `job_status == success`. Failure will work the same way. 
-  - Pre and post steps in composite actions will not change, they will continue to check the job status.
-
-
-### Nested Scenario
-For nested composite actions, we will follow the existing behavior, you only care about your current composite action, not any parents. 
-For example, lets imagine a scenario with a simple nested composite action
-
-```
- Job
-  - Regular Step
-  - Composite Action
-    - runs: exit 1
-    - if: always()
-      uses: A child composite action
-        - if: success()
-          runs: echo "this should print"
-        - runs: echo "this should also print"
-    - if: success()
-      runs: echo "this will not print as the current composite action has failed already"
-      
-```
-The child composite actions steps should run in this example, the child composite action has not yet failed, so it should run all steps until a step fails. This is consistent with how a composite action currently works in production if the main job fails but a composite action is invoked with `if:always()` or `if: failure()`
-
-### Other options explored
-We could add the `current_step_status` to the job context rather then `__status` to the steps context, however this comes with two major downsides:
- We need to support the field for every type of step, because its non trivial to remove a field from the job context once it has been added (its readonly)
-  - For all actions besides composite it would only every be `success`
-  - Its weird to have a `current_step` value on the job context
- We also explored a `__status` on the steps context.
-  - The `__` is required to prevent us from colliding with a step with id: status
-  - This felt wrong because the naming was not smooth, and did not fit into current conventions.
-
-### Consequences
- github context has a new field for the status of the current composite action.
- We support conditional's in composite actions
- We keep the existing behavior for all users, but allow them to expand that functionality.
--- a/docs/automate.md
+++ b/docs/automate.md
@@ -26,23 +26,6 @@ Run as a one-liner. NOTE: replace with yourorg/yourrepo (repo level) or just you
 curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actions/runner/main/scripts/create-latest-svc.sh | bash -s yourorg/yourrepo
 ```

-You can call the script with additional arguments:
-```bash
-#   Usage:
-#       export RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT>
-#       ./create-latest-svc -s scope -g [ghe_domain] -n [name] -u [user] -l [labels]
-#       -s          required  scope: repo (:owner/:repo) or org (:organization)
-#       -g          optional  ghe_hostname: the fully qualified domain name of your GitHub Enterprise Server deployment
-#       -n          optional  name of the runner, defaults to hostname
-#       -u          optional  user svc will run as, defaults to current
-#       -l          optional  list of labels (split by comma) applied on the runner"
-```
-
-Use `--` to pass any number of optional named parameters:
-
-```
-curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actions/runner/main/scripts/create-latest-svc.sh | bash -s -- -s myorg/myrepo -n myname -l label1,label2
-```
 ### Why can't I use a container?

 The runner is installed as a service using `systemd` and `systemctl`. Docker does not support `systemd` for service configuration on a container.
--- a/docs/checks/network.md
+++ b/docs/checks/network.md
@@ -2,19 +2,17 @@

 ### Common things that can cause the runner to not working properly

- A bug in the runner or the dotnet framework that causes the actions runner to be unable to make Http requests in a certain network environment.
+- Bug in the runner or the dotnet framework that causes actions runner can't make Http request in a certain network environment.

- A Proxy or Firewall may block certain HTTP method, such as blocking all POST and PUT calls which the runner will use to upload logs.
+- Proxy/Firewall block certain HTTP method, like it block all POST and PUT calls which the runner will use to upload logs.

- A Proxy or Firewall may only allows requests with certain user-agent to pass through and the actions runner user-agent is not in the allow list.
+- Proxy/Firewall only allows requests with certain user-agent to pass through and the actions runner user-agent is not in the allow list.

- A Proxy try to decrypt and exam HTTPS traffic for security purpose but cause the actions-runner to fail to finish SSL handshake due to the lack of trusting proxy's CA.
+- Proxy try to decrypt and exam HTTPS traffic for security purpose but cause the actions-runner to fail to finish SSL handshake due to the lack of trusting proxy's CA.

- The SSL handshake may fail if the client and server do not support the same TLS version, or the same cipher suites.
+- Proxy try to modify the HTTPS request (like add or change some http headers) and causes the request become incompatible with the Actions Service (ASP.NetCore), Ex: [Nginx](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/17081)

- A Proxy may try to modify the HTTPS request (like add or change some http headers) and causes the request become incompatible with the Actions Service (ASP.NetCore), Ex: [Nginx](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/17081)
-
- Firewall rules that block action runner from accessing certain hosts, ex: `*.github.com`, `*.actions.githubusercontent.com`, etc
+- Firewall rules that block action runner from accessing certain hosts, ex: `*.github.com`, `*.actions.githubusercontent.com`, etc.


 ### Identify and solve these problems
@@ -32,31 +30,3 @@ Use a 3rd party tool to make the same requests as the runner did would be a good
 If the 3rd party tool is also experiencing the same error as the runner does, then you might want to contact your network administrator for help.

 Otherwise, contact GitHub customer support or log an issue at https://github.com/actions/runner
-
-### Troubleshooting: Why can't I configure a runner?
-
-If you are having trouble connecting, try these steps:
-
-1. Validate you can reach our endpoints from your web browser. If not, double check your local network connection
-    - For hosted Github:
-      - https://api.github.com/
-      - https://vstoken.actions.githubusercontent.com/_apis/health
-      - https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/_apis/health
-    - For GHES/GHAE
-      - https://myGHES.com/_services/vstoken/_apis/health
-      - https://myGHES.com/_services/pipelines/_apis/health
-      - https://myGHES.com/api/v3
-2. Validate you can reach those endpoints in powershell core
-    - The runner runs on .net core, lets validate the local settings for that stack
-    - Open up `pwsh`
-    - Run the command using the urls above `Invoke-WebRequest {url}`
-3. If not, get a packet trace using a tool like wireshark and start looking at the TLS handshake.
-    - If you see a Client Hello followed by a Server RST:
-      - You may need to configure your TLS settings to use the correct version
-        - You should support TLS version 1.2 or later
-      - You may need to configure your TLS settings to have up to date cipher suites, this may be solved by system updates and patches.
-        - Most notably, on windows server 2012 make sure [the tls cipher suite update](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-adds-new-tls-cipher-suites-and-changes-cipher-suite-priorities-in-windows-8-1-and-windows-server-2012-r2-8e395e43-c8ef-27d8-b60c-0fc57d526d94) is installed
-      - Your firewall, proxy or network configuration may be blocking the connection
-      - You will want to reach out to whoever is in charge of your network with these pcap files to further troubleshoot
-    - If you see a failure later in the handshake:
-      - Try the fix in the [SSLCert Fix](./sslcert.md)
--- a/docs/contribute.md
+++ b/docs/contribute.md
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ An ADR is an Architectural Decision Record.  This allows consensus on the direct

 ![Win](res/win_sm.png) ![*nix](res/linux_sm.png)  Git for Windows and Linux [Install Here](https://git-scm.com/downloads) (needed for dev sh script)

-![*nix](res/linux_sm.png) cURL [Install here](https://curl.se/download.html) (needed for external sh script)
-
-![Win](res/win_sm.png) Visual Studio 2017 or newer [Install here](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com) (needed for dev sh script)
-
 ## Quickstart: Run a job from a real repository

 If you just want to get from building the sourcecode to using it to execute an action, you will need:
--- a/docs/res/github-graph.png
+++ b/docs/res/github-graph.png
--- a/docs/start/envlinux.md
+++ b/docs/start/envlinux.md
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ You might see something like this which indicate a dependency's missing.
 ./config.sh
    libunwind.so.8 => not found
    libunwind-x86_64.so.8 => not found
-Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0
-Execute ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 6.0 dependencies.
+Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 3.0
+Execute ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 3.0 dependencies.
 ```
 You can easily correct the problem by executing `./bin/installdependencies.sh`.  
 The `installdependencies.sh` script should install all required dependencies on all supported Linux versions   
--- a/releaseNote.md
+++ b/releaseNote.md
@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 ## Features

- Add Runner Configuration option to disable auto update `--disableupdate` (#1558)
- Introduce `GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_TLS_NO_VERIFY` env variable to skip SSL Cert Verification on the Runner (#1616)
- Adds support for downloading trimmed versions of the runner when the entire package does not need to be upgraded (#1568)
+- Adds support for composite actions if the server supports it (#1222)
+- Adds `generateIdTokenUri` to env variables for actions (#1234)

 ## Bugs
- Set Outcome/Conclusion for composite action steps (#1600)
+
+- Prefer higher `libicu` versions in `installDependencies.sh` (#1228)
+

 ## Misc

- Update `run.sh` to more gracefully handle updates (#1494)
- Use 8Mb default chunking for File Container Uploads (#1626)
- Performance improvements in handling large amounts of live logs (#1592)
- Allow `./svc.sh stop` to exit as soon as runner process exits (#1580)
- Add additional tracing to help troubleshoot job message corruption (#1587)
-
+- Send step telemetry to server on JobCompletion (#1229)
+- Print out the resolved SHA for each downloaded action (#1233)

 ## Windows x64
 We recommend configuring the runner in a root folder of the Windows drive (e.g. "C:\actions-runner"). This will help avoid issues related to service identity folder permissions and long file path restrictions on Windows.
@@ -86,21 +83,3 @@ The SHA-256 checksums for the packages included in this build are shown below:
 - actions-runner-linux-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-x64 --><LINUX_X64_SHA><!-- END SHA linux-x64 -->
 - actions-runner-linux-arm64-<RUNNER_VERSION>.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm64 --><LINUX_ARM64_SHA><!-- END SHA linux-arm64 -->
 - actions-runner-linux-arm-<RUNNER_VERSION>.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm --><LINUX_ARM_SHA><!-- END SHA linux-arm -->
-
- actions-runner-win-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.zip <!-- BEGIN SHA win-x64_noexternals --><WIN_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA win-x64_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-osx-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA osx-x64_noexternals --><OSX_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA osx-x64_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-x64_noexternals --><LINUX_X64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-x64_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm64_noexternals --><LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-arm64_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm_noexternals --><LINUX_ARM_SHA_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-arm_noexternals -->
-
- actions-runner-win-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.zip <!-- BEGIN SHA win-x64_noruntime --><WIN_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME><!-- END SHA win-x64_noruntime -->
- actions-runner-osx-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA osx-x64_noruntime --><OSX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME><!-- END SHA osx-x64_noruntime -->
- actions-runner-linux-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-x64_noruntime --><LINUX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME><!-- END SHA linux-x64_noruntime -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm64_noruntime --><LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NORUNTIME><!-- END SHA linux-arm64_noruntime -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm_noruntime --><LINUX_ARM_SHA_NORUNTIME><!-- END SHA linux-arm_noruntime -->
-
- actions-runner-win-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.zip <!-- BEGIN SHA win-x64_noruntime_noexternals --><WIN_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA win-x64_noruntime_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-osx-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA osx-x64_noruntime_noexternals --><OSX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA osx-x64_noruntime_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-x64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-x64_noruntime_noexternals --><LINUX_X64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-x64_noruntime_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm64-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm64_noruntime_noexternals --><LINUX_ARM64_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-arm64_noruntime_noexternals -->
- actions-runner-linux-arm-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz <!-- BEGIN SHA linux-arm_noruntime_noexternals --><LINUX_ARM_SHA_NORUNTIME_NOEXTERNALS><!-- END SHA linux-arm_noruntime_noexternals -->
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.287.0
+2.280.0
--- a/scripts/create-latest-svc.sh
+++ b/scripts/create-latest-svc.sh
@@ -2,68 +2,36 @@

 set -e

+#
+# Downloads latest releases (not pre-release) runner
+# Configures as a service
+#
+# Examples:
+# RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT> ./create-latest-svc.sh myuser/myrepo my.ghe.deployment.net
+# RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT> ./create-latest-svc.sh myorg my.ghe.deployment.net
+#
+# Usage:
+#     export RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT>
+#     ./create-latest-svc scope [ghe_domain] [name] [user] [labels]
+#
+#      scope       required  repo (:owner/:repo) or org (:organization)
+#      ghe_domain  optional  the fully qualified domain name of your GitHub Enterprise Server deployment
+#      name        optional  defaults to hostname
+#      user        optional  user svc will run as. defaults to current
+#      labels      optional  list of labels (split by comma) applied on the runner
+#
 # Notes:
 # PATS over envvars are more secure
-# Downloads latest runner release (not pre-release)
-# Configures it as a service more secure
 # Should be used on VMs and not containers
 # Works on OSX and Linux
 # Assumes x64 arch
-# See EXAMPLES below
+#

-flags_found=false
-
-while getopts 's:g:n:u:l:' opt; do
-    flags_found=true
-
-    case $opt in
-    s)
-        runner_scope=$OPTARG
-        ;;
-    g)
-        ghe_hostname=$OPTARG
-        ;;
-    n)
-        runner_name=$OPTARG
-        ;;
-    u)
-        svc_user=$OPTARG
-        ;;
-    l)
-        labels=$OPTARG
-        ;;
-    *)
-        echo "
-Runner Service Installer
-Examples:
-RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT> ./create-latest-svc.sh myuser/myrepo my.ghe.deployment.net
-RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT> ./create-latest-svc.sh -s myorg -u user_name -l label1,label2
-Usage:
-    export RUNNER_CFG_PAT=<yourPAT>
-    ./create-latest-svc scope [ghe_domain] [name] [user] [labels]
-    -s          required  scope: repo (:owner/:repo) or org (:organization)
-    -g          optional  ghe_hostname: the fully qualified domain name of your GitHub Enterprise Server deployment
-    -n          optional  name of the runner, defaults to hostname
-    -u          optional  user svc will run as, defaults to current
-    -l          optional  list of labels (split by comma) applied on the runner"
-        exit 0
-        ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-shift "$((OPTIND - 1))"
-
-if ! "$flags_found"; then
-    runner_scope=${1}
-    ghe_hostname=${2}
-    runner_name=${3:-$(hostname)}
-    svc_user=${4:-$USER}
-    labels=${5}
-fi
-
-# apply defaults
-runner_name=${runner_name:-$(hostname)}
-svc_user=${svc_user:-$USER}
+runner_scope=${1}
+ghe_hostname=${2}
+runner_name=${3:-$(hostname)}
+svc_user=${4:-$USER}
+labels=${5}

 echo "Configuring runner @ ${runner_scope}"
 sudo echo
@@ -174,7 +142,7 @@ echo
 echo "Configuring as a service ..."
 prefix=""
 if [ "${runner_plat}" == "linux" ]; then
-    prefix="sudo "
+prefix="sudo "
 fi

 ${prefix}./svc.sh install ${svc_user}
--- a/scripts/delete.sh
+++ b/scripts/delete.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ fi
 # Ensure offline
 #--------------------------------------
 runner_status=$(curl -s -X GET ${base_api_url}/${runner_scope}/actions/runners?per_page=100  -H "accept: application/vnd.github.everest-preview+json" -H "authorization: token ${RUNNER_CFG_PAT}" \
-        | jq -M -j ".runners | .[] | select(.name == \"${runner_name}\") | .status")
+        | jq -M -j ".runners | .[] | [select(.name == \"${runner_name}\")] | .[0].status")

 if [ -z "${runner_status}" ]; then 
    fatal "Could not find runner with name ${runner_name}"
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ fi
 # Get id of runner to remove
 #--------------------------------------
 runner_id=$(curl -s -X GET ${base_api_url}/${runner_scope}/actions/runners?per_page=100  -H "accept: application/vnd.github.everest-preview+json" -H "authorization: token ${RUNNER_CFG_PAT}" \
-        | jq -M -j ".runners | .[] | select(.name == \"${runner_name}\") | .id")
+        | jq -M -j ".runners | .[] | [select(.name == \"${runner_name}\")] | .[0].id")

 if [ -z "${runner_id}" ]; then 
    fatal "Could not find runner with name ${runner_name}"
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-arm
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-arm
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-de62d296708908cfd1236e58869aebbc2bae8a8c3d629276968542626c508e37
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-arm64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-arm64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-44fcd0422dd98ed17d2c8e9057ff2260c50165f20674236a4ae7d2645a07df25
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/linux-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-e57652cf322ee16ce3af4f9e58f80858746b9e1e60279e991a3b3d9a6baf8d79
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/osx-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/osx-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-bdd247b2ff3f51095524412e2ac588e7a87af805e114d6caf2368366ee7be1ea
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/win-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/dotnetRuntime/win-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-d23a0cb9f20c0aa1cddb7a39567cd097020cdeb06a1e952940601d1a405c53b8
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-arm
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-arm
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-6ca4a0e1c50b7079ead05321dcf5835c1c25f23dc632add8c1c4667d416d103e
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-arm64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-arm64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-b5951dc607d782d9c7571a7224e940eb0975bb23c54ff25c7afdbf959a417081
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/linux-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-af819e92011cc9cbca90e8299f9f7651f2cf6bf45b42920f9a4ca22795486147
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/osx-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/osx-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-aa0e6bf4bfaabf48c962ea3b262dca042629ab332005f73d282faec908847036
--- a/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/win-x64
+++ b/src/Misc/contentHash/externals/win-x64
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-40328cff2b8229f9b578f32739183bd8f6aab481c21dadc052b09f1c7e8e4665
--- a/src/Misc/expressionFunc/hashFiles/package-lock.json
+++ b/src/Misc/expressionFunc/hashFiles/package-lock.json
@@ -1947,9 +1947,9 @@
      "dev": true
    },
    "path-parse": {
-      "version": "1.0.7",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/path-parse/-/path-parse-1.0.7.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-LDJzPVEEEPR+y48z93A0Ed0yXb8pAByGWo/k5YYdYgpY2/2EsOsksJrq7lOHxryrVOn1ejG6oAp8ahvOIQD8sw==",
+      "version": "1.0.6",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/path-parse/-/path-parse-1.0.6.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-GSmOT2EbHrINBf9SR7CDELwlJ8AENk3Qn7OikK4nFYAu3Ote2+JYNVvkpAEQm3/TLNEJFD/xZJjzyxg3KBWOzw==",
      "dev": true
    },
    "path-type": {
--- a/src/Misc/externals.sh
+++ b/src/Misc/externals.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ PRECACHE=$2

 NODE_URL=https://nodejs.org/dist
 NODE12_VERSION="12.13.1"
-NODE16_VERSION="16.13.0"

 get_abs_path() {
  # exploits the fact that pwd will print abs path when no args
@@ -127,8 +126,6 @@ function acquireExternalTool() {
 if [[ "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "win-x64" || "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "win-x86" ]]; then
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/$PACKAGERUNTIME/node.exe" node12/bin
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/$PACKAGERUNTIME/node.lib" node12/bin
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/$PACKAGERUNTIME/node.exe" node16/bin
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/$PACKAGERUNTIME/node.lib" node16/bin
    if [[ "$PRECACHE" != "" ]]; then
        acquireExternalTool "https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases/download/2.6.7/vswhere.exe" vswhere
    fi
@@ -137,23 +134,18 @@ fi
 # Download the external tools only for OSX.
 if [[ "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "osx-x64" ]]; then
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/node-v${NODE12_VERSION}-darwin-x64.tar.gz" node12 fix_nested_dir
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/node-v${NODE16_VERSION}-darwin-x64.tar.gz" node16 fix_nested_dir
 fi

 # Download the external tools for Linux PACKAGERUNTIMEs.
 if [[ "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "linux-x64" ]]; then
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/node-v${NODE12_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.gz" node12 fix_nested_dir
    acquireExternalTool "https://vstsagenttools.blob.core.windows.net/tools/nodejs/${NODE12_VERSION}/alpine/x64/node-${NODE12_VERSION}-alpine-x64.tar.gz" node12_alpine
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/node-v${NODE16_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.gz" node16 fix_nested_dir
-    acquireExternalTool "https://vstsagenttools.blob.core.windows.net/tools/nodejs/${NODE16_VERSION}/alpine/x64/node-v${NODE16_VERSION}-alpine-x64.tar.gz" node16_alpine
 fi

 if [[ "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "linux-arm64" ]]; then
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/node-v${NODE12_VERSION}-linux-arm64.tar.gz" node12 fix_nested_dir
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/node-v${NODE16_VERSION}-linux-arm64.tar.gz" node16 fix_nested_dir
 fi

 if [[ "$PACKAGERUNTIME" == "linux-arm" ]]; then
    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE12_VERSION}/node-v${NODE12_VERSION}-linux-armv7l.tar.gz" node12 fix_nested_dir
-    acquireExternalTool "$NODE_URL/v${NODE16_VERSION}/node-v${NODE16_VERSION}-linux-armv7l.tar.gz" node16 fix_nested_dir
 fi
--- a/src/Misc/layoutbin/RunnerService.js
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutbin/RunnerService.js
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ var gracefulShutdown = function (code) {
        listener.kill('SIGINT');

        console.log('Sending SIGKILL to runner listener');
-        setTimeout(() => listener.kill('SIGKILL'), 30000).unref();
+        setTimeout(() => listener.kill('SIGKILL'), 30000);
    }
 }

--- a/src/Misc/layoutbin/actions.runner.plist.template
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutbin/actions.runner.plist.template
@@ -25,7 +25,5 @@
    </dict>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Interactive</string>
-    <key>SessionCreate</key>
-    <true/>
  </dict>
 </plist>
--- a/src/Misc/layoutbin/update.sh.template
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutbin/update.sh.template
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ downloadrunnerversion=_DOWNLOAD_RUNNER_VERSION_
 logfile="_UPDATE_LOG_"
 restartinteractiverunner=_RESTART_INTERACTIVE_RUNNER_

-telemetryfile="$rootfolder/_diag/.telemetry"
-
 # log user who run the script
 date "+[%F %T-%4N] --------whoami--------" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
 whoami >> "$logfile" 2>&1
@@ -120,58 +118,6 @@ then
    exit 1
 fi

-# fix upgrade issue with macOS when running as a service
-attemptedtargetedfix=0
-currentplatform=$(uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
-if [[ "$currentplatform" == 'darwin'  && restartinteractiverunner -eq 0 ]]; then
-    # We needed a fix for https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/743
-    # We will recreate the ./externals/node12/bin/node of the past runner version that launched the runnerlistener service
-    # Otherwise mac gatekeeper kills the processes we spawn on creation as we are running a process with no backing file
-
-    # We need the pid for the nodejs loop, get that here, its the parent of the runner C# pid
-    # assumption here is only one process is invoking rootfolder/runsvc.sh
-    procgroup=$(ps x -o pgid,command | grep "$rootfolder/runsvc.sh" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')
-    if [[ $? -eq 0 && -n "$procgroup" ]]
-    then
-        # inspect the open file handles to find the node process
-        # we can't actually inspect the process using ps because it uses relative paths and doesn't follow symlinks
-        path=$(lsof -a -g "$procgroup" -F n | grep node12/bin/node | grep externals | tail -1 | cut -c2-)
-        if [[ $? -eq 0 && -n "$path" ]]
-        then
-            # trim the last 5 characters of the path '/node'
-            trimmedpath=$(dirname "$path")
-            if [[ $? -eq 0 && -n "$trimmedpath" ]]
-            then
-                attemptedtargetedfix=1
-                # Create the path if it does not exist
-                if [[ ! -e "$path" ]]
-                then
-                    date "+[%F %T-%4N] Creating fallback node at path $path" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-                    mkdir -p "$trimmedpath"
-                    cp "$rootfolder/externals/node12/bin/node" "$path"
-                else
-                    date "+[%F %T-%4N] Path for fallback node exists, skipping creating $path" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-                fi
-            else
-                date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to trim runner path. TrimmedPath: $trimmedpath, path: $path, pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-                date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to trim runner path. TrimmedPath: $trimmedpath, path: $path, pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$telemetryfile" 2>&1
-            fi
-        else
-            date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to find runner path. Path: $path, pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-            date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to find runner path. Path: $path, pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$telemetryfile" 2>&1
-        fi
-    else
-        runproc=$(ps x -o pgid,command | grep "run.sh" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')
-        if [[ $? -eq 0 && -n "$runproc" ]]
-        then
-            date "+[%F %T-%4N] Running as ephemeral using run.sh, no need to recreate node folder" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-        else
-            date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to find runner pgid. pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$logfile" 2>&1
-            date "+[%F %T-%4N] DarwinRunnerUpgrade: Failed to find runner pgid. pgid: $procgroup, root: $rootfolder" >> "$telemetryfile" 2>&1
-        fi
-    fi
-fi
-
 date "+[%F %T-%4N] Update succeed" >> "$logfile"

 # rename the update log file with %logfile%.succeed/.failed/succeedneedrestart
--- a/src/Misc/layoutroot/config.sh
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutroot/config.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ if [ $user_id -eq 0 -a -z "$RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT" ]; then
    exit 1
 fi

-# Check dotnet Core 6.0 dependencies for Linux
+# Check dotnet core 3.0 dependencies for Linux
 if [[ (`uname` == "Linux") ]]
 then
    command -v ldd > /dev/null
@@ -18,25 +18,25 @@ then
        exit 1
    fi

-    message="Execute sudo ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 6.0 dependencies."
+    message="Execute sudo ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 3.0 dependencies."

    ldd ./bin/libcoreclr.so | grep 'not found'
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0"
+        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 3.0"
        echo $message
        exit 1
    fi

-    ldd ./bin/libSystem.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.so | grep 'not found'
+    ldd ./bin/System.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.so | grep 'not found'
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0"
+        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 3.0"
        echo $message
        exit 1
    fi

-    ldd ./bin/libSystem.IO.Compression.Native.so | grep 'not found'
+    ldd ./bin/System.IO.Compression.Native.so | grep 'not found'
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0"
+        echo "Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 3.0"
        echo $message
        exit 1
    fi
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ then
    libpath=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}
    $LDCONFIG_COMMAND -NXv ${libpath//:/ } 2>&1 | grep libicu >/dev/null 2>&1
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-        echo "Libicu's dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 6.0"
+        echo "Libicu's dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 3.0"
        echo $message
        exit 1
    fi
--- a/src/Misc/layoutroot/run-helper.cmd.template
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutroot/run-helper.cmd.template
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-@echo off
-
-"%~dp0\bin\Runner.Listener.exe" run %*
-
-rem using `if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU N` insterad of `if ERRORLEVEL N`
-rem `if ERRORLEVEL N` means: error level is N or MORE
-  
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
-  echo "Runner listener exit with 0 return code, stop the service, no retry needed."
-  exit /b 0
-)
-
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (
-  echo "Runner listener exit with terminated error, stop the service, no retry needed."
-  exit /b 0
-)
-
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 2 (
-  echo "Runner listener exit with retryable error, re-launch runner in 5 seconds."
-  ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 -w 1000 >NUL
-  exit /b 1
-)
-
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 3 (
-  rem Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the runner update process finish
-  echo "Runner listener exit because of updating, re-launch runner in 5 seconds"
-  ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 -w 1000 >NUL
-  exit /b 1
-)
-
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 4 (
-  rem Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the ephemeral runner update process finish
-  echo "Runner listener exit because of updating, re-launch ephemeral runner in 5 seconds"
-  ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 -w 1000 >NUL
-  exit /b 1
-)
-
-echo "Exiting after unknown error code: %ERRORLEVEL%"
-exit /b 0
--- a/src/Misc/layoutroot/run-helper.sh.template
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutroot/run-helper.sh.template
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Validate not sudo
-user_id=`id -u`
-if [ $user_id -eq 0 -a -z "$RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT" ]; then
-    echo "Must not run interactively with sudo"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# Run
-shopt -s nocasematch
-
-safe_sleep() {
-    if [ ! -x "$(command -v sleep)" ]; then
-        if [ ! -x "$(command -v ping)" ]; then
-            COUNT="0"
-            while [[ $COUNT != 5000 ]]; do
-                echo "SLEEP" > /dev/null
-                COUNT=$[$COUNT+1]
-            done
-        else
-            ping -c 5 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null
-        fi
-    else
-        sleep 5
-    fi
-}
-
-bin/Runner.Listener run $*
-returnCode=$?
-if [[ $returnCode == 0 ]]; then
-    echo "Runner listener exit with 0 return code, stop the service, no retry needed."
-    exit 0
-elif [[ $returnCode == 1 ]]; then
-    echo "Runner listener exit with terminated error, stop the service, no retry needed."
-    exit 0
-elif [[ $returnCode == 2 ]]; then
-    echo "Runner listener exit with retryable error, re-launch runner in 5 seconds."
-    safe_sleep
-    exit 1
-elif [[ $returnCode == 3 ]]; then
-    # Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the runner update process finish
-    echo "Runner listener exit because of updating, re-launch runner in 5 seconds"
-    safe_sleep
-    exit 1
-elif [[ $returnCode == 4 ]]; then
-    # Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the ephemeral runner update process finish
-    echo "Runner listener exit because of updating, re-launch ephemeral runner in 5 seconds"
-    safe_sleep
-    exit 1
-else
-    echo "Exiting with unknown error code: ${returnCode}"
-    exit 0
-fi
--- a/src/Misc/layoutroot/run.cmd
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutroot/run.cmd
@@ -13,19 +13,21 @@ if defined VERBOSE_ARG (
 rem Unblock files in the root of the layout folder. E.g. .cmd files.
 powershell.exe -NoLogo -Sta -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "$VerbosePreference = %VERBOSE_ARG% ; Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath '%~dp0' | ForEach-Object { Write-Verbose ('Unblock: {0}' -f $_.FullName) ; $_ } | Unblock-File | Out-Null"

-
-rem ********************************************************************************
-rem Run.
-rem ********************************************************************************
-
-:launch_helper
-copy run-helper.cmd.template run-helper.cmd /Y
-call "%~dp0run-helper.cmd" %*
-  
-if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (
-  echo "Restarting runner..."
-  goto :launch_helper
+if /i "%~1" equ "localRun" (
+    rem ********************************************************************************
+    rem Local run.
+    rem ********************************************************************************
+    "%~dp0bin\Runner.Listener.exe" %*
 ) else (
-  echo "Exiting runner..."
-  exit 0
+  rem ********************************************************************************
+  rem Run.
+  rem ********************************************************************************
+  "%~dp0bin\Runner.Listener.exe" run %*
+
+  rem Return code 4 means the run once runner received an update message.
+  rem Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the update process finish and run the runner again.
+  if ERRORLEVEL 4 (
+    timeout /t 5 /nobreak > NUL
+    "%~dp0bin\Runner.Listener.exe" run %*
+  )
 )
--- a/src/Misc/layoutroot/run.sh
+++ b/src/Misc/layoutroot/run.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash

+# Validate not sudo
+user_id=`id -u`
+if [ $user_id -eq 0 -a -z "$RUNNER_ALLOW_RUNASROOT" ]; then
+    echo "Must not run interactively with sudo"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 # Change directory to the script root directory
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/getting-the-source-directory-of-a-bash-script-from-within
 SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
@@ -9,16 +16,34 @@ while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symli
  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
 done
 DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
-cp -f run-helper.sh.template run-helper.sh
-# run the helper process which keep the listener alive
-while :;
-do
-    "$DIR"/run-helper.sh $*
+
+# Do not "cd $DIR". For localRun, the current directory is expected to be the repo location on disk.
+
+# Run
+shopt -s nocasematch
+if [[ "$1" == "localRun" ]]; then
+    "$DIR"/bin/Runner.Listener $*
+else
+    "$DIR"/bin/Runner.Listener run $*
+
+# Return code 3 means the run once runner received an update message.
+# Sleep 5 seconds to wait for the update process finish
    returnCode=$?
-    if [[ $returnCode == 1 ]]; then
-        echo "Restarting runner..."
+    if [[ $returnCode == 3 ]]; then
+        if [ ! -x "$(command -v sleep)" ]; then
+            if [ ! -x "$(command -v ping)" ]; then
+                COUNT="0"
+                while [[ $COUNT != 5000 ]]; do
+                    echo "SLEEP" > /dev/null
+                    COUNT=$[$COUNT+1]
+                done
            else
-        echo "Exiting runner..."
-        exit 0
+                ping -c 5 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null
            fi
-done
+        else
+            sleep 5
+        fi
+    else
+        exit $returnCode
+    fi
+fi
--- a/src/Misc/runnercoreassets
+++ b/src/Misc/runnercoreassets
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-actions.runner.plist.template
-actions.runner.service.template
-checkScripts/downloadCert.js
-checkScripts/makeWebRequest.js
-darwin.svc.sh.template
-hashFiles/index.js
-installdependencies.sh
-macos-run-invoker.js
-Microsoft.IdentityModel.Logging.dll
-Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.dll
-Minimatch.dll
-Newtonsoft.Json.Bson.dll
-Newtonsoft.Json.dll
-Runner.Common.deps.json
-Runner.Common.dll
-Runner.Common.pdb
-Runner.Listener
-Runner.Listener.deps.json
-Runner.Listener.dll
-Runner.Listener.exe
-Runner.Listener.pdb
-Runner.Listener.runtimeconfig.json
-Runner.PluginHost
-Runner.PluginHost.deps.json
-Runner.PluginHost.dll
-Runner.PluginHost.exe
-Runner.PluginHost.pdb
-Runner.PluginHost.runtimeconfig.json
-Runner.Plugins.deps.json
-Runner.Plugins.dll
-Runner.Plugins.pdb
-Runner.Sdk.deps.json
-Runner.Sdk.dll
-Runner.Sdk.pdb
-Runner.Worker
-Runner.Worker.deps.json
-Runner.Worker.dll
-Runner.Worker.exe
-Runner.Worker.pdb
-Runner.Worker.runtimeconfig.json
-RunnerService.exe
-RunnerService.exe.config
-RunnerService.js
-RunnerService.pdb
-runsvc.sh
-Sdk.deps.json
-Sdk.dll
-Sdk.pdb
-System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt.dll
-System.Net.Http.Formatting.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll
-System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.dll
-systemd.svc.sh.template
-update.cmd.template
-update.sh.template
-YamlDotNet.dll
--- a/src/Misc/runnerdotnetruntimeassets
+++ b/src/Misc/runnerdotnetruntimeassets
@@ -1,263 +0,0 @@
-api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-console-l1-2-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
-api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
-api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
-clrcompression.dll
-clretwrc.dll
-clrjit.dll
-coreclr.dll
-createdump
-createdump.exe
-dbgshim.dll
-hostfxr.dll
-hostpolicy.dll
-libclrjit.dylib
-libclrjit.so
-libcoreclr.dylib
-libcoreclr.so
-libcoreclrtraceptprovider.so
-libdbgshim.dylib
-libdbgshim.so
-libhostfxr.dylib
-libhostfxr.so
-libhostpolicy.dylib
-libhostpolicy.so
-libmscordaccore.dylib
-libmscordaccore.so
-libmscordbi.dylib
-libmscordbi.so
-Microsoft.CSharp.dll
-Microsoft.DiaSymReader.Native.amd64.dll
-Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll
-Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
-Microsoft.Win32.Primitives.dll
-Microsoft.Win32.Registry.dll
-mscordaccore.dll
-mscordaccore_amd64_amd64_6.0.21.52210.dll
-mscordbi.dll
-mscorlib.dll
-mscorrc.debug.dll
-mscorrc.dll
-msquic.dll
-netstandard.dll
-SOS_README.md
-System.AppContext.dll
-System.Buffers.dll
-System.Collections.Concurrent.dll
-System.Collections.dll
-System.Collections.Immutable.dll
-System.Collections.NonGeneric.dll
-System.Collections.Specialized.dll
-System.ComponentModel.Annotations.dll
-System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll
-System.ComponentModel.dll
-System.ComponentModel.EventBasedAsync.dll
-System.ComponentModel.Primitives.dll
-System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.dll
-System.Configuration.dll
-System.Console.dll
-System.Core.dll
-System.Data.Common.dll
-System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll
-System.Data.dll
-System.Diagnostics.Contracts.dll
-System.Diagnostics.Debug.dll
-System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll
-System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.dll
-System.Diagnostics.Process.dll
-System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.dll
-System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener.dll
-System.Diagnostics.Tools.dll
-System.Diagnostics.TraceSource.dll
-System.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll
-System.dll
-System.Drawing.dll
-System.Drawing.Primitives.dll
-System.Dynamic.Runtime.dll
-System.Formats.Asn1.dll
-System.Globalization.Calendars.dll
-System.Globalization.dll
-System.Globalization.Extensions.dll
-System.Globalization.Native.dylib
-System.Globalization.Native.so
-System.IO.Compression.Brotli.dll
-System.IO.Compression.dll
-System.IO.Compression.FileSystem.dll
-System.IO.Compression.Native.a
-System.IO.Compression.Native.dll
-System.IO.Compression.Native.dylib
-System.IO.Compression.Native.so
-System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.dll
-System.IO.dll
-System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl.dll
-System.IO.FileSystem.dll
-System.IO.FileSystem.DriveInfo.dll
-System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives.dll
-System.IO.FileSystem.Watcher.dll
-System.IO.IsolatedStorage.dll
-System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.dll
-System.IO.Pipes.AccessControl.dll
-System.IO.Pipes.dll
-System.IO.UnmanagedMemoryStream.dll
-System.Linq.dll
-System.Linq.Expressions.dll
-System.Linq.Parallel.dll
-System.Linq.Queryable.dll
-System.Memory.dll
-System.Native.a
-System.Native.dylib
-System.Native.so
-System.Net.dll
-System.Net.Http.dll
-System.Net.Http.Json.dll
-System.Net.Http.Native.a
-System.Net.Http.Native.dylib
-System.Net.Http.Native.so
-System.Net.HttpListener.dll
-System.Net.Mail.dll
-System.Net.NameResolution.dll
-System.Net.NetworkInformation.dll
-System.Net.Ping.dll
-System.Net.Primitives.dll
-System.Net.Quic.dll
-System.Net.Requests.dll
-System.Net.Security.dll
-System.Net.Security.Native.a
-System.Net.Security.Native.dylib
-System.Net.Security.Native.so
-System.Net.ServicePoint.dll
-System.Net.Sockets.dll
-System.Net.WebClient.dll
-System.Net.WebHeaderCollection.dll
-System.Net.WebProxy.dll
-System.Net.WebSockets.Client.dll
-System.Net.WebSockets.dll
-System.Numerics.dll
-System.Numerics.Vectors.dll
-System.ObjectModel.dll
-System.Private.CoreLib.dll
-System.Private.DataContractSerialization.dll
-System.Private.Uri.dll
-System.Private.Xml.dll
-System.Private.Xml.Linq.dll
-System.Reflection.DispatchProxy.dll
-System.Reflection.dll
-System.Reflection.Emit.dll
-System.Reflection.Emit.ILGeneration.dll
-System.Reflection.Emit.Lightweight.dll
-System.Reflection.Extensions.dll
-System.Reflection.Metadata.dll
-System.Reflection.Primitives.dll
-System.Reflection.TypeExtensions.dll
-System.Resources.Reader.dll
-System.Resources.ResourceManager.dll
-System.Resources.Writer.dll
-System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll
-System.Runtime.CompilerServices.VisualC.dll
-System.Runtime.dll
-System.Runtime.Extensions.dll
-System.Runtime.Handles.dll
-System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll
-System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll
-System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime.dll
-System.Runtime.Intrinsics.dll
-System.Runtime.Loader.dll
-System.Runtime.Numerics.dll
-System.Runtime.Serialization.dll
-System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.dll
-System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.dll
-System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives.dll
-System.Runtime.Serialization.Xml.dll
-System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.dll
-System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.UI.Xaml.dll
-System.Security.AccessControl.dll
-System.Security.Claims.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Cng.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Csp.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Native.Apple.a
-System.Security.Cryptography.Native.Apple.dylib
-System.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.a
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-System.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.so
-System.Security.Cryptography.OpenSsl.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll
-System.Security.Cryptography.XCertificates.dll
-System.Security.dll
-System.Security.Principal.dll
-System.Security.Principal.Windows.dll
-System.Security.SecureString.dll
-System.ServiceModel.Web.dll
-System.ServiceProcess.dll
-System.Text.Encoding.CodePages.dll
-System.Text.Encoding.dll
-System.Text.Encoding.Extensions.dll
-System.Text.Encodings.Web.dll
-System.Text.Json.dll
-System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll
-System.Threading.Channels.dll
-System.Threading.dll
-System.Threading.Overlapped.dll
-System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll
-System.Threading.Tasks.dll
-System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll
-System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.dll
-System.Threading.Thread.dll
-System.Threading.ThreadPool.dll
-System.Threading.Timer.dll
-System.Transactions.dll
-System.Transactions.Local.dll
-System.ValueTuple.dll
-System.Web.dll
-System.Web.HttpUtility.dll
-System.Windows.dll
-System.Xml.dll
-System.Xml.Linq.dll
-System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll
-System.Xml.Serialization.dll
-System.Xml.XDocument.dll
-System.Xml.XmlDocument.dll
-System.Xml.XmlSerializer.dll
-System.Xml.XPath.dll
-System.Xml.XPath.XDocument.dll
-ucrtbase.dll
-WindowsBase.dll
--- a/src/Misc/trimmedpackages_targz.json
+++ b/src/Misc/trimmedpackages_targz.json
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_RUNTIME_EXTERNALS_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.tar.gz",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "dotnetRuntime": "<RUNTIME_HASH>",
-            "externals": "<EXTERNALS_HASH>"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_RUNTIME_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.tar.gz",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "dotnetRuntime": "<RUNTIME_HASH>"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_EXTERNALS_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.tar.gz",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "externals": "<EXTERNALS_HASH>"
-        }
-    }
-]
--- a/src/Misc/trimmedpackages_zip.json
+++ b/src/Misc/trimmedpackages_zip.json
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-[
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_RUNTIME_EXTERNALS_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime-noexternals.zip",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "dotnetRuntime": "<RUNTIME_HASH>",
-            "externals": "<EXTERNALS_HASH>"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_RUNTIME_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noruntime.zip",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "dotnetRuntime": "<RUNTIME_HASH>"
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "HashValue": "<NO_EXTERNALS_HASH>",
-        "DownloadUrl": "https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v<RUNNER_VERSION>/actions-runner-<RUNNER_PLATFORM>-<RUNNER_VERSION>-noexternals.zip",
-        "TrimmedContents": {
-            "externals": "<EXTERNALS_HASH>"
-        }
-    }
-]
--- a/src/Runner.Common/ConfigurationStore.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/ConfigurationStore.cs
@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false)]
        public string PoolName { get; set; }

-        [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false)]
-        public bool DisableUpdate { get; set; }
-
-        [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false)]
-        public bool Ephemeral { get; set; }
-
        [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false)]
        public string ServerUrl { get; set; }

--- a/src/Runner.Common/Constants.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/Constants.cs
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        Certificates,
        Options,
        SetupInfo,
-        Telemetry
    }

    public static class Constants
@@ -126,11 +125,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                {
                    public static readonly string Check = "check";
                    public static readonly string Commit = "commit";
-                    public static readonly string Ephemeral = "ephemeral";
                    public static readonly string Help = "help";
                    public static readonly string Replace = "replace";
-                    public static readonly string DisableUpdate = "disableupdate";
-                    public static readonly string Once = "once"; // Keep this around since customers still relies on it
+                    public static readonly string Once = "once";
                    public static readonly string RunAsService = "runasservice";
                    public static readonly string Unattended = "unattended";
                    public static readonly string Version = "version";
@@ -156,7 +153,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            public static readonly string LowDiskSpace = "LOW_DISK_SPACE";
            public static readonly string UnsupportedCommand = "UNSUPPORTED_COMMAND";
            public static readonly string UnsupportedCommandMessageDisabled = "The `{0}` command is disabled. Please upgrade to using Environment Files or opt into unsecure command execution by setting the `ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS` environment variable to `true`. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-github-actions-deprecating-set-env-and-add-path-commands/";
-            public static readonly string UnsupportedStopCommandTokenDisabled = "You cannot use a endToken that is an empty string, the string 'pause-logging', or another workflow command. For more information see:  https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-commands-for-github-actions#example-stopping-and-starting-workflow-commands or opt into insecure command execution by setting the `ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_STOPCOMMAND_TOKENS` environment variable to `true`.";
        }

        public static class RunnerEvent
@@ -216,7 +212,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                // Keep alphabetical
                //
                public static readonly string AllowUnsupportedCommands = "ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS";
-                public static readonly string AllowUnsupportedStopCommandTokens = "ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_STOPCOMMAND_TOKENS";
                public static readonly string RunnerDebug = "ACTIONS_RUNNER_DEBUG";
                public static readonly string StepDebug = "ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG";
            }
--- a/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/HostContext.cs
@@ -90,22 +90,20 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.UriDataEscape);
            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.XmlDataEscape);
            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.TrimDoubleQuotes);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.PowerShellPreAmpersandEscape);
-            this.SecretMasker.AddValueEncoder(ValueEncoders.PowerShellPostAmpersandEscape);

            // Create the trace manager.
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(logFile))
            {
                int logPageSize;
                string logSizeEnv = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable($"{hostType.ToUpperInvariant()}_LOGSIZE");
-                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(logSizeEnv) || !int.TryParse(logSizeEnv, out logPageSize))
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(logSizeEnv) || !int.TryParse(logSizeEnv, out logPageSize))
                {
                    logPageSize = _defaultLogPageSize;
                }

                int logRetentionDays;
                string logRetentionDaysEnv = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable($"{hostType.ToUpperInvariant()}_LOGRETENTION");
-                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(logRetentionDaysEnv) || !int.TryParse(logRetentionDaysEnv, out logRetentionDays))
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(logRetentionDaysEnv) || !int.TryParse(logRetentionDaysEnv, out logRetentionDays))
                {
                    logRetentionDays = _defaultLogRetentionDays;
                }
@@ -193,11 +191,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                _trace.Info($"No proxy settings were found based on environmental variables (http_proxy/https_proxy/HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY)");
            }

-            if (StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_TLS_NO_VERIFY")))
-            {
-                _trace.Warning($"Runner is running under insecure mode: HTTPS server certifcate validation has been turned off by GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_TLS_NO_VERIFY environment variable.");
-            }
-
            var credFile = GetConfigFile(WellKnownConfigFile.Credentials);
            if (File.Exists(credFile))
            {
@@ -205,17 +198,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                if (credData != null &&
                    credData.Data.TryGetValue("clientId", out var clientId))
                {
-                    _userAgents.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("ClientId", clientId));
+                    _userAgents.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue($"RunnerId", clientId));
                }
            }
-
-            var runnerFile = GetConfigFile(WellKnownConfigFile.Runner);
-            if (File.Exists(runnerFile))
-            {
-                var runnerSettings = IOUtil.LoadObject<RunnerSettings>(runnerFile);
-                _userAgents.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("RunnerId", runnerSettings.AgentId.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)));
-                _userAgents.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("GroupId", runnerSettings.PoolId.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)));
-            }
        }

        public string GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory directory)
@@ -356,12 +341,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                        ".setup_info");
                    break;

-                case WellKnownConfigFile.Telemetry:
-                    path = Path.Combine(
-                        GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Diag),
-                        ".telemetry");
-                    break;
-
                default:
                    throw new NotSupportedException($"Unexpected well known config file: '{configFile}'");
            }
--- a/src/Runner.Common/HttpClientHandlerFactory.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/HttpClientHandlerFactory.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-using System;
 using System.Net.Http;
 using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;

@@ -14,14 +13,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
    {
        public HttpClientHandler CreateClientHandler(RunnerWebProxy webProxy)
        {
-            var client = new HttpClientHandler() { Proxy = webProxy };
-
-            if (StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_TLS_NO_VERIFY")))
-            {
-                client.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback = HttpClientHandler.DangerousAcceptAnyServerCertificateValidator;
-            }
-
-            return client;
+            return new HttpClientHandler() { Proxy = webProxy };
        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Common/JobServer.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/JobServer.cs
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
-using System.Net.Http;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
-using GitHub.Services.Common;
 using GitHub.Services.WebApi;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
@@ -38,11 +35,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        public async Task ConnectAsync(VssConnection jobConnection)
        {
            _connection = jobConnection;
-            int totalAttempts = 5;
-            int attemptCount = totalAttempts;
-            var configurationStore = HostContext.GetService<IConfigurationStore>();
-            var runnerSettings = configurationStore.GetSettings();
- 
+            int attemptCount = 5;
            while (!_connection.HasAuthenticated && attemptCount-- > 0)
            {
                try
@@ -52,71 +45,17 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                }
                catch (Exception ex) when (attemptCount > 0)
                {
-                    Trace.Info($"Catch exception during connect. {attemptCount} attempts left.");
+                    Trace.Info($"Catch exception during connect. {attemptCount} attemp left.");
                    Trace.Error(ex);
-
-                    if (runnerSettings.IsHostedServer)
-                    {
-                        await CheckNetworkEndpointsAsync(attemptCount);
-                    }
                }

-                int attempt = totalAttempts - attemptCount;
-                TimeSpan backoff = BackoffTimerHelper.GetExponentialBackoff(attempt, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3.2), TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));
-
-                await Task.Delay(backoff);
+                await Task.Delay(100);
            }

            _taskClient = _connection.GetClient<TaskHttpClient>();
            _hasConnection = true;
        }

-        private async Task CheckNetworkEndpointsAsync(int attemptsLeft)
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info("Requesting Actions Service health endpoint status");
-                using (var httpClientHandler = HostContext.CreateHttpClientHandler())
-                using (var actionsClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler))
-                {
-                    var baseUri = new Uri(_connection.Uri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority));
-
-                    actionsClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.AddRange(HostContext.UserAgents);
-
-                    // Call the _apis/health endpoint, and include how many attempts are left as a URL query for easy tracking
-                    var response = await actionsClient.GetAsync(new Uri(baseUri, $"_apis/health?_internalRunnerAttemptsLeft={attemptsLeft}"));
-                    Trace.Info($"Actions health status code: {response.StatusCode}");
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                // Log error, but continue as this call is best-effort
-                Trace.Info($"Actions Service health endpoint failed due to {ex.GetType().Name}");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info("Requesting Github API endpoint status");
-                // This is a dotcom public API... just call it directly
-                using (var httpClientHandler = HostContext.CreateHttpClientHandler())
-                using (var gitHubClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler))
-                {
-                    gitHubClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.AddRange(HostContext.UserAgents);
-
-                    // Call the api.github.com endpoint, and include how many attempts are left as a URL query for easy tracking
-                    var response = await gitHubClient.GetAsync($"https://api.github.com?_internalRunnerAttemptsLeft={attemptsLeft}");
-                    Trace.Info($"api.github.com status code: {response.StatusCode}");
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                // Log error, but continue as this call is best-effort
-                Trace.Info($"Github API endpoint failed due to {ex.GetType().Name}");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-        }
-
        private void CheckConnection()
        {
            if (!_hasConnection)
--- a/src/Runner.Common/JobServerQueue.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/JobServerQueue.cs
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
+using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
-using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
 using Pipelines = GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines;
+using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
 {
    [ServiceLocator(Default = typeof(JobServerQueue))]
    public interface IJobServerQueue : IRunnerService, IThrottlingReporter
    {
-        TaskCompletionSource<int> JobRecordUpdated { get; }
        event EventHandler<ThrottlingEventArgs> JobServerQueueThrottling;
        Task ShutdownAsync();
        void Start(Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage jobRequest);
@@ -62,11 +62,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        private IJobServer _jobServer;
        private Task[] _allDequeueTasks;
        private readonly TaskCompletionSource<int> _jobCompletionSource = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
-        private readonly TaskCompletionSource<int> _jobRecordUpdated = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
        private bool _queueInProcess = false;

-        public TaskCompletionSource<int> JobRecordUpdated => _jobRecordUpdated;
-
        public event EventHandler<ThrottlingEventArgs> JobServerQueueThrottling;

        // Web console dequeue will start with process queue every 250ms for the first 60*4 times (~60 seconds).
@@ -75,7 +72,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        // at the same time we can cut the load to server after the build run for more than 60s
        private int _webConsoleLineAggressiveDequeueCount = 0;
        private const int _webConsoleLineAggressiveDequeueLimit = 4 * 60;
-        private const int _webConsoleLineQueueSizeLimit = 1024;
        private bool _webConsoleLineAggressiveDequeue = true;
        private bool _firstConsoleOutputs = true;

@@ -160,22 +156,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        }

        public void QueueWebConsoleLine(Guid stepRecordId, string line, long? lineNumber)
-        {
-            // We only process 500 lines of the queue everytime.
-            // If the queue is backing up due to slow Http request or flood of output from step,
-            // we will drop the output to avoid extra memory consumption from the runner since the live console feed is best effort.
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(line) && _webConsoleLineQueue.Count < _webConsoleLineQueueSizeLimit)
        {
            Trace.Verbose("Enqueue web console line queue: {0}", line);
-                if (line.Length > 1024)
-                {
-                    Trace.Verbose("Web console line is more than 1024 chars, truncate to first 1024 chars");
-                    line = $"{line.Substring(0, 1024)}...";
-                }
-
            _webConsoleLineQueue.Enqueue(new ConsoleLineInfo(stepRecordId, line, lineNumber));
        }
-        }

        public void QueueFileUpload(Guid timelineId, Guid timelineRecordId, string type, string name, string path, bool deleteSource)
        {
@@ -242,6 +226,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                        stepRecordIds.Add(lineInfo.StepRecordId);
                    }

+                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(lineInfo.Line) && lineInfo.Line.Length > 1024)
+                    {
+                        Trace.Verbose("Web console line is more than 1024 chars, truncate to first 1024 chars");
+                        lineInfo.Line = $"{lineInfo.Line.Substring(0, 1024)}...";
+                    }
+
                    stepsConsoleLines[lineInfo.StepRecordId].Add(new TimelineRecordLogLine(lineInfo.Line, lineInfo.LineNumber));
                    linesCounter++;

@@ -465,14 +455,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
                            {
                                Trace.Verbose("Cleanup buffered timeline record for timeline: {0}.", update.TimelineId);
                            }
-
-                            if (!_jobRecordUpdated.Task.IsCompleted &&
-                                update.PendingRecords.Any(x => x.Id == _jobTimelineRecordId && x.State != null))
-                            {
-                                // We have changed the state of the job
-                                Trace.Info("Job timeline record has been updated for the first time.");
-                                _jobRecordUpdated.TrySetResult(0);
-                            }
                        }
                        catch (Exception ex)
                        {
--- a/src/Runner.Common/Runner.Common.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/Runner.Common.csproj
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Common/RunnerServer.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/RunnerServer.cs
@@ -29,10 +29,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        // Configuration
        Task<TaskAgent> AddAgentAsync(Int32 agentPoolId, TaskAgent agent);
        Task DeleteAgentAsync(int agentPoolId, int agentId);
-        Task DeleteAgentAsync(int agentId);
        Task<List<TaskAgentPool>> GetAgentPoolsAsync(string agentPoolName = null, TaskAgentPoolType poolType = TaskAgentPoolType.Automation);
        Task<List<TaskAgent>> GetAgentsAsync(int agentPoolId, string agentName = null);
-        Task<List<TaskAgent>> GetAgentsAsync(string agentName);
        Task<TaskAgent> ReplaceAgentAsync(int agentPoolId, TaskAgent agent);

        // messagequeue
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
        Task<PackageMetadata> GetPackageAsync(string packageType, string platform, string version, bool includeToken, CancellationToken cancellationToken);

        // agent update
-        Task<TaskAgent> UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(int agentPoolId, int agentId, string currentState, string trace);
+        Task<TaskAgent> UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(int agentPoolId, int agentId, string currentState);
    }

    public sealed class RunnerServer : RunnerService, IRunnerServer
@@ -254,11 +252,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            return _genericTaskAgentClient.GetAgentsAsync(agentPoolId, agentName, false);
        }

-        public Task<List<TaskAgent>> GetAgentsAsync(string agentName)
-        {
-            return GetAgentsAsync(0, agentName); // search in all all agentPools
-        }
-
        public Task<TaskAgent> ReplaceAgentAsync(int agentPoolId, TaskAgent agent)
        {
            CheckConnection(RunnerConnectionType.Generic);
@@ -271,11 +264,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            return _genericTaskAgentClient.DeleteAgentAsync(agentPoolId, agentId);
        }

-        public Task DeleteAgentAsync(int agentId)
-        {
-            return DeleteAgentAsync(0, agentId); // agentPool is ignored server side
-        }
-
        //-----------------------------------------------------------------
        // MessageQueue
        //-----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -341,10 +329,25 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            return _genericTaskAgentClient.GetPackageAsync(packageType, platform, version, includeToken, cancellationToken: cancellationToken);
        }

-        public Task<TaskAgent> UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(int agentPoolId, int agentId, string currentState, string trace)
+        public Task<TaskAgent> UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(int agentPoolId, int agentId, string currentState)
        {
            CheckConnection(RunnerConnectionType.Generic);
-            return _genericTaskAgentClient.UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(agentPoolId, agentId, currentState, trace);
+            return _genericTaskAgentClient.UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(agentPoolId, agentId, currentState);
+        }
+
+        //-----------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Runner Auth Url
+        //-----------------------------------------------------------------
+        public Task<string> GetRunnerAuthUrlAsync(int runnerPoolId, int runnerId)
+        {
+            CheckConnection(RunnerConnectionType.MessageQueue);
+            return _messageTaskAgentClient.GetAgentAuthUrlAsync(runnerPoolId, runnerId);
+        }
+
+        public Task ReportRunnerAuthUrlErrorAsync(int runnerPoolId, int runnerId, string error)
+        {
+            CheckConnection(RunnerConnectionType.MessageQueue);
+            return _messageTaskAgentClient.ReportAgentAuthUrlMigrationErrorAsync(runnerPoolId, runnerId, error);
        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Common/Terminal.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Common/Terminal.cs
@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            if (!Silent)
            {
                Console.WriteLine();
-                Console.ResetColor();
+                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
                Console.WriteLine($"# {message}");
+                Console.ResetColor();
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }
@@ -176,8 +177,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Common
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                Console.Write("√ ");
-                Console.ResetColor();
+                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
                Console.WriteLine(message);
+                Console.ResetColor();
            }
        }

--- a/src/Runner.Listener/CommandSettings.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/CommandSettings.cs
@@ -29,12 +29,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
        {
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Check,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Commit,
-            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.DisableUpdate,
-            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Ephemeral,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Help,
-            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Once,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Replace,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.RunAsService,
+            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Once,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Unattended,
            Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Version
        };
@@ -68,10 +66,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
        public bool Help => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Help);
        public bool Unattended => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Unattended);
        public bool Version => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Version);
-        public bool Ephemeral => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Ephemeral);
-        public bool DisableUpdate => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.DisableUpdate);

-        // Keep this around since customers still relies on it
        public bool RunOnce => TestFlag(Constants.Runner.CommandLine.Flags.Once);

        // Constructor.
@@ -245,7 +240,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                validator: Validators.ServerUrlValidator);
        }

-#if OS_WINDOWS
        public string GetWindowsLogonAccount(string defaultValue, string descriptionMsg)
        {
            return GetArgOrPrompt(
@@ -263,7 +257,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                defaultValue: string.Empty,
                validator: Validators.NonEmptyValidator);
        }
-#endif
+
        public string GetWork()
        {
            return GetArgOrPrompt(
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/ConfigurationManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/ConfigurationManager.cs
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
        bool IsConfigured();
        Task ConfigureAsync(CommandSettings command);
        Task UnconfigureAsync(CommandSettings command);
-        void DeleteLocalRunnerConfig();
        RunnerSettings LoadSettings();
    }

@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            Trace.Info(nameof(LoadSettings));
            if (!IsConfigured())
            {
-                throw new NonRetryableException("Not configured. Run config.(sh/cmd) to configure the runner.");
+                throw new InvalidOperationException("Not configured. Run config.(sh/cmd) to configure the runner.");
            }

            RunnerSettings settings = _store.GetSettings();
@@ -66,18 +65,18 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
        public async Task ConfigureAsync(CommandSettings command)
        {
            _term.WriteLine();
-            _term.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
-            _term.WriteLine("|        ____ _ _   _   _       _          _        _   _                      |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|       / ___(_) |_| | | |_   _| |__      / \\   ___| |_(_) ___  _ __  ___      |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|      | |  _| | __| |_| | | | | '_ \\    / _ \\ / __| __| |/ _ \\| '_ \\/ __|     |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|      | |_| | | |_|  _  | |_| | |_) |  / ___ \\ (__| |_| | (_) | | | \\__ \\     |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|       \\____|_|\\__|_| |_|\\__,_|_.__/  /_/   \\_\\___|\\__|_|\\___/|_| |_|___/     |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|                                                                              |");
-            _term.Write("|                       ");
+            _term.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|        ____ _ _   _   _       _          _        _   _                      |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|       / ___(_) |_| | | |_   _| |__      / \\   ___| |_(_) ___  _ __  ___      |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|      | |  _| | __| |_| | | | | '_ \\    / _ \\ / __| __| |/ _ \\| '_ \\/ __|     |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|      | |_| | | |_|  _  | |_| | |_) |  / ___ \\ (__| |_| | (_) | | | \\__ \\     |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|       \\____|_|\\__|_| |_|\\__,_|_.__/  /_/   \\_\\___|\\__|_|\\___/|_| |_|___/     |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|                                                                              |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.Write("|                       ", ConsoleColor.White);
            _term.Write("Self-hosted runner registration", ConsoleColor.Cyan);
-            _term.WriteLine("                        |");
-            _term.WriteLine("|                                                                              |");
-            _term.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
+            _term.WriteLine("                        |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("|                                                                              |", ConsoleColor.White);
+            _term.WriteLine("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------", ConsoleColor.White);

            Trace.Info(nameof(ConfigureAsync));
            if (IsConfigured())
@@ -118,7 +117,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                try
                {
                    // Determine the service deployment type based on connection data. (Hosted/OnPremises)
-                    // Hosted usually means github.com or localhost, while OnPremises means GHES or GHAE
                    runnerSettings.IsHostedServer = runnerSettings.GitHubUrl == null || UrlUtil.IsHostedServer(new UriBuilder(runnerSettings.GitHubUrl));

                    // Warn if the Actions server url and GHES server url has different Host
@@ -196,8 +194,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            TaskAgent agent;
            while (true)
            {
-                runnerSettings.DisableUpdate = command.DisableUpdate;
-                runnerSettings.Ephemeral = command.Ephemeral;
                runnerSettings.AgentName = command.GetRunnerName();

                _term.WriteLine();
@@ -214,22 +210,11 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                    if (command.GetReplace())
                    {
                        // Update existing agent with new PublicKey, agent version.
-                        agent = UpdateExistingAgent(agent, publicKey, userLabels, runnerSettings.Ephemeral, command.DisableUpdate);
+                        agent = UpdateExistingAgent(agent, publicKey, userLabels);

                        try
                        {
                            agent = await _runnerServer.ReplaceAgentAsync(runnerSettings.PoolId, agent);
-                            if (command.DisableUpdate &&
-                                command.DisableUpdate != agent.DisableUpdate)
-                            {
-                                throw new NotSupportedException("The GitHub server does not support configuring a self-hosted runner with 'DisableUpdate' flag.");
-                            }
-                            if (command.Ephemeral &&
-                                command.Ephemeral != agent.Ephemeral)
-                            {
-                                throw new NotSupportedException("The GitHub server does not support configuring a self-hosted runner with 'Ephemeral' flag.");
-                            }
-
                            _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Successfully replaced the runner");
                            break;
                        }
@@ -248,22 +233,11 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                else
                {
                    // Create a new agent.
-                    agent = CreateNewAgent(runnerSettings.AgentName, publicKey, userLabels, runnerSettings.Ephemeral, command.DisableUpdate);
+                    agent = CreateNewAgent(runnerSettings.AgentName, publicKey, userLabels);

                    try
                    {
                        agent = await _runnerServer.AddAgentAsync(runnerSettings.PoolId, agent);
-                        if (command.DisableUpdate &&
-                            command.DisableUpdate != agent.DisableUpdate)
-                        {
-                            throw new NotSupportedException("The GitHub server does not support configuring a self-hosted runner with 'DisableUpdate' flag.");
-                        }
-                        if (command.Ephemeral &&
-                            command.Ephemeral != agent.Ephemeral)
-                        {
-                            throw new NotSupportedException("The GitHub server does not support configuring a self-hosted runner with 'Ephemeral' flag.");
-                        }
-
                        _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Runner successfully added");
                        break;
                    }
@@ -353,38 +327,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
 #endif
        }

-        // Delete .runner and .credentials files
-        public void DeleteLocalRunnerConfig()
-        {
-            bool isConfigured = _store.IsConfigured();
-            bool hasCredentials = _store.HasCredentials();
-            //delete credential config files
-            var currentAction = "Removing .credentials";
-            if (hasCredentials)
-            {
-                _store.DeleteCredential();
-                var keyManager = HostContext.GetService<IRSAKeyManager>();
-                keyManager.DeleteKey();
-                _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Removed .credentials");
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                _term.WriteLine("Does not exist. Skipping " + currentAction);
-            }
-
-            //delete settings config file
-            currentAction = "Removing .runner";
-            if (isConfigured)
-            {
-                _store.DeleteSettings();
-                _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Removed .runner");
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                _term.WriteLine("Does not exist. Skipping " + currentAction);
-            }
-        }
-
        public async Task UnconfigureAsync(CommandSettings command)
        {
            string currentAction = string.Empty;
@@ -404,9 +346,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration

                    _term.WriteLine();
                    _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Runner service removed");
-#else
-                    // unconfig systemd or osx service first
-                    throw new Exception("Uninstall service first");
+#elif OS_LINUX
+                    // unconfig system D service first
+                    throw new Exception("Unconfigure service first");
+#elif OS_OSX
+                    // unconfig osx service first
+                    throw new Exception("Unconfigure service first");
 #endif
                }

@@ -438,7 +383,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                    // Determine the service deployment type based on connection data. (Hosted/OnPremises)
                    await _runnerServer.ConnectAsync(new Uri(settings.ServerUrl), creds);

-                    var agents = await _runnerServer.GetAgentsAsync(settings.AgentName);
+                    var agents = await _runnerServer.GetAgentsAsync(settings.PoolId, settings.AgentName);
                    Trace.Verbose("Returns {0} agents", agents.Count);
                    TaskAgent agent = agents.FirstOrDefault();
                    if (agent == null)
@@ -447,7 +392,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                    }
                    else
                    {
-                        await _runnerServer.DeleteAgentAsync(settings.AgentId);
+                        await _runnerServer.DeleteAgentAsync(settings.PoolId, settings.AgentId);

                        _term.WriteLine();
                        _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Runner removed successfully");
@@ -458,7 +403,31 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                    _term.WriteLine("Cannot connect to server, because config files are missing. Skipping removing runner from the server.");
                }

-                DeleteLocalRunnerConfig();
+                //delete credential config files
+                currentAction = "Removing .credentials";
+                if (hasCredentials)
+                {
+                    _store.DeleteCredential();
+                    var keyManager = HostContext.GetService<IRSAKeyManager>();
+                    keyManager.DeleteKey();
+                    _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Removed .credentials");
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    _term.WriteLine("Does not exist. Skipping " + currentAction);
+                }
+
+                //delete settings config file
+                currentAction = "Removing .runner";
+                if (isConfigured)
+                {
+                    _store.DeleteSettings();
+                    _term.WriteSuccessMessage("Removed .runner");
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    _term.WriteLine("Does not exist. Skipping " + currentAction);
+                }
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
@@ -489,7 +458,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
        }


-        private TaskAgent UpdateExistingAgent(TaskAgent agent, RSAParameters publicKey, ISet<string> userLabels, bool ephemeral, bool disableUpdate)
+        private TaskAgent UpdateExistingAgent(TaskAgent agent, RSAParameters publicKey, ISet<string> userLabels)
        {
            ArgUtil.NotNull(agent, nameof(agent));
            agent.Authorization = new TaskAgentAuthorization
@@ -500,9 +469,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            // update should replace the existing labels
            agent.Version = BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.Version;
            agent.OSDescription = RuntimeInformation.OSDescription;
-            agent.Ephemeral = ephemeral;
-            agent.DisableUpdate = disableUpdate;
-            agent.MaxParallelism = 1;

            agent.Labels.Clear();

@@ -518,7 +484,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            return agent;
        }

-        private TaskAgent CreateNewAgent(string agentName, RSAParameters publicKey, ISet<string> userLabels, bool ephemeral, bool disableUpdate)
+        private TaskAgent CreateNewAgent(string agentName, RSAParameters publicKey, ISet<string> userLabels)
        {
            TaskAgent agent = new TaskAgent(agentName)
            {
@@ -529,8 +495,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
                MaxParallelism = 1,
                Version = BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.Version,
                OSDescription = RuntimeInformation.OSDescription,
-                Ephemeral = ephemeral,
-                DisableUpdate = disableUpdate
            };

            agent.Labels.Add(new AgentLabel("self-hosted", LabelType.System));
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/NativeWindowsServiceHelper.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #if OS_WINDOWS
-#pragma warning disable CA1416
 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
@@ -142,7 +141,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            Trace.Entering();
            LocalGroupInfo groupInfo = new LocalGroupInfo();
            groupInfo.Name = groupName;
-            groupInfo.Comment = StringUtil.Format("Built-in group used by GitHub Actions Runner.");
+            groupInfo.Comment = StringUtil.Format("Built-in group used by Team Foundation Server.");

            int returnCode = NetLocalGroupAdd(null,               // computer name
                                              1,                  // 1 means include comment 
@@ -1328,5 +1327,4 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
        public IntPtr hProfile;
    }
 }
-#pragma warning restore CA1416
 #endif
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/PromptManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/PromptManager.cs
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            while (true)
            {
                // Write the message prompt.
-                _terminal.Write($"{description} ");
+                _terminal.Write($"{description} ", ConsoleColor.White);

                if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(defaultValue))
                {
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/Validators.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/Validators.cs
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
            return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(value);
        }

-#if OS_WINDOWS
-#pragma warning disable CA1416
        public static bool NTAccountValidator(string arg)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(arg) || String.IsNullOrEmpty(arg.TrimStart('.', '\\')))
@@ -89,7 +87,5 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration

            return true;
        }
-#pragma warning restore CA1416
-#endif
    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/WindowsServiceControlManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Configuration/WindowsServiceControlManager.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #if OS_WINDOWS
-#pragma warning disable CA1416
 using System;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
@@ -170,5 +169,4 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener.Configuration
        }
    }
 }
-#pragma warning restore CA1416
 #endif
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/JobDispatcher.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/JobDispatcher.cs
@@ -2,19 +2,17 @@ using System;
 using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
-using GitHub.Runner.Common;
 using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
-using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
-using GitHub.Services.Common;
 using GitHub.Services.WebApi;
-using GitHub.Services.WebApi.Jwt;
 using Pipelines = GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines;
+using System.Linq;
+using GitHub.Services.Common;
+using GitHub.Runner.Common;
+using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
+using GitHub.Services.WebApi.Jwt;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
 {
@@ -36,13 +34,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
    // and the server will not send another job while this one is still running.
    public sealed class JobDispatcher : RunnerService, IJobDispatcher
    {
-        private static Regex _invalidJsonRegex = new Regex(@"invalid\ Json\ at\ position\ '(\d+)':", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        private readonly Lazy<Dictionary<long, TaskResult>> _localRunJobResult = new Lazy<Dictionary<long, TaskResult>>();
        private int _poolId;
-
-        IConfigurationStore _configurationStore;
-
-        RunnerSettings _runnerSettings;
+        RunnerSettings _runnerSetting;
        private static readonly string _workerProcessName = $"Runner.Worker{IOUtil.ExeExtension}";

        // this is not thread-safe
@@ -60,9 +54,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            base.Initialize(hostContext);

            // get pool id from config
-            _configurationStore = hostContext.GetService<IConfigurationStore>();
-            _runnerSettings = _configurationStore.GetSettings();
-            _poolId = _runnerSettings.PoolId;
+            var configurationStore = hostContext.GetService<IConfigurationStore>();
+            _runnerSetting = configurationStore.GetSettings();
+            _poolId = _runnerSetting.PoolId;

            int channelTimeoutSeconds;
            if (!int.TryParse(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_CHANNEL_TIMEOUT") ?? string.Empty, out channelTimeoutSeconds))
@@ -513,20 +507,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                {
                                    detailInfo = string.Join(Environment.NewLine, workerOutput);
                                    Trace.Info($"Return code {returnCode} indicate worker encounter an unhandled exception or app crash, attach worker stdout/stderr to JobRequest result.");
-
-                                    var jobServer = HostContext.GetService<IJobServer>();
-                                    VssCredentials jobServerCredential = VssUtil.GetVssCredential(systemConnection);
-                                    VssConnection jobConnection = VssUtil.CreateConnection(systemConnection.Url, jobServerCredential);
-                                    await jobServer.ConnectAsync(jobConnection);
-
-                                    await LogWorkerProcessUnhandledException(jobServer, message, detailInfo);
-
-                                    // Go ahead to finish the job with result 'Failed' if the STDERR from worker is System.IO.IOException, since it typically means we are running out of disk space.
-                                    if (detailInfo.Contains(typeof(System.IO.IOException).ToString(), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
-                                    {
-                                        Trace.Info($"Finish job with result 'Failed' due to IOException.");
-                                        await ForceFailJob(jobServer, message);
-                                    }
+                                    await LogWorkerProcessUnhandledException(message, detailInfo);
                                }

                                TaskResult result = TaskResultUtil.TranslateFromReturnCode(returnCode);
@@ -667,15 +648,13 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                try
                {
                    request = await runnerServer.RenewAgentRequestAsync(poolId, requestId, lockToken, orchestrationId, token);
+
                    Trace.Info($"Successfully renew job request {requestId}, job is valid till {request.LockedUntil.Value}");

                    if (!firstJobRequestRenewed.Task.IsCompleted)
                    {
                        // fire first renew succeed event.
                        firstJobRequestRenewed.TrySetResult(0);
-
-                        // Update settings if the runner name has been changed server-side
-                        UpdateAgentNameIfNeeded(request.ReservedAgent?.Name);
                    }

                    if (encounteringError > 0)
@@ -775,27 +754,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            }
        }

-        private void UpdateAgentNameIfNeeded(string agentName)
-        {
-            var isNewAgentName = !string.Equals(_runnerSettings.AgentName, agentName, StringComparison.Ordinal);
-            if (!isNewAgentName || string.IsNullOrEmpty(agentName))
-            {
-                return;
-            }
-
-            _runnerSettings.AgentName = agentName;
-            try
-            {
-                _configurationStore.SaveSettings(_runnerSettings);
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error("Cannot update the settings file:");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-
-        }
-
        // Best effort upload any logs for this job.
        private async Task TryUploadUnfinishedLogs(Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message)
        {
@@ -957,40 +915,53 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
        }

        // log an error issue to job level timeline record
-        private async Task LogWorkerProcessUnhandledException(IJobServer jobServer, Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message, string errorMessage)
+        private async Task LogWorkerProcessUnhandledException(Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message, string errorMessage)
        {
            try
            {
-                var timeline = await jobServer.GetTimelineAsync(message.Plan.ScopeIdentifier, message.Plan.PlanType, message.Plan.PlanId, message.Timeline.Id, CancellationToken.None);
-                ArgUtil.NotNull(timeline, nameof(timeline));
+                var systemConnection = message.Resources.Endpoints.SingleOrDefault(x => string.Equals(x.Name, WellKnownServiceEndpointNames.SystemVssConnection));
+                ArgUtil.NotNull(systemConnection, nameof(systemConnection));

+                var jobServer = HostContext.GetService<IJobServer>();
+                VssCredentials jobServerCredential = VssUtil.GetVssCredential(systemConnection);
+                VssConnection jobConnection = VssUtil.CreateConnection(systemConnection.Url, jobServerCredential);
+
+                /* Below is the legacy 'OnPremises' code that is currently unused by the runner
+                   ToDo: re-implement code as appropriate once GHES support is added.
+                // Make sure SystemConnection Url match Config Url base for OnPremises server	
+                if (!message.Variables.ContainsKey(Constants.Variables.System.ServerType) ||	
+                    string.Equals(message.Variables[Constants.Variables.System.ServerType]?.Value, "OnPremises", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))	
+                {	
+                    try	
+                    {	
+                        Uri result = null;	
+                        Uri configUri = new Uri(_runnerSetting.ServerUrl);	
+                        if (Uri.TryCreate(new Uri(configUri.GetComponents(UriComponents.SchemeAndServer, UriFormat.Unescaped)), jobServerUrl.PathAndQuery, out result))	
+                        {	
+                            //replace the schema and host portion of messageUri with the host from the	
+                            //server URI (which was set at config time)	
+                            jobServerUrl = result;	
+                        }	
+                    }	
+                    catch (InvalidOperationException ex)	
+                    {	
+                        //cannot parse the Uri - not a fatal error	
+                        Trace.Error(ex);	
+                    }	
+                    catch (UriFormatException ex)	
+                    {	
+                        //cannot parse the Uri - not a fatal error	
+                        Trace.Error(ex);	
+                    }	
+                } */
+
+                await jobServer.ConnectAsync(jobConnection);
+
+                var timeline = await jobServer.GetTimelineAsync(message.Plan.ScopeIdentifier, message.Plan.PlanType, message.Plan.PlanId, message.Timeline.Id, CancellationToken.None);
+
+                ArgUtil.NotNull(timeline, nameof(timeline));
                TimelineRecord jobRecord = timeline.Records.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id == message.JobId && x.RecordType == "Job");
                ArgUtil.NotNull(jobRecord, nameof(jobRecord));
-
-                try
-                {
-                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(errorMessage) &&
-                        message.Variables.TryGetValue("DistributedTask.EnableRunnerIPCDebug", out var enableRunnerIPCDebug) &&
-                        StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(enableRunnerIPCDebug.Value))
-                    {
-                        // the trace should be best effort and not affect any job result
-                        var match = _invalidJsonRegex.Match(errorMessage);
-                        if (match.Success &&
-                            match.Groups.Count == 2)
-                        {
-                            var jsonPosition = int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
-                            var serializedJobMessage = JsonUtility.ToString(message);
-                            var originalJson = serializedJobMessage.Substring(jsonPosition - 10, 20);
-                            errorMessage = $"Runner sent Json at position '{jsonPosition}': {originalJson} ({Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(originalJson))})\n{errorMessage}";
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (Exception ex)
-                {
-                    Trace.Error(ex);
-                    errorMessage = $"Fail to check json IPC error: {ex.Message}\n{errorMessage}";
-                }
-
                var unhandledExceptionIssue = new Issue() { Type = IssueType.Error, Message = errorMessage };
                unhandledExceptionIssue.Data[Constants.Runner.InternalTelemetryIssueDataKey] = Constants.Runner.WorkerCrash;
                jobRecord.ErrorCount++;
@@ -1004,21 +975,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            }
        }

-        // raise job completed event to fail the job.
-        private async Task ForceFailJob(IJobServer jobServer, Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message)
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                var jobCompletedEvent = new JobCompletedEvent(message.RequestId, message.JobId, TaskResult.Failed);
-                await jobServer.RaisePlanEventAsync<JobCompletedEvent>(message.Plan.ScopeIdentifier, message.Plan.PlanType, message.Plan.PlanId, jobCompletedEvent, CancellationToken.None);
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error("Fail to raise JobCompletedEvent back to service.");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-        }
-
        private class WorkerDispatcher : IDisposable
        {
            public long RequestId { get; }
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Runner.Listener.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Runner.Listener.csproj
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
-    <PredefinedCulturesOnly>false</PredefinedCulturesOnly>
-    <PublishReadyToRunComposite>true</PublishReadyToRunComposite>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
+    <PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
@@ -25,12 +26,6 @@
    <PackageReference Include="System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController" Version="4.4.0" />
  </ItemGroup>

-  <ItemGroup>
-    <EmbeddedResource Include="..\Misc\runnercoreassets">
-      <LogicalName>GitHub.Runner.Listener.runnercoreassets</LogicalName>
-    </EmbeddedResource>
-  </ItemGroup>
-
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' ">
    <DebugType>portable</DebugType>
  </PropertyGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/Runner.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/Runner.cs
@@ -233,14 +233,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                    Trace.Info($"Set runner startup type - {startType}");
                    HostContext.StartupType = startType;

-                    if (command.RunOnce)
-                    {
-                        _term.WriteLine("Warning: '--once' is going to be deprecated in the future, please consider using '--ephemeral' during runner registration.", ConsoleColor.Yellow);
-                        _term.WriteLine("https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/autoscaling-with-self-hosted-runners#using-ephemeral-runners-for-autoscaling", ConsoleColor.Yellow);
-                    }
-
                    // Run the runner interactively or as service
-                    return await RunAsync(settings, command.RunOnce || settings.Ephemeral);
+                    return await RunAsync(settings, command.RunOnce);
                }
                else
                {
@@ -312,15 +306,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                }

                HostContext.WritePerfCounter("SessionCreated");
-
-                _term.WriteLine($"Current runner version: '{BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.Version}'");
                _term.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow:u}: Listening for Jobs");

                IJobDispatcher jobDispatcher = null;
                CancellationTokenSource messageQueueLoopTokenSource = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(HostContext.RunnerShutdownToken);
-
-                // Should we try to cleanup ephemeral runners
-                bool runOnceJobCompleted = false;
                try
                {
                    var notification = HostContext.GetService<IJobNotification>();
@@ -382,7 +371,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                Task completeTask = await Task.WhenAny(getNextMessage, jobDispatcher.RunOnceJobCompleted.Task);
                                if (completeTask == jobDispatcher.RunOnceJobCompleted.Task)
                                {
-                                    runOnceJobCompleted = true;
                                    Trace.Info("Job has finished at backend, the runner will exit since it is running under onetime use mode.");
                                    Trace.Info("Stop message queue looping.");
                                    messageQueueLoopTokenSource.Cancel();
@@ -408,7 +396,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                    autoUpdateInProgress = true;
                                    var runnerUpdateMessage = JsonUtility.FromString<AgentRefreshMessage>(message.Body);
                                    var selfUpdater = HostContext.GetService<ISelfUpdater>();
-                                    selfUpdateTask = selfUpdater.SelfUpdate(runnerUpdateMessage, jobDispatcher, false, HostContext.RunnerShutdownToken);
+                                    selfUpdateTask = selfUpdater.SelfUpdate(runnerUpdateMessage, jobDispatcher, !runOnce && HostContext.StartupType != StartupType.Service, HostContext.RunnerShutdownToken);
                                    Trace.Info("Refresh message received, kick-off selfupdate background process.");
                                }
                                else
@@ -425,7 +413,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                }
                                else
                                {
-                                    Trace.Info($"Received job message of length {message.Body.Length} from service, with hash '{IOUtil.GetSha256Hash(message.Body)}'");
                                    var jobMessage = StringUtil.ConvertFromJson<Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage>(message.Body);
                                    jobDispatcher.Run(jobMessage, runOnce);
                                    if (runOnce)
@@ -479,24 +466,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                        await jobDispatcher.ShutdownAsync();
                    }

-                    try
-                    {
+                    //TODO: make sure we don't mask more important exception
                    await _listener.DeleteSessionAsync();
-                    }
-                    catch (Exception ex) when (runOnce)
-                    {
-                        // ignore exception during delete session for ephemeral runner since the runner might already be deleted from the server side
-                        // and the delete session call will ends up with 401.
-                        Trace.Info($"Ignore any exception during DeleteSession for an ephemeral runner. {ex}");
-                    }

                    messageQueueLoopTokenSource.Dispose();
-
-                    if (settings.Ephemeral && runOnceJobCompleted)
-                    {
-                        var configManager = HostContext.GetService<IConfigurationManager>();
-                        configManager.DeleteLocalRunnerConfig();
-                    }
                }
            }
            catch (TaskAgentAccessTokenExpiredException)
@@ -539,10 +512,7 @@ Config Options:
 --labels string        Extra labels in addition to the default: 'self-hosted,{Constants.Runner.Platform},{Constants.Runner.PlatformArchitecture}'
 --work string          Relative runner work directory (default {Constants.Path.WorkDirectory})
 --replace              Replace any existing runner with the same name (default false)
- --pat                  GitHub personal access token used for checking network connectivity when executing `.{separator}run.{ext} --check`
- --disableupdate        Disable self-hosted runner automatic update to the latest released version`
- --ephemeral            Configure the runner to only take one job and then let the service un-configure the runner after the job finishes (default false)");
-
+ --pat                  GitHub personal access token used for checking network connectivity when executing `.{separator}run.{ext} --check`");
 #if OS_WINDOWS
    _term.WriteLine($@" --runasservice   Run the runner as a service");
    _term.WriteLine($@" --windowslogonaccount string   Account to run the service as. Requires runasservice");
--- a/src/Runner.Listener/SelfUpdater.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Listener/SelfUpdater.cs
@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
+using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Concurrent;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Net.Http;
-using System.Reflection;
-using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using GitHub.Services.WebApi;
+using GitHub.Services.Common;
 using GitHub.Runner.Common;
 using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
-using GitHub.Services.Common;
-using GitHub.Services.WebApi;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
 {
@@ -29,19 +27,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
    {
        private static string _packageType = "agent";
        private static string _platform = BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.PackageName;
-        private static string _dotnetRuntime = "dotnetRuntime";
-        private static string _externals = "externals";
-        private readonly Dictionary<string, string> _contentHashes = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        private PackageMetadata _targetPackage;
        private ITerminal _terminal;
        private IRunnerServer _runnerServer;
        private int _poolId;
        private int _agentId;
-        private readonly ConcurrentQueue<string> _updateTrace = new ConcurrentQueue<string>();
-        private Task _cloneAndCalculateContentHashTask;
-        private string _dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory;
-        private string _externalsCloneDirectory;

        public bool Busy { get; private set; }

@@ -55,8 +46,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            var settings = configStore.GetSettings();
            _poolId = settings.PoolId;
            _agentId = settings.AgentId;
-            _dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory = Path.Combine(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Work), "__dotnet_runtime__");
-            _externalsCloneDirectory = Path.Combine(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Work), "__externals__");
        }

        public async Task<bool> SelfUpdate(AgentRefreshMessage updateMessage, IJobDispatcher jobDispatcher, bool restartInteractiveRunner, CancellationToken token)
@@ -64,15 +53,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            Busy = true;
            try
            {
-                var totalUpdateTime = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-
-                // Copy dotnet runtime and externals of current runner to a temp folder
-                // So we can re-use them with trimmed runner package, if possible.
-                // This process is best effort, if we can't use trimmed runner package, 
-                // we will just go with the full package.
-                var linkedTokenSource = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(token);
-                _cloneAndCalculateContentHashTask = CloneAndCalculateAssetsHash(_dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory, _externalsCloneDirectory, linkedTokenSource.Token);
-
                if (!await UpdateNeeded(updateMessage.TargetVersion, token))
                {
                    Trace.Info($"Can't find available update package.");
@@ -80,30 +60,11 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                }

                Trace.Info($"An update is available.");
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"RunnerPlatform: {_targetPackage.Platform}");

                // Print console line that warn user not shutdown runner.
                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync("Runner update in progress, do not shutdown runner.");
                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync($"Downloading {_targetPackage.Version} runner");

-                if (_targetPackage.TrimmedPackages?.Count > 0)
-                {
-                    // wait for cloning assets task to finish only if we have trimmed packages
-                    await _cloneAndCalculateContentHashTask;
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    linkedTokenSource.Cancel();
-                    try
-                    {
-                        await _cloneAndCalculateContentHashTask;
-                    }
-                    catch (Exception ex)
-                    {
-                        Trace.Info($"Ingore errors after cancelling cloning assets task: {ex}");
-                    }
-                }
-
                await DownloadLatestRunner(token);
                Trace.Info($"Download latest runner and unzip into runner root.");

@@ -113,23 +74,16 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                await jobDispatcher.WaitAsync(token);
                Trace.Info($"All running job has exited.");

-                // We need to keep runner backup around for macOS until we fixed https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/743
                // delete runner backup
-                var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
                DeletePreviousVersionRunnerBackup(token);
                Trace.Info($"Delete old version runner backup.");
-                stopWatch.Stop();
+
                // generate update script from template
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"DeleteRunnerBackupTime: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync("Generate and execute update script.");

                string updateScript = GenerateUpdateScript(restartInteractiveRunner);
                Trace.Info($"Generate update script into: {updateScript}");

-
-                // For L0, we will skip execute update script.
-                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("_GITHUB_ACTION_EXECUTE_UPDATE_SCRIPT")))
-                {
                // kick off update script
                Process invokeScript = new Process();
 #if OS_WINDOWS
@@ -141,23 +95,13 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
 #endif
                invokeScript.Start();
                Trace.Info($"Update script start running");
-                }

-                totalUpdateTime.Stop();
-
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"TotalUpdateTime: {totalUpdateTime.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync("Runner will exit shortly for update, should be back online within 10 seconds.");
+                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync("Runner will exit shortly for update, should back online within 10 seconds.");

                return true;
            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue(ex.ToString());
-                throw;
-            }
            finally
            {
-                await UpdateRunnerUpdateStateAsync("Runner update process finished.");
                Busy = false;
            }
        }
@@ -212,173 +156,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
            IOUtil.DeleteDirectory(latestRunnerDirectory, token);
            Directory.CreateDirectory(latestRunnerDirectory);

-            string archiveFile = null;
-            var packageDownloadUrl = _targetPackage.DownloadUrl;
-            var packageHashValue = _targetPackage.HashValue;
-            var runtimeTrimmed = false;
-            var externalsTrimmed = false;
-            var fallbackToFullPackage = false;
-
-            // Only try trimmed package if sever sends them and we have calculated hash value of the current runtime/externals.
-            if (_contentHashes.Count == 2 &&
-                _contentHashes.ContainsKey(_dotnetRuntime) &&
-                _contentHashes.ContainsKey(_externals) &&
-                _targetPackage.TrimmedPackages?.Count > 0)
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Current runner content hash: {StringUtil.ConvertToJson(_contentHashes)}");
-                Trace.Info($"Trimmed packages info from service: {StringUtil.ConvertToJson(_targetPackage.TrimmedPackages)}");
-                // Try to see whether we can use any size trimmed down package to speed up runner updates.
-                foreach (var trimmedPackage in _targetPackage.TrimmedPackages)
-                {
-                    if (trimmedPackage.TrimmedContents.Count == 2 &&
-                        trimmedPackage.TrimmedContents.TryGetValue(_dotnetRuntime, out var trimmedRuntimeHash) &&
-                        trimmedRuntimeHash == _contentHashes[_dotnetRuntime] &&
-                        trimmedPackage.TrimmedContents.TryGetValue(_externals, out var trimmedExternalsHash) &&
-                        trimmedExternalsHash == _contentHashes[_externals])
-                    {
-                        Trace.Info($"Use trimmed (runtime+externals) package '{trimmedPackage.DownloadUrl}' to update runner.");
-                        packageDownloadUrl = trimmedPackage.DownloadUrl;
-                        packageHashValue = trimmedPackage.HashValue;
-                        runtimeTrimmed = true;
-                        externalsTrimmed = true;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                    else if (trimmedPackage.TrimmedContents.Count == 1 &&
-                             trimmedPackage.TrimmedContents.TryGetValue(_externals, out trimmedExternalsHash) &&
-                             trimmedExternalsHash == _contentHashes[_externals])
-                    {
-                        Trace.Info($"Use trimmed (externals) package '{trimmedPackage.DownloadUrl}' to update runner.");
-                        packageDownloadUrl = trimmedPackage.DownloadUrl;
-                        packageHashValue = trimmedPackage.HashValue;
-                        externalsTrimmed = true;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        Trace.Info($"Can't use trimmed package from '{trimmedPackage.DownloadUrl}' since the current runner does not carry those trimmed content (Hash mismatch).");
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"DownloadUrl: {packageDownloadUrl}");
-            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"RuntimeTrimmed: {runtimeTrimmed}");
-            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"ExternalsTrimmed: {externalsTrimmed}");
-
-            try
-            {
-                archiveFile = await DownLoadRunner(latestRunnerDirectory, packageDownloadUrl, packageHashValue, token);
-
-                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(archiveFile))
-                {
-                    throw new TaskCanceledException($"Runner package '{packageDownloadUrl}' failed after {Constants.RunnerDownloadRetryMaxAttempts} download attempts");
-                }
-
-                await ValidateRunnerHash(archiveFile, packageHashValue);
-
-                await ExtractRunnerPackage(archiveFile, latestRunnerDirectory, token);
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex) when (runtimeTrimmed || externalsTrimmed)
-            {
-                // if anything failed when we use trimmed package (download/validatehase/extract), try again with the full runner package.
-                Trace.Error($"Fail to download latest runner using trimmed package: {ex}");
-                fallbackToFullPackage = true;
-            }
-            finally
-            {
-                try
-                {
-                    // delete .zip file
-                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(archiveFile) && File.Exists(archiveFile))
-                    {
-                        Trace.Verbose("Deleting latest runner package zip: {0}", archiveFile);
-                        IOUtil.DeleteFile(archiveFile);
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (Exception ex)
-                {
-                    //it is not critical if we fail to delete the .zip file
-                    Trace.Warning("Failed to delete runner package zip '{0}'. Exception: {1}", archiveFile, ex);
-                }
-            }
-
-            var trimmedPackageRestoreTasks = new List<Task<bool>>();
-            if (!fallbackToFullPackage)
-            {
-                // Skip restoring externals and runtime if we are going to fullback to the full package.
-                if (externalsTrimmed)
-                {
-                    trimmedPackageRestoreTasks.Add(RestoreTrimmedExternals(latestRunnerDirectory, token));
-                }
-                if (runtimeTrimmed)
-                {
-                    trimmedPackageRestoreTasks.Add(RestoreTrimmedDotnetRuntime(latestRunnerDirectory, token));
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (trimmedPackageRestoreTasks.Count > 0)
-            {
-                var restoreResults = await Task.WhenAll(trimmedPackageRestoreTasks);
-                if (restoreResults.Any(x => x == false))
-                {
-                    // if any of the restore failed, fallback to full package.
-                    fallbackToFullPackage = true;
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (fallbackToFullPackage)
-            {
-                Trace.Error("Something wrong with the trimmed runner package, failback to use the full package for runner updates.");
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"FallbackToFullPackage: {fallbackToFullPackage}");
-
-                IOUtil.DeleteDirectory(latestRunnerDirectory, token);
-                Directory.CreateDirectory(latestRunnerDirectory);
-
-                packageDownloadUrl = _targetPackage.DownloadUrl;
-                packageHashValue = _targetPackage.HashValue;
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"DownloadUrl: {packageDownloadUrl}");
-
-                try
-                {
-                    archiveFile = await DownLoadRunner(latestRunnerDirectory, packageDownloadUrl, packageHashValue, token);
-
-                    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(archiveFile))
-                    {
-                        throw new TaskCanceledException($"Runner package '{packageDownloadUrl}' failed after {Constants.RunnerDownloadRetryMaxAttempts} download attempts");
-                    }
-
-                    await ValidateRunnerHash(archiveFile, packageHashValue);
-
-                    await ExtractRunnerPackage(archiveFile, latestRunnerDirectory, token);
-                }
-                finally
-                {
-                    try
-                    {
-                        // delete .zip file
-                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(archiveFile) && File.Exists(archiveFile))
-                        {
-                            Trace.Verbose("Deleting latest runner package zip: {0}", archiveFile);
-                            IOUtil.DeleteFile(archiveFile);
-                        }
-                    }
-                    catch (Exception ex)
-                    {
-                        //it is not critical if we fail to delete the .zip file
-                        Trace.Warning("Failed to delete runner package zip '{0}'. Exception: {1}", archiveFile, ex);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            await CopyLatestRunnerToRoot(latestRunnerDirectory, token);
-        }
-
-        private async Task<string> DownLoadRunner(string downloadDirectory, string packageDownloadUrl, string packageHashValue, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            int runnerSuffix = 1;
            string archiveFile = null;
            bool downloadSucceeded = false;

+            try
+            {
                // Download the runner, using multiple attempts in order to be resilient against any networking/CDN issues
                for (int attempt = 1; attempt <= Constants.RunnerDownloadRetryMaxAttempts; attempt++)
                {
@@ -387,11 +170,11 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                    {
                        if (_targetPackage.Platform.StartsWith("win"))
                        {
-                        archiveFile = Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, $"runner{runnerSuffix}.zip");
+                            archiveFile = Path.Combine(latestRunnerDirectory, $"runner{runnerSuffix}.zip");
                        }
                        else
                        {
-                        archiveFile = Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, $"runner{runnerSuffix}.tar.gz");
+                            archiveFile = Path.Combine(latestRunnerDirectory, $"runner{runnerSuffix}.tar.gz");
                        }

                        try
@@ -427,7 +210,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                        try
                        {
                            Trace.Info($"Download runner: begin download");
-                        long downloadSize = 0;

                            //open zip stream in async mode
                            using (HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(HostContext.CreateHttpClientHandler()))
@@ -438,24 +220,19 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                    httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", _targetPackage.Token);
                                }

-                            Trace.Info($"Downloading {packageDownloadUrl}");
+                                Trace.Info($"Downloading {_targetPackage.DownloadUrl}");

                                using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(archiveFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None, bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true))
-                            using (Stream result = await httpClient.GetStreamAsync(packageDownloadUrl))
+                                using (Stream result = await httpClient.GetStreamAsync(_targetPackage.DownloadUrl))
                                {
                                    //81920 is the default used by System.IO.Stream.CopyTo and is under the large object heap threshold (85k).
                                    await result.CopyToAsync(fs, 81920, downloadCts.Token);
                                    await fs.FlushAsync(downloadCts.Token);
-                                downloadSize = fs.Length;
                                }
                            }

                            Trace.Info($"Download runner: finished download");
                            downloadSucceeded = true;
-                        stopWatch.Stop();
-                        _updateTrace.Enqueue($"PackageDownloadTime: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-                        _updateTrace.Enqueue($"Attempts: {attempt}");
-                        _updateTrace.Enqueue($"PackageSize: {downloadSize / 1024 / 1024}MB");
                            break;
                        }
                        catch (OperationCanceledException) when (token.IsCancellationRequested)
@@ -470,54 +247,38 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                                Trace.Warning($"Runner download has timed out after {timeoutSeconds} seconds");
                            }

-                        Trace.Warning($"Failed to get package '{archiveFile}' from '{packageDownloadUrl}'. Exception {ex}");
+                            Trace.Warning($"Failed to get package '{archiveFile}' from '{_targetPackage.DownloadUrl}'. Exception {ex}");
                        }
                    }
                }

-            if (downloadSucceeded)
+                if (!downloadSucceeded)
                {
-                return archiveFile;
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                return null;
-            }
+                    throw new TaskCanceledException($"Runner package '{archiveFile}' failed after {Constants.RunnerDownloadRetryMaxAttempts} download attempts");
                }

-        private async Task ValidateRunnerHash(string archiveFile, string packageHashValue)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
+                // If we got this far, we know that we've successfully downloaded the runner package
                // Validate Hash Matches if it is provided
                using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(archiveFile))
                {
-                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(packageHashValue))
+                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(_targetPackage.HashValue))
                    {
                        using (SHA256 sha256 = SHA256.Create())
                        {
                            byte[] srcHashBytes = await sha256.ComputeHashAsync(stream);
                            var hash = PrimitiveExtensions.ConvertToHexString(srcHashBytes);
-                        if (hash != packageHashValue)
+                            if (hash != _targetPackage.HashValue)
                            {
                                // Hash did not match, we can't recover from this, just throw
-                            throw new Exception($"Computed runner hash {hash} did not match expected Runner Hash {packageHashValue} for {archiveFile}");
+                                throw new Exception($"Computed runner hash {hash} did not match expected Runner Hash {_targetPackage.HashValue} for {_targetPackage.Filename}");
                            }
-
-                        stopWatch.Stop();
-                        Trace.Info($"Validated Runner Hash matches {archiveFile} : {packageHashValue}");
-                        _updateTrace.Enqueue($"ValidateHashTime: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+                            Trace.Info($"Validated Runner Hash matches {_targetPackage.Filename} : {_targetPackage.HashValue}");
                        }
                    }
                }
-        }
-
-        private async Task ExtractRunnerPackage(string archiveFile, string extractDirectory, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-
                if (archiveFile.EndsWith(".zip", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
-                ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(archiveFile, extractDirectory);
+                    ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(archiveFile, latestRunnerDirectory);
                }
                else if (archiveFile.EndsWith(".tar.gz", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
@@ -547,7 +308,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                            }
                        });

-                    int exitCode = await processInvoker.ExecuteAsync(extractDirectory, tar, $"-xzf \"{archiveFile}\"", null, token);
+                        int exitCode = await processInvoker.ExecuteAsync(latestRunnerDirectory, tar, $"-xzf \"{archiveFile}\"", null, token);
                        if (exitCode != 0)
                        {
                            throw new NotSupportedException($"Can't use 'tar -xzf' extract archive file: {archiveFile}. return code: {exitCode}.");
@@ -559,14 +320,26 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                    throw new NotSupportedException($"{archiveFile}");
                }

-            stopWatch.Stop();
-            Trace.Info($"Finished getting latest runner package at: {extractDirectory}.");
-            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"PackageExtractTime: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
+                Trace.Info($"Finished getting latest runner package at: {latestRunnerDirectory}.");
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    // delete .zip file
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(archiveFile) && File.Exists(archiveFile))
+                    {
+                        Trace.Verbose("Deleting latest runner package zip: {0}", archiveFile);
+                        IOUtil.DeleteFile(archiveFile);
+                    }
+                }
+                catch (Exception ex)
+                {
+                    //it is not critical if we fail to delete the .zip file
+                    Trace.Warning("Failed to delete runner package zip '{0}'. Exception: {1}", archiveFile, ex);
+                }
            }

-        private Task CopyLatestRunnerToRoot(string latestRunnerDirectory, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            // copy latest runner into runner root folder
            // copy bin from _work/_update -> bin.version under root
            string binVersionDir = Path.Combine(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Root), $"{Constants.Path.BinDirectory}.{_targetPackage.Version}");
@@ -592,10 +365,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                IOUtil.DeleteFile(destination);
                file.CopyTo(destination, true);
            }
-
-            stopWatch.Stop();
-            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"CopyRunnerToRootTime: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        private void DeletePreviousVersionRunnerBackup(CancellationToken token)
@@ -719,24 +488,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
        {
            _terminal.WriteLine(currentState);

-            var traces = new List<string>();
-            while (_updateTrace.TryDequeue(out var trace))
-            {
-                traces.Add(trace);
-            }
-
-            if (traces.Count > 0)
-            {
-                foreach (var trace in traces)
-                {
-                    Trace.Info(trace);
-                }
-            }
-
            try
            {
-                await _runnerServer.UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(_poolId, _agentId, currentState, string.Join(Environment.NewLine, traces));
-                _updateTrace.Clear();
+                await _runnerServer.UpdateAgentUpdateStateAsync(_poolId, _agentId, currentState);
            }
            catch (VssResourceNotFoundException)
            {
@@ -749,328 +503,5 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Listener
                Trace.Info($"Catch exception during report update state, ignore this error and continue auto-update.");
            }
        }
-
-        private async Task<bool> RestoreTrimmedExternals(string downloadDirectory, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            // Copy the current runner's externals if we are using a externals trimmed package
-            // Execute the node.js to make sure the copied externals is working.
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Copy {_externalsCloneDirectory} to {Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.ExternalsDirectory)}.");
-                IOUtil.CopyDirectory(_externalsCloneDirectory, Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.ExternalsDirectory), token);
-
-                // try run node.js to see if current node.js works fine after copy over to new location.
-                var nodeVersions = new[] { "node12", "node16" };
-                foreach (var nodeVersion in nodeVersions)
-                {
-                    var newNodeBinary = Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.ExternalsDirectory, nodeVersion, "bin", $"node{IOUtil.ExeExtension}");
-                    if (File.Exists(newNodeBinary))
-                    {
-                        using (var p = HostContext.CreateService<IProcessInvoker>())
-                        {
-                            var outputs = "";
-                            p.ErrorDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                            {
-                                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Data))
-                                {
-                                    Trace.Error(data.Data);
-                                }
-                            };
-                            p.OutputDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                            {
-                                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Data))
-                                {
-                                    Trace.Info(data.Data);
-                                    outputs = data.Data;
-                                }
-                            };
-                            var exitCode = await p.ExecuteAsync(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Root), newNodeBinary, $"-e \"console.log('{nameof(RestoreTrimmedExternals)}')\"", null, token);
-                            if (exitCode != 0)
-                            {
-                                Trace.Error($"{newNodeBinary} -e \"console.log()\" failed with exit code {exitCode}");
-                                return false;
-                            }
-
-                            if (!string.Equals(outputs, nameof(RestoreTrimmedExternals), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
-                            {
-                                Trace.Error($"{newNodeBinary} -e \"console.log()\" did not output expected content.");
-                                return false;
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-
-                return true;
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error($"Fail to restore externals for trimmed package: {ex}");
-                return false;
-            }
-            finally
-            {
-                stopWatch.Stop();
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"{nameof(RestoreTrimmedExternals)}Time: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-            }
-        }
-
-        private async Task<bool> RestoreTrimmedDotnetRuntime(string downloadDirectory, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            // Copy the current runner's dotnet runtime if we are using a dotnet runtime trimmed package
-            // Execute the runner.listener to make sure the copied runtime is working.
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Copy {_dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory} to {Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.BinDirectory)}.");
-                IOUtil.CopyDirectory(_dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory, Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.BinDirectory), token);
-
-                // try run the runner executable to see if current dotnet runtime + future runner binary works fine.
-                var newRunnerBinary = Path.Combine(downloadDirectory, Constants.Path.BinDirectory, "Runner.Listener");
-                using (var p = HostContext.CreateService<IProcessInvoker>())
-                {
-                    p.ErrorDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                    {
-                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Data))
-                        {
-                            Trace.Error(data.Data);
-                        }
-                    };
-                    p.OutputDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                    {
-                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Data))
-                        {
-                            Trace.Info(data.Data);
-                        }
-                    };
-                    var exitCode = await p.ExecuteAsync(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Root), newRunnerBinary, "--version", null, token);
-                    if (exitCode != 0)
-                    {
-                        Trace.Error($"{newRunnerBinary} --version failed with exit code {exitCode}");
-                        return false;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        return true;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error($"Fail to restore dotnet runtime for trimmed package: {ex}");
-                return false;
-            }
-            finally
-            {
-                stopWatch.Stop();
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"{nameof(RestoreTrimmedDotnetRuntime)}Time: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-            }
-        }
-
-        private async Task CloneAndCalculateAssetsHash(string dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory, string externalsCloneDirectory, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var runtimeCloneTask = CloneDotnetRuntime(dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory, token);
-            var externalsCloneTask = CloneExternals(externalsCloneDirectory, token);
-
-            var waitingTasks = new Dictionary<string, Task>()
-            {
-                {nameof(CloneDotnetRuntime), runtimeCloneTask},
-                {nameof(CloneExternals),externalsCloneTask}
-            };
-
-            while (waitingTasks.Count > 0)
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Waiting for {waitingTasks.Count} tasks to complete.");
-                var complatedTask = await Task.WhenAny(waitingTasks.Values);
-                if (waitingTasks.ContainsKey(nameof(CloneExternals)) &&
-                    complatedTask == waitingTasks[nameof(CloneExternals)])
-                {
-                    Trace.Info($"Externals clone finished.");
-                    waitingTasks.Remove(nameof(CloneExternals));
-                    try
-                    {
-                        if (await externalsCloneTask && !token.IsCancellationRequested)
-                        {
-                            var externalsHash = await HashFiles(externalsCloneDirectory, token);
-                            Trace.Info($"Externals content hash: {externalsHash}");
-                            _contentHashes[_externals] = externalsHash;
-                            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"ExternalsHash: {_contentHashes[_externals]}");
-                        }
-                        else
-                        {
-                            Trace.Error($"Skip compute hash since clone externals failed/cancelled.");
-                        }
-                    }
-                    catch (Exception ex)
-                    {
-                        Trace.Error($"Fail to hash externals content: {ex}");
-                    }
-                }
-                else if (waitingTasks.ContainsKey(nameof(CloneDotnetRuntime)) &&
-                         complatedTask == waitingTasks[nameof(CloneDotnetRuntime)])
-                {
-                    Trace.Info($"Dotnet runtime clone finished.");
-                    waitingTasks.Remove(nameof(CloneDotnetRuntime));
-                    try
-                    {
-                        if (await runtimeCloneTask && !token.IsCancellationRequested)
-                        {
-                            var runtimeHash = await HashFiles(dotnetRuntimeCloneDirectory, token);
-                            Trace.Info($"Runtime content hash: {runtimeHash}");
-                            _contentHashes[_dotnetRuntime] = runtimeHash;
-                            _updateTrace.Enqueue($"DotnetRuntimeHash: {_contentHashes[_dotnetRuntime]}");
-                        }
-                        else
-                        {
-                            Trace.Error($"Skip compute hash since clone dotnet runtime failed/cancelled.");
-                        }
-                    }
-                    catch (Exception ex)
-                    {
-                        Trace.Error($"Fail to hash runtime content: {ex}");
-                    }
-                }
-
-                Trace.Info($"Still waiting for {waitingTasks.Count} tasks to complete.");
-            }
-        }
-
-        private async Task<bool> CloneDotnetRuntime(string runtimeDir, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Cloning dotnet runtime to {runtimeDir}");
-                IOUtil.DeleteDirectory(runtimeDir, CancellationToken.None);
-                Directory.CreateDirectory(runtimeDir);
-
-                var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
-                var assetsContent = default(string);
-                using (var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("GitHub.Runner.Listener.runnercoreassets"))
-                using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(stream))
-                {
-                    assetsContent = await streamReader.ReadToEndAsync();
-                }
-
-                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(assetsContent))
-                {
-                    var runnerCoreAssets = assetsContent.Split(new[] { "\n", "\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
-                    if (runnerCoreAssets.Length > 0)
-                    {
-                        var binDir = HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Bin);
-                        IOUtil.CopyDirectory(binDir, runtimeDir, token);
-
-                        var clonedFile = 0;
-                        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(runtimeDir, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
-                        {
-                            token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
-                            if (runnerCoreAssets.Any(x => file.Replace(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar).EndsWith(x.Trim())))
-                            {
-                                Trace.Verbose($"{file} is part of the runner core, delete from cloned runtime directory.");
-                                IOUtil.DeleteFile(file);
-                            }
-                            else
-                            {
-                                clonedFile++;
-                            }
-                        }
-
-                        Trace.Info($"Successfully cloned dotnet runtime to {runtimeDir}. Total files: {clonedFile}");
-                        return true;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error($"Fail to clone dotnet runtime to {runtimeDir}");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-            finally
-            {
-                stopWatch.Stop();
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"{nameof(CloneDotnetRuntime)}Time: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-            }
-
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        private Task<bool> CloneExternals(string externalsDir, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-            try
-            {
-                Trace.Info($"Cloning externals to {externalsDir}");
-                IOUtil.DeleteDirectory(externalsDir, CancellationToken.None);
-                Directory.CreateDirectory(externalsDir);
-                IOUtil.CopyDirectory(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Externals), externalsDir, token);
-                Trace.Info($"Successfully cloned externals to {externalsDir}.");
-                return Task.FromResult(true);
-            }
-            catch (Exception ex)
-            {
-                Trace.Error($"Fail to clone externals to {externalsDir}");
-                Trace.Error(ex);
-            }
-            finally
-            {
-                stopWatch.Stop();
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"{nameof(CloneExternals)}Time: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-            }
-
-            return Task.FromResult(false);
-        }
-
-        private async Task<string> HashFiles(string fileFolder, CancellationToken token)
-        {
-            Trace.Info($"Calculating hash for {fileFolder}");
-
-            var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-            string binDir = HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Bin);
-            string node = Path.Combine(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Externals), "node12", "bin", $"node{IOUtil.ExeExtension}");
-            string hashFilesScript = Path.Combine(binDir, "hashFiles");
-            var hashResult = string.Empty;
-
-            using (var processInvoker = HostContext.CreateService<IProcessInvoker>())
-            {
-                processInvoker.ErrorDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                {
-                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Data) && data.Data.StartsWith("__OUTPUT__") && data.Data.EndsWith("__OUTPUT__"))
-                    {
-                        hashResult = data.Data.Substring(10, data.Data.Length - 20);
-                        Trace.Info($"Hash result: '{hashResult}'");
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        Trace.Info(data.Data);
-                    }
-                };
-
-                processInvoker.OutputDataReceived += (_, data) =>
-                {
-                    Trace.Verbose(data.Data);
-                };
-
-                var env = new Dictionary<string, string>
-                {
-                    ["patterns"] = "**"
-                };
-
-                int exitCode = await processInvoker.ExecuteAsync(workingDirectory: fileFolder,
-                                              fileName: node,
-                                              arguments: $"\"{hashFilesScript.Replace("\"", "\\\"")}\"",
-                                              environment: env,
-                                              requireExitCodeZero: false,
-                                              cancellationToken: token);
-
-                if (exitCode != 0)
-                {
-                    Trace.Error($"hashFiles returns '{exitCode}' failed. Fail to hash files under directory '{fileFolder}'");
-                }
-
-                stopWatch.Stop();
-                _updateTrace.Enqueue($"{nameof(HashFiles)}{Path.GetFileName(fileFolder)}Time: {stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds}ms");
-                return hashResult;
-            }
-        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.PluginHost/Runner.PluginHost.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.PluginHost/Runner.PluginHost.csproj
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
-    <PredefinedCulturesOnly>false</PredefinedCulturesOnly>
-    <PublishReadyToRunComposite>true</PublishReadyToRunComposite>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
+    <PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Plugins/Artifact/FileContainerServer.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Plugins/Artifact/FileContainerServer.cs
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Plugins.Artifact
                {
                    // We should never
                    context.Error($"Error '{ex.Message}' when downloading file '{fileToDownload}'. (Downloader {downloaderId})");
-                    throw;
+                    throw ex;
                }
            }

@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Plugins.Artifact
                        try
                        {
                            uploadTimer.Restart();
-                            using (HttpResponseMessage response = await _fileContainerHttpClient.UploadFileAsync(_containerId, itemPath, fs, _projectId, cancellationToken: token))
+                            using (HttpResponseMessage response = await _fileContainerHttpClient.UploadFileAsync(_containerId, itemPath, fs, _projectId, cancellationToken: token, chunkSize: 4 * 1024 * 1024))
                            {
                                if (response == null || response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.Created)
                                {
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Plugins.Artifact
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    context.Output($"File error '{ex.Message}' when uploading file '{fileToUpload}'.");
-                    throw;
+                    throw ex;
                }
            }

--- a/src/Runner.Plugins/Runner.Plugins.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.Plugins/Runner.Plugins.csproj
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Sdk/Runner.Sdk.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.Sdk/Runner.Sdk.csproj
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
  </PropertyGroup>
  
  <ItemGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Sdk/Util/VssUtil.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Sdk/Util/VssUtil.cs
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Sdk

            VssClientHttpRequestSettings.Default.UserAgent = headerValues;
            VssHttpMessageHandler.DefaultWebProxy = proxy;
-
-            if (StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUNNER_TLS_NO_VERIFY")))
-            {
-                VssClientHttpRequestSettings.Default.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = HttpClientHandler.DangerousAcceptAnyServerCertificateValidator;
-            }
        }

        public static VssConnection CreateConnection(Uri serverUri, VssCredentials credentials, IEnumerable<DelegatingHandler> additionalDelegatingHandler = null, TimeSpan? timeout = null)
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/ActionCommandManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/ActionCommandManager.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-using GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines.ContextData;
+using GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines;
+using GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines.ContextData;
 using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
 using GitHub.Runner.Worker.Container;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
@@ -108,18 +110,11 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                    // Stop command
                    if (string.Equals(actionCommand.Command, _stopCommand, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    {
-                        ValidateStopToken(context, actionCommand.Data);
-
+                        context.Output(input);
+                        context.Debug("Paused processing commands until '##[{actionCommand.Data}]' is received");
                        _stopToken = actionCommand.Data;
                        _stopProcessCommand = true;
                        _registeredCommands.Add(_stopToken);
-                        if (_stopToken.Length > 6)
-                        {
-                            HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(_stopToken);
-                        }
-
-                        context.Output(input);
-                        context.Debug("Paused processing commands until the token you called ::stopCommands:: with is received");
                        return true;
                    }
                    // Found command
@@ -153,42 +148,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            return true;
        }

-        private void ValidateStopToken(IExecutionContext context, string stopToken)
-        {
-#if OS_WINDOWS
-            var envContext = context.ExpressionValues["env"] as DictionaryContextData;
-#else
-            var envContext = context.ExpressionValues["env"] as CaseSensitiveDictionaryContextData;
-#endif
-            var allowUnsecureStopCommandTokens = false;
-            allowUnsecureStopCommandTokens = StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(Constants.Variables.Actions.AllowUnsupportedStopCommandTokens));
-            if (!allowUnsecureStopCommandTokens && envContext.ContainsKey(Constants.Variables.Actions.AllowUnsupportedStopCommandTokens))
-            {
-                allowUnsecureStopCommandTokens = StringUtil.ConvertToBoolean(envContext[Constants.Variables.Actions.AllowUnsupportedStopCommandTokens].ToString());
-            }
-
-            bool isTokenInvalid = _registeredCommands.Contains(stopToken)
-                || string.IsNullOrEmpty(stopToken)
-                || string.Equals(stopToken, "pause-logging", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
-
-            if (isTokenInvalid)
-            {
-                var telemetry = new JobTelemetry
-                {
-                    Message = $"Invoked ::stopCommand:: with token: [{stopToken}]",
-                    Type = JobTelemetryType.ActionCommand
-                };
-                context.JobTelemetry.Add(telemetry);
-            }
-
-            if (isTokenInvalid && !allowUnsecureStopCommandTokens)
-            {
-                throw new Exception(Constants.Runner.UnsupportedStopCommandTokenDisabled);
-            }
-        }
-
-        internal static bool EnhancedAnnotationsEnabled(IExecutionContext context)
-        {
+        internal static bool EnhancedAnnotationsEnabled(IExecutionContext context) {
            return context.Global.Variables.GetBoolean("DistributedTask.EnhancedAnnotations") ?? false;
        }
    }
@@ -381,13 +341,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker

                HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(command.Data);
                Trace.Info($"Add new secret mask with length of {command.Data.Length}");
-
-                // Also add each individual line. Typically individual lines are processed from STDOUT of child processes.
-                var split = command.Data.Split(new[] { '\r', '\n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries | StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries);
-                foreach (var item in split)
-                {
-                    HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(item);
-                }
            }
        }
    }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/ActionManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/ActionManager.cs
@@ -267,19 +267,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                            _cachedEmbeddedPostSteps[parentStepId].Push(clonedAction);
                        }
                    }
-                    else if (depth > 0)
-                    {
-                        // if we're in a composite action and haven't loaded the local action yet
-                        // we assume it has a post step
-                        if (!_cachedEmbeddedPostSteps.ContainsKey(parentStepId))
-                        {
-                            // If we haven't done so already, add the parent to the post steps
-                            _cachedEmbeddedPostSteps[parentStepId] = new Stack<Pipelines.ActionStep>();
-                        }
-                        // Clone action so we can modify the condition without affecting the original
-                        var clonedAction = action.Clone() as Pipelines.ActionStep;
-                        _cachedEmbeddedPostSteps[parentStepId].Push(clonedAction);
-                    }
                }
            }

@@ -443,7 +430,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        {
                            for (var i = 0; i < compositeAction.Steps.Count; i++)
                            {
-                                // Load stored Ids for later load actions
+                                // Store Id's for later load actions
                                compositeAction.Steps[i].Id = _cachedEmbeddedStepIds[action.Id][i];
                                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(executionContext.Global.Variables.Get("DistributedTask.EnableCompositeActions")) && compositeAction.Steps[i].Reference.Type != Pipelines.ActionSourceType.Script)
                                {
@@ -451,16 +438,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                                }
                            }
                        }
-                        else
-                        {
-                            _cachedEmbeddedStepIds[action.Id] = new List<Guid>();
-                            foreach (var compositeStep in compositeAction.Steps)
-                            {
-                                var guid = Guid.NewGuid();
-                                compositeStep.Id = guid;
-                                _cachedEmbeddedStepIds[action.Id].Add(guid);
-                            }
-                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
@@ -633,7 +610,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                    {
                        NameWithOwner = repositoryReference.Name,
                        Ref = repositoryReference.Ref,
-                        Path = repositoryReference.Path,
                    };
                })
                .ToList();
@@ -656,12 +632,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                }
                catch (Exception ex) when (!executionContext.CancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested) // Do not retry if the run is canceled.
                {
-                    // UnresolvableActionDownloadInfoException is a 422 client error, don't retry
-                    // Some possible cases are:
-                    // * Repo is rate limited
-                    // * Repo or tag doesn't exist, or isn't public
-                    // * Policy validation failed
-                    if (attempt < 3 && !(ex is WebApi.UnresolvableActionDownloadInfoException))
+                    if (attempt < 3)
                    {
                        executionContext.Output($"Failed to resolve action download info. Error: {ex.Message}");
                        executionContext.Debug(ex.ToString());
@@ -677,7 +648,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        // Some possible cases are:
                        // * Repo is rate limited
                        // * Repo or tag doesn't exist, or isn't public
-                        // * Policy validation failed
                        if (ex is WebApi.UnresolvableActionDownloadInfoException)
                        {
                            throw;
@@ -1057,6 +1027,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        }
                    }

+                    // TODO: remove once we remove the DistributedTask.EnableCompositeActions FF
                    foreach (var step in compositeAction.Steps)
                    {
                        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(executionContext.Global.Variables.Get("DistributedTask.EnableCompositeActions")) && step.Reference.Type != Pipelines.ActionSourceType.Script)
@@ -1199,8 +1170,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        public string Pre { get; set; }

        public string Post { get; set; }
-
-        public string NodeVersion { get; set; }
    }

    public sealed class PluginActionExecutionData : ActionExecutionData
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/ActionManifestManager.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/ActionManifestManager.cs
@@ -451,8 +451,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        };
                    }
                }
-                else if (string.Equals(usingToken.Value, "node12", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)||
-                         string.Equals(usingToken.Value, "node16", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                else if (string.Equals(usingToken.Value, "node12", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
                    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(mainToken?.Value))
                    {
@@ -462,7 +461,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                    {
                        return new NodeJSActionExecutionData()
                        {
-                            NodeVersion = usingToken.Value,
                            Script = mainToken.Value,
                            Pre = preToken?.Value,
                            InitCondition = preIfToken?.Value ?? "always()",
@@ -492,7 +490,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                }
                else
                {
-                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException($"'using: {usingToken.Value}' is not supported, use 'docker', 'node12' or 'node16' instead.");
+                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException($"'using: {usingToken.Value}' is not supported, use 'docker' or 'node12' instead.");
                }
            }
            else if (pluginToken != null)
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/ContainerOperationProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/ContainerOperationProvider.cs
@@ -55,14 +55,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            // Our container feature requires to map working directory from host to the container.
            // If we are already inside a container, we will not able to find out the real working direcotry path on the host.
 #if OS_WINDOWS
-#pragma warning disable CA1416
            // service CExecSvc is Container Execution Agent.
            ServiceController[] scServices = ServiceController.GetServices();
            if (scServices.Any(x => String.Equals(x.ServiceName, "cexecsvc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) && x.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running))
            {
                throw new NotSupportedException("Container feature is not supported when runner is already running inside container.");
            }
-#pragma warning restore CA1416
 #else
            var initProcessCgroup = File.ReadLines("/proc/1/cgroup");
            if (initProcessCgroup.Any(x => x.IndexOf(":/docker/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0))
@@ -72,7 +70,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
 #endif

 #if OS_WINDOWS
-#pragma warning disable CA1416
            // Check OS version (Windows server 1803 is required)
            object windowsInstallationType = Registry.GetValue(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion", "InstallationType", defaultValue: null);
            ArgUtil.NotNull(windowsInstallationType, nameof(windowsInstallationType));
@@ -91,7 +88,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ReleaseId");
            }
-#pragma warning restore CA1416
 #endif

            // Check docker client/server version
@@ -338,18 +334,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(container.ContainerId))
            {
-                if(!container.IsJobContainer)
-                {
-                    // Print logs for service container jobs (not the "action" job itself b/c that's already logged).
-                    executionContext.Output($"Print service container logs: {container.ContainerDisplayName}");
-                    
-                    int logsExitCode = await _dockerManager.DockerLogs(executionContext, container.ContainerId);
-                    if (logsExitCode != 0)
-                    {
-                        executionContext.Warning($"Docker logs fail with exit code {logsExitCode}");
-                    }
-                }
-
                executionContext.Output($"Stop and remove container: {container.ContainerDisplayName}");

                int rmExitCode = await _dockerManager.DockerRemove(executionContext, container.ContainerId);
@@ -510,8 +494,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        private void UpdateRegistryAuthForGitHubToken(IExecutionContext executionContext, ContainerInfo container)
        {
            var registryIsTokenCompatible = container.RegistryServer.Equals("ghcr.io", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || container.RegistryServer.Equals("containers.pkg.github.com", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
-            var isFallbackTokenFromHostedGithub = HostContext.GetService<IConfigurationStore>().GetSettings().IsHostedServer;
-            if (!registryIsTokenCompatible || !isFallbackTokenFromHostedGithub)
+            if (!registryIsTokenCompatible)
            {
                return;
            }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/ExecutionContext.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/ExecutionContext.cs
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        Guid Id { get; }
        Guid EmbeddedId { get; }
        string ScopeName { get; }
-        string SiblingScopeName { get; }
        string ContextName { get; }
-        ActionRunStage Stage { get; }
        Task ForceCompleted { get; }
        TaskResult? Result { get; set; }
        TaskResult? Outcome { get; set; }
@@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        Dictionary<string, VariableValue> JobOutputs { get; }
        ActionsEnvironmentReference ActionsEnvironment { get; }
        List<ActionsStepTelemetry> ActionsStepsTelemetry { get; }
-        List<JobTelemetry> JobTelemetry { get; }
        DictionaryContextData ExpressionValues { get; }
        IList<IFunctionInfo> ExpressionFunctions { get; }
        JobContext JobContext { get; }
@@ -63,7 +60,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker

        // Only job level ExecutionContext has PostJobSteps
        Stack<IStep> PostJobSteps { get; }
-        Dictionary<Guid, string> EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered { get; }
+        HashSet<Guid> EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered{ get; }

        // Keep track of embedded steps states
        Dictionary<Guid, Dictionary<string, string>> EmbeddedIntraActionState { get; }
@@ -77,8 +74,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        // Initialize
        void InitializeJob(Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message, CancellationToken token);
        void CancelToken();
-        IExecutionContext CreateChild(Guid recordId, string displayName, string refName, string scopeName, string contextName, ActionRunStage stage, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, int? recordOrder = null, IPagingLogger logger = null, bool isEmbedded = false, CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource = null, Guid embeddedId = default(Guid), string siblingScopeName = null);
-        IExecutionContext CreateEmbeddedChild(string scopeName, string contextName, Guid embeddedId, ActionRunStage stage, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, string siblingScopeName = null);
+        IExecutionContext CreateChild(Guid recordId, string displayName, string refName, string scopeName, string contextName, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, int? recordOrder = null, IPagingLogger logger = null, bool isEmbedded = false, CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource = null, Guid embeddedId = default(Guid));
+        IExecutionContext CreateEmbeddedChild(string scopeName, string contextName, Guid embeddedId, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null);

        // logging
        long Write(string tag, string message);
@@ -143,9 +140,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        public Guid Id => _record.Id;
        public Guid EmbeddedId { get; private set; }
        public string ScopeName { get; private set; }
-        public string SiblingScopeName { get; private set; }
        public string ContextName { get; private set; }
-        public ActionRunStage Stage { get; private set; }
        public Task ForceCompleted => _forceCompleted.Task;
        public CancellationToken CancellationToken => _cancellationTokenSource.Token;
        public Dictionary<string, string> IntraActionState { get; private set; }
@@ -153,7 +148,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker

        public ActionsEnvironmentReference ActionsEnvironment { get; private set; }
        public List<ActionsStepTelemetry> ActionsStepsTelemetry { get; private set; }
-        public List<JobTelemetry> JobTelemetry { get; private set; }
        public DictionaryContextData ExpressionValues { get; } = new DictionaryContextData();
        public IList<IFunctionInfo> ExpressionFunctions { get; } = new List<IFunctionInfo>();

@@ -170,7 +164,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        public HashSet<Guid> StepsWithPostRegistered { get; private set; }

        // Only job level ExecutionContext has EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered
-        public Dictionary<Guid, string> EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered { get; private set; }
+        public HashSet<Guid> EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered { get; private set; }

        public Dictionary<Guid, Dictionary<string, string>> EmbeddedIntraActionState { get; private set; }

@@ -264,37 +258,25 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker

        public void RegisterPostJobStep(IStep step)
        {
-            string siblingScopeName = null;
            if (this.IsEmbedded)
            {
-                if (step is IActionRunner actionRunner)
-                {
-                    if (Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered.ContainsKey(actionRunner.Action.Id))
+                if (step is IActionRunner actionRunner && !Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered.Add(actionRunner.Action.Id))
                {
                    Trace.Info($"'post' of '{actionRunner.DisplayName}' already push to child post step stack.");
                }
-                    else 
-                    {
-                        Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered[actionRunner.Action.Id] = actionRunner.Condition;    
-                    }
                return;
            } 
-            }
            else if (step is IActionRunner actionRunner && !Root.StepsWithPostRegistered.Add(actionRunner.Action.Id))
            {
                Trace.Info($"'post' of '{actionRunner.DisplayName}' already push to post step stack.");
                return;
            }
-            if (step is IActionRunner runner)
-            {
-                siblingScopeName = runner.Action.ContextName;
-            }

-            step.ExecutionContext = Root.CreatePostChild(step.DisplayName, IntraActionState, siblingScopeName);
+            step.ExecutionContext = Root.CreatePostChild(step.DisplayName, IntraActionState);
            Root.PostJobSteps.Push(step);
        }

-        public IExecutionContext CreateChild(Guid recordId, string displayName, string refName, string scopeName, string contextName, ActionRunStage stage, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, int? recordOrder = null, IPagingLogger logger = null, bool isEmbedded = false, CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource = null, Guid embeddedId = default(Guid), string siblingScopeName = null)
+        public IExecutionContext CreateChild(Guid recordId, string displayName, string refName, string scopeName, string contextName, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, int? recordOrder = null, IPagingLogger logger = null, bool isEmbedded = false, CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource = null, Guid embeddedId = default(Guid))
        {
            Trace.Entering();

@@ -303,10 +285,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            child.Global = Global;
            child.ScopeName = scopeName;
            child.ContextName = contextName;
-            child.Stage = stage;
            child.EmbeddedId = embeddedId;
-            child.SiblingScopeName = siblingScopeName;
-            child.JobTelemetry = JobTelemetry;
            if (intraActionState == null)
            {
                child.IntraActionState = new Dictionary<string, string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
@@ -354,9 +333,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        /// An embedded execution context shares the same record ID, record name, logger,
        /// and a linked cancellation token.
        /// </summary>
-        public IExecutionContext CreateEmbeddedChild(string scopeName, string contextName, Guid embeddedId, ActionRunStage stage, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null, string siblingScopeName = null)
+        public IExecutionContext CreateEmbeddedChild(string scopeName, string contextName, Guid embeddedId, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState = null)
        {
-            return Root.CreateChild(_record.Id, _record.Name, _record.Id.ToString("N"), scopeName, contextName, stage, logger: _logger, isEmbedded: true, cancellationTokenSource: CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(_cancellationTokenSource.Token), intraActionState: intraActionState, embeddedId: embeddedId, siblingScopeName: siblingScopeName);
+            return Root.CreateChild(_record.Id, _record.Name, _record.Id.ToString("N"), scopeName, contextName, logger: _logger, isEmbedded: true, cancellationTokenSource: CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(_cancellationTokenSource.Token), intraActionState: intraActionState, embeddedId: embeddedId);
        }

        public void Start(string currentOperation = null)
@@ -663,8 +642,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            // ActionsStepTelemetry
            ActionsStepsTelemetry = new List<ActionsStepTelemetry>();

-            JobTelemetry = new List<JobTelemetry>();
-
            // Service container info
            Global.ServiceContainers = new List<ContainerInfo>();

@@ -726,10 +703,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            StepsWithPostRegistered = new HashSet<Guid>();

            // EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered for job ExecutionContext
-            EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered = new Dictionary<Guid, string>();
+            EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered = new HashSet<Guid>();

            // EmbeddedIntraActionState for job ExecutionContext
-            EmbeddedIntraActionState = new Dictionary<Guid, Dictionary<string, string>>();
+            EmbeddedIntraActionState = new Dictionary<Guid, Dictionary<string,string>>();

            // Job timeline record.
            InitializeTimelineRecord(
@@ -937,7 +914,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            }
        }

-        private IExecutionContext CreatePostChild(string displayName, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState, string siblingScopeName = null)
+        private IExecutionContext CreatePostChild(string displayName, Dictionary<string, string> intraActionState)
        {
            if (!_expandedForPostJob)
            {
@@ -947,7 +924,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            }

            var newGuid = Guid.NewGuid();
-            return CreateChild(newGuid, displayName, newGuid.ToString("N"), null, null, ActionRunStage.Post, intraActionState, _childTimelineRecordOrder - Root.PostJobSteps.Count, siblingScopeName: siblingScopeName);
+            return CreateChild(newGuid, displayName, newGuid.ToString("N"), null, null, intraActionState, _childTimelineRecordOrder - Root.PostJobSteps.Count);
        }
    }

@@ -980,7 +957,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        // Do not add a format string overload. See comment on ExecutionContext.Write().
        public static void InfrastructureError(this IExecutionContext context, string message)
        {
-            context.AddIssue(new Issue() { Type = IssueType.Error, Message = message, IsInfrastructureIssue = true });
+            context.AddIssue(new Issue() { Type = IssueType.Error, Message = message, IsInfrastructureIssue = true});
        }

        // Do not add a format string overload. See comment on ExecutionContext.Write().
@@ -995,6 +972,18 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            context.Write(null, message);
        }

+        public static void WriteDetails(this IExecutionContext context, string message)
+        {
+            if (context.IsEmbedded)
+            {
+                context.Debug(message);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                context.Output(message);
+            }
+        }
+
        // Do not add a format string overload. See comment on ExecutionContext.Write().
        public static void Command(this IExecutionContext context, string message)
        {
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Expressions/FailureFunction.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Expressions/FailureFunction.cs
@@ -24,19 +24,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Expressions
            ArgUtil.NotNull(templateContext, nameof(templateContext));
            var executionContext = templateContext.State[nameof(IExecutionContext)] as IExecutionContext;
            ArgUtil.NotNull(executionContext, nameof(executionContext));
-
-            // Decide based on 'action_status' for composite MAIN steps and 'job.status' for pre, post and job-level steps
-            var isCompositeMainStep = executionContext.IsEmbedded && executionContext.Stage == ActionRunStage.Main;
-            if (isCompositeMainStep)
-            {
-                ActionResult actionStatus = EnumUtil.TryParse<ActionResult>(executionContext.GetGitHubContext("action_status")) ?? ActionResult.Success;
-                return actionStatus == ActionResult.Failure;
-            }
-            else
-            {
            ActionResult jobStatus = executionContext.JobContext.Status ?? ActionResult.Success;
            return jobStatus == ActionResult.Failure;
        }
    }
-    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Expressions/SuccessFunction.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Expressions/SuccessFunction.cs
@@ -24,19 +24,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Expressions
            ArgUtil.NotNull(templateContext, nameof(templateContext));
            var executionContext = templateContext.State[nameof(IExecutionContext)] as IExecutionContext;
            ArgUtil.NotNull(executionContext, nameof(executionContext));
-
-            // Decide based on 'action_status' for composite MAIN steps and 'job.status' for pre, post and job-level steps
-            var isCompositeMainStep = executionContext.IsEmbedded && executionContext.Stage == ActionRunStage.Main;
-            if (isCompositeMainStep)
-            {
-                ActionResult actionStatus = EnumUtil.TryParse<ActionResult>(executionContext.GetGitHubContext("action_status")) ?? ActionResult.Success;
-                return actionStatus == ActionResult.Success;
-            }
-            else
-            {
            ActionResult jobStatus = executionContext.JobContext.Status ?? ActionResult.Success;
            return jobStatus == ActionResult.Success;
        }
    }
-    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/GitHubContext.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/GitHubContext.cs
@@ -23,13 +23,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            "job",
            "path",
            "ref",
-            "ref_name",
-            "ref_protected",
-            "ref_type",
            "repository",
            "repository_owner",
            "retention_days",
-            "run_attempt",
            "run_id",
            "run_number",
            "server_url",
@@ -42,17 +38,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        {
            foreach (var data in this)
            {
-                if (_contextEnvAllowlist.Contains(data.Key))
-                {
-                    if (data.Value is StringContextData value)
+                if (_contextEnvAllowlist.Contains(data.Key) && data.Value is StringContextData value)
                {
                    yield return new KeyValuePair<string, string>($"GITHUB_{data.Key.ToUpperInvariant()}", value);
                }
-                    else if (data.Value is BooleanContextData booleanValue)
-                    {
-                        yield return new KeyValuePair<string, string>($"GITHUB_{data.Key.ToUpperInvariant()}", booleanValue.ToString());
-                    }
-                }
            }
        }

--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/CompositeActionHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/CompositeActionHandler.cs
@@ -50,9 +50,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                // Only register post steps for steps that actually ran
                foreach (var step in Data.PostSteps.ToList())
                {
-                    if (ExecutionContext.Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered.ContainsKey(step.Id))
+                    if (ExecutionContext.Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered.Contains(step.Id))
                    {
-                        step.Condition = ExecutionContext.Root.EmbeddedStepsWithPostRegistered[step.Id];
                        steps.Add(step);
                    }
                    else
@@ -121,39 +120,25 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                // only relevant for local composite actions that need to JIT download/setup containers
                if (LocalActionContainerSetupSteps != null && LocalActionContainerSetupSteps.Count > 0)
                {
-                    foreach (var step in LocalActionContainerSetupSteps)
+                    foreach(var step in LocalActionContainerSetupSteps)
                    {
                        ArgUtil.NotNull(step, step.DisplayName);
                        var stepId = $"__{Guid.NewGuid()}";
-                        step.ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.CreateEmbeddedChild(childScopeName, stepId, Guid.NewGuid(), stage);
+                        step.ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.CreateEmbeddedChild(childScopeName, stepId, Guid.NewGuid());
                        embeddedSteps.Add(step);
                    }
                }
+
                foreach (Pipelines.ActionStep stepData in steps)
                {
-                    // Compute child sibling scope names for post steps
-                    // We need to use the main's scope to keep step context correct, makes inputs flow correctly
-                    string siblingScopeName = null;
-                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ExecutionContext.SiblingScopeName) && stage == ActionRunStage.Post)
-                    {
-                        siblingScopeName = $"{ExecutionContext.SiblingScopeName}.{stepData.ContextName}";
-                    }
-
                    var step = HostContext.CreateService<IActionRunner>();
                    step.Action = stepData;
                    step.Stage = stage;
                    step.Condition = stepData.Condition;
                    ExecutionContext.Root.EmbeddedIntraActionState.TryGetValue(step.Action.Id, out var intraActionState);
-                    step.ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.CreateEmbeddedChild(childScopeName, stepData.ContextName, step.Action.Id, stage, intraActionState: intraActionState, siblingScopeName: siblingScopeName);
+                    step.ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.CreateEmbeddedChild(childScopeName, stepData.ContextName, step.Action.Id, intraActionState: intraActionState);
                    step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionValues["inputs"] = inputsData;
-                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ExecutionContext.SiblingScopeName))
-                    {
-                        step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionValues["steps"] = ExecutionContext.Global.StepsContext.GetScope(ExecutionContext.SiblingScopeName);
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
                    step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionValues["steps"] = ExecutionContext.Global.StepsContext.GetScope(childScopeName);
-                    }

                    // Shallow copy github context
                    var gitHubContext = step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionValues["github"] as GitHubContext;
@@ -168,7 +153,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                }

                // Run embedded steps
-                await RunStepsAsync(embeddedSteps, stage);
+                await RunStepsAsync(embeddedSteps);

                // Set outputs
                ExecutionContext.ExpressionValues["inputs"] = inputsData;
@@ -227,7 +212,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            }
        }

-        private async Task RunStepsAsync(List<IStep> embeddedSteps, ActionRunStage stage)
+        private async Task RunStepsAsync(List<IStep> embeddedSteps)
        {
            ArgUtil.NotNull(embeddedSteps, nameof(embeddedSteps));

@@ -242,10 +227,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionFunctions.Add(new FunctionInfo<FailureFunction>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Failure, 0, 0));
                step.ExecutionContext.ExpressionFunctions.Add(new FunctionInfo<SuccessFunction>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Success, 0, 0));

-                // Set action_status to the success of the current composite action
-                var actionResult = ExecutionContext.Result?.ToActionResult() ?? ActionResult.Success;
-                step.ExecutionContext.SetGitHubContext("action_status", actionResult.ToString());
-
                // Initialize env context
                Trace.Info("Initialize Env context for embedded step");
 #if OS_WINDOWS
@@ -378,14 +359,14 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                    {
                        // Condition is false
                        Trace.Info("Skipping step due to condition evaluation.");
-                        SetStepConclusion(step, TaskResult.Skipped);
+                        step.ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Skipped;
                        continue;
                    }
                    else if (conditionEvaluateError != null)
                    {
                        // Condition error
                        step.ExecutionContext.Error(conditionEvaluateError);
-                        SetStepConclusion(step, TaskResult.Failed);
+                        step.ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Failed;
                        ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Failed;
                        break;
                    }
@@ -393,7 +374,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                    {
                        await RunStepAsync(step);
                    }
-                
                }
                finally
                {
@@ -403,15 +383,15 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                        jobCancelRegister = null;
                    }
                }
+
                // Check failed or canceled
                if (step.ExecutionContext.Result == TaskResult.Failed || step.ExecutionContext.Result == TaskResult.Canceled)
                {
                    Trace.Info($"Update job result with current composite step result '{step.ExecutionContext.Result}'.");
-                    ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResultUtil.MergeTaskResults(ExecutionContext.Result, step.ExecutionContext.Result.Value);
+                    ExecutionContext.Result = step.ExecutionContext.Result;
+                    ExecutionContext.Root.Result = TaskResultUtil.MergeTaskResults(ExecutionContext.Root.Result, step.ExecutionContext.Result.Value);
+                    ExecutionContext.Root.JobContext.Status = ExecutionContext.Root.Result?.ToActionResult();
                }
-
-                // Update context
-                SetStepsContext(step);
            }
        }

@@ -433,13 +413,13 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                {
                    Trace.Error($"Caught timeout exception from step: {ex.Message}");
                    step.ExecutionContext.Error("The action has timed out.");
-                    SetStepConclusion(step, TaskResult.Failed);
+                    step.ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Failed;
                }
                else
                {
                    Trace.Error($"Caught cancellation exception from step: {ex}");
                    step.ExecutionContext.Error(ex);
-                    SetStepConclusion(step, TaskResult.Canceled);
+                    step.ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Canceled;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
@@ -447,32 +427,17 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                // Log the error and fail the step
                Trace.Error($"Caught exception from step: {ex}");
                step.ExecutionContext.Error(ex);
-                SetStepConclusion(step, TaskResult.Failed);
+                step.ExecutionContext.Result = TaskResult.Failed;
            }

            // Merge execution context result with command result
            if (step.ExecutionContext.CommandResult != null)
            {
-                SetStepConclusion(step, Common.Util.TaskResultUtil.MergeTaskResults(step.ExecutionContext.Result, step.ExecutionContext.CommandResult.Value));
+                step.ExecutionContext.Result = Common.Util.TaskResultUtil.MergeTaskResults(step.ExecutionContext.Result, step.ExecutionContext.CommandResult.Value);
            }

            Trace.Info($"Step result: {step.ExecutionContext.Result}");
            step.ExecutionContext.Debug($"Finished: {step.DisplayName}");
        }
-
-        private void SetStepConclusion(IStep step, TaskResult result)
-        {
-            step.ExecutionContext.Result = result;
-            SetStepsContext(step);
-        }
-        private void SetStepsContext(IStep step)
-        {
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(step.ExecutionContext.ContextName) && !step.ExecutionContext.ContextName.StartsWith("__", StringComparison.Ordinal))
-            {
-                // TODO: when we support continue on error, we may need to do logic here to change conclusion based on the continue on error result
-                step.ExecutionContext.Global.StepsContext.SetOutcome(step.ExecutionContext.ScopeName, step.ExecutionContext.ContextName, (step.ExecutionContext.Result ?? TaskResult.Succeeded).ToActionResult());
-                step.ExecutionContext.Global.StepsContext.SetConclusion(step.ExecutionContext.ScopeName, step.ExecutionContext.ContextName, (step.ExecutionContext.Result ?? TaskResult.Succeeded).ToActionResult());
-            }
-        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/ContainerActionHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/ContainerActionHandler.cs
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                var dockerFile = Path.Combine(ActionDirectory, Data.Image);
                ArgUtil.File(dockerFile, nameof(Data.Image));

-                ExecutionContext.Output($"##[group]Building docker image");
-                ExecutionContext.Output($"Dockerfile for action: '{dockerFile}'.");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? "Building docker image" : $"##[group]Building docker image");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"Dockerfile for action: '{dockerFile}'.");
                var imageName = $"{dockerManager.DockerInstanceLabel}:{ExecutionContext.Id.ToString("N")}";
                var buildExitCode = await dockerManager.DockerBuild(
                    ExecutionContext,
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                    dockerFile,
                    Directory.GetParent(dockerFile).FullName,
                    imageName);
-                ExecutionContext.Output("##[endgroup]");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? "" : "##[endgroup]");

                if (buildExitCode != 0)
                {
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            if (systemConnection.Data.TryGetValue("GenerateIdTokenUrl", out var generateIdTokenUrl) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(generateIdTokenUrl))
            {
                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL"] = generateIdTokenUrl;
-                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN"] = systemConnection.Authorization.Parameters[EndpointAuthorizationParameters.AccessToken];
            }

            foreach (var variable in this.Environment)
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/Handler.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/Handler.cs
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            
            if (stage == ActionRunStage.Post)
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output($"Post job cleanup.");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"Post job cleanup.");
                return;
            }

@@ -118,30 +118,30 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                groupName = "Action details";
            }

-            ExecutionContext.Output($"##[group]{groupName}");
+            ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? groupName : $"##[group]{groupName}");

            if (this.Inputs?.Count > 0)
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output("with:");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails("with:");
                foreach (var input in this.Inputs)
                {
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(input.Value))
                    {
-                        ExecutionContext.Output($"  {input.Key}: {input.Value}");
+                        ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"  {input.Key}: {input.Value}");
                    }
                }
            }

            if (this.Environment?.Count > 0)
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output("env:");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails("env:");
                foreach (var env in this.Environment)
                {
-                    ExecutionContext.Output($"  {env.Key}: {env.Value}");
+                    ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"  {env.Key}: {env.Value}");
                }
            }

-            ExecutionContext.Output("##[endgroup]");
+            ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? "" : "##[endgroup]");
        }

        public override void Initialize(IHostContext hostContext)
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/NodeScriptActionHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/NodeScriptActionHandler.cs
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            if (systemConnection.Data.TryGetValue("GenerateIdTokenUrl", out var generateIdTokenUrl) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(generateIdTokenUrl))
            {
                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL"] = generateIdTokenUrl;
-                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN"] = systemConnection.Authorization.Parameters[EndpointAuthorizationParameters.AccessToken];
            }

            // Resolve the target script.
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                    HasPreStep = Data.HasPre,
                    HasPostStep = Data.HasPost,
                    IsEmbedded = ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded,
-                    Type = Data.NodeVersion
+                    Type = "node12"
                };
                ExecutionContext.Root.ActionsStepsTelemetry.Add(telemetry);
            }
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                workingDirectory = HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Work);
            }

-            var nodeRuntimeVersion = await StepHost.DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(ExecutionContext, Data.NodeVersion);
+            var nodeRuntimeVersion = await StepHost.DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(ExecutionContext);
            string file = Path.Combine(HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Externals), nodeRuntimeVersion, "bin", $"node{IOUtil.ExeExtension}");

            // Format the arguments passed to node.
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/ScriptHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/ScriptHandler.cs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                    firstLine = firstLine.Substring(0, firstNewLine);
                }

-                ExecutionContext.Output($"##[group]Run {firstLine}");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? $"Run {firstLine}" : $"##[group]Run {firstLine}");
            }
            else
            {
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            foreach (var line in multiLines)
            {
                // Bright Cyan color
-                ExecutionContext.Output($"\x1b[36;1m{line}\x1b[0m");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"\x1b[36;1m{line}\x1b[0m");
            }

            string argFormat;
@@ -110,23 +110,23 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(shellCommandPath))
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output($"shell: {shellCommandPath} {argFormat}");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"shell: {shellCommandPath} {argFormat}");
            }
            else
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output($"shell: {shellCommand} {argFormat}");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"shell: {shellCommand} {argFormat}");
            }

            if (this.Environment?.Count > 0)
            {
-                ExecutionContext.Output("env:");
+                ExecutionContext.WriteDetails("env:");
                foreach (var env in this.Environment)
                {
-                    ExecutionContext.Output($"  {env.Key}: {env.Value}");
+                    ExecutionContext.WriteDetails($"  {env.Key}: {env.Value}");
                }
            }

-            ExecutionContext.Output("##[endgroup]");
+            ExecutionContext.WriteDetails(ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded ? "" : "##[endgroup]");
        }

        public async Task RunAsync(ActionRunStage stage)
@@ -147,8 +147,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            // Add Telemetry to JobContext to send with JobCompleteMessage
            if (stage == ActionRunStage.Main)
            {
-                var telemetry = new ActionsStepTelemetry
-                {
+                var telemetry = new ActionsStepTelemetry {
                    IsEmbedded = ExecutionContext.IsEmbedded,
                    Type = "run",
                };
@@ -277,13 +276,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                fileName = node12;
            }
 #endif
-            var systemConnection = ExecutionContext.Global.Endpoints.Single(x => string.Equals(x.Name, WellKnownServiceEndpointNames.SystemVssConnection, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
-            if (systemConnection.Data.TryGetValue("GenerateIdTokenUrl", out var generateIdTokenUrl) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(generateIdTokenUrl))
-            {
-                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL"] = generateIdTokenUrl;
-                Environment["ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN"] = systemConnection.Authorization.Parameters[EndpointAuthorizationParameters.AccessToken];
-            }
-
            ExecutionContext.Debug($"{fileName} {arguments}");

            using (var stdoutManager = new OutputManager(ExecutionContext, ActionCommandManager))
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/StepHost.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Handlers/StepHost.cs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers

        string ResolvePathForStepHost(string path);

-        Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext, string preferredVersion);
+        Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext);

        Task<int> ExecuteAsync(string workingDirectory,
                               string fileName,
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            return path;
        }

-        public Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext, string preferredVersion)
+        public Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext)
        {
-            return Task.FromResult<string>(preferredVersion);
+            return Task.FromResult<string>("node12");
        }

        public async Task<int> ExecuteAsync(string workingDirectory,
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
            }
        }

-        public async Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext, string preferredVersion)
+        public async Task<string> DetermineNodeRuntimeVersion(IExecutionContext executionContext)
        {
            // Best effort to determine a compatible node runtime
            // There may be more variation in which libraries are linked than just musl/glibc,
@@ -148,14 +148,14 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker.Handlers
                            var msg = $"JavaScript Actions in Alpine containers are only supported on x64 Linux runners. Detected {os} {arch}";
                            throw new NotSupportedException(msg);
                        }
-                        nodeExternal = $"{preferredVersion}_alpine";
+                        nodeExternal = "node12_alpine";
                        executionContext.Debug($"Container distribution is alpine. Running JavaScript Action with external tool: {nodeExternal}");
                        return nodeExternal;
                    }
                }
            }
            // Optimistically use the default
-            nodeExternal = preferredVersion;
+            nodeExternal = "node12";
            executionContext.Debug($"Running JavaScript Action with default external tool: {nodeExternal}");
            return nodeExternal;
        }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/IssueMatcher.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/IssueMatcher.cs
@@ -350,7 +350,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                case "":
                case "ERROR":
                case "WARNING":
-                case "NOTICE":
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new ArgumentException($"Matcher '{_owner}' contains unexpected default severity '{_severity}'");
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/JobExtension.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/JobExtension.cs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            ArgUtil.NotNull(message, nameof(message));

            // Create a new timeline record for 'Set up job'
-            IExecutionContext context = jobContext.CreateChild(Guid.NewGuid(), "Set up job", $"{nameof(JobExtension)}_Init", null, null, ActionRunStage.Pre);
+            IExecutionContext context = jobContext.CreateChild(Guid.NewGuid(), "Set up job", $"{nameof(JobExtension)}_Init", null, null);

            List<IStep> preJobSteps = new List<IStep>();
            List<IStep> jobSteps = new List<IStep>();
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        {
                            context.Output($"##[group]GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions");
                            var permissions = StringUtil.ConvertFromJson<Dictionary<string, string>>(tokenPermissions);
-                            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> entry in permissions)
+                            foreach(KeyValuePair<string, string> entry in permissions)
                            {
                                context.Output($"{entry.Key}: {entry.Value}");
                            }
@@ -142,12 +142,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        Trace.Error(ex);
                    }

-                    var secretSource = context.GetGitHubContext("secret_source");
-                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(secretSource))
-                    {
-                        context.Output($"Secret source: {secretSource}");
-                    }
-
                    var repoFullName = context.GetGitHubContext("repository");
                    ArgUtil.NotNull(repoFullName, nameof(repoFullName));
                    context.Debug($"Primary repository: {repoFullName}");
@@ -312,13 +306,13 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                            JobExtensionRunner extensionStep = step as JobExtensionRunner;
                            ArgUtil.NotNull(extensionStep, extensionStep.DisplayName);
                            Guid stepId = Guid.NewGuid();
-                            extensionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(stepId, extensionStep.DisplayName, stepId.ToString("N"), null, stepId.ToString("N"), ActionRunStage.Pre);
+                            extensionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(stepId, extensionStep.DisplayName, null, null, stepId.ToString("N"));
                        }
                        else if (step is IActionRunner actionStep)
                        {
                            ArgUtil.NotNull(actionStep, step.DisplayName);
                            Guid stepId = Guid.NewGuid();
-                            actionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(stepId, actionStep.DisplayName, stepId.ToString("N"), null, null, ActionRunStage.Pre, intraActionStates[actionStep.Action.Id]);
+                            actionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(stepId, actionStep.DisplayName, stepId.ToString("N"), null, null, intraActionStates[actionStep.Action.Id]);
                        }
                    }

@@ -329,7 +323,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                        {
                            ArgUtil.NotNull(actionStep, step.DisplayName);
                            intraActionStates.TryGetValue(actionStep.Action.Id, out var intraActionState);
-                            actionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(actionStep.Action.Id, actionStep.DisplayName, actionStep.Action.Name, null, actionStep.Action.ContextName, ActionRunStage.Main, intraActionState);
+                            actionStep.ExecutionContext = jobContext.CreateChild(actionStep.Action.Id, actionStep.DisplayName, actionStep.Action.Name, null, actionStep.Action.ContextName, intraActionState);
                        }
                    }

@@ -400,7 +394,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            ArgUtil.NotNull(jobContext, nameof(jobContext));

            // create a new timeline record node for 'Finalize job'
-            IExecutionContext context = jobContext.CreateChild(Guid.NewGuid(), "Complete job", $"{nameof(JobExtension)}_Final", null, null, ActionRunStage.Post);
+            IExecutionContext context = jobContext.CreateChild(Guid.NewGuid(), "Complete job", $"{nameof(JobExtension)}_Final", null, null);
            using (var register = jobContext.CancellationToken.Register(() => { context.CancelToken(); }))
            {
                try
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/JobRunner.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/JobRunner.cs
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
-using System;
+using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using Pipelines = GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines;
+using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
+using GitHub.Services.Common;
+using GitHub.Services.WebApi;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
-using System.Net.Http;
-using System.Text;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi;
+using System.Net.Http;
 using GitHub.Runner.Common;
-using GitHub.Runner.Common.Util;
 using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
-using GitHub.Services.Common;
-using GitHub.Services.WebApi;
-using Pipelines = GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
 {
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
    public sealed class JobRunner : RunnerService, IJobRunner
    {
        private IJobServerQueue _jobServerQueue;
-        private RunnerSettings _runnerSettings;
        private ITempDirectoryManager _tempDirectoryManager;

        public async Task<TaskResult> RunAsync(Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage message, CancellationToken jobRequestCancellationToken)
@@ -107,10 +105,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                }

                jobContext.SetRunnerContext("os", VarUtil.OS);
-                jobContext.SetRunnerContext("arch", VarUtil.OSArchitecture);
-
-                _runnerSettings = HostContext.GetService<IConfigurationStore>().GetSettings();
-                jobContext.SetRunnerContext("name", _runnerSettings.AgentName);

                string toolsDirectory = HostContext.GetDirectory(WellKnownDirectory.Tools);
                Directory.CreateDirectory(toolsDirectory);
@@ -151,16 +145,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                Trace.Verbose($"Job steps: '{string.Join(", ", jobSteps.Select(x => x.DisplayName))}'");
                HostContext.WritePerfCounter($"WorkerJobInitialized_{message.RequestId.ToString()}");

-                if (systemConnection.Data.TryGetValue("GenerateIdTokenUrl", out var generateIdTokenUrl) &&
-                    !string.IsNullOrEmpty(generateIdTokenUrl))
-                {
-                    // Server won't issue ID_TOKEN for non-inprogress job.
-                    // If the job is trying to use OIDC feature, we want the job to be marked as in-progress before running any customer's steps as much as we can.
-                    // Timeline record update background process runs every 500ms, so delay 1000ms is enough for most of the cases
-                    Trace.Info($"Waiting for job to be marked as started.");
-                    await Task.WhenAny(_jobServerQueue.JobRecordUpdated.Task, Task.Delay(1000));
-                }
-
                // Run all job steps
                Trace.Info("Run all job steps.");
                var stepsRunner = HostContext.GetService<IStepsRunner>();
@@ -210,53 +194,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            jobContext.Debug($"Finishing: {message.JobDisplayName}");
            TaskResult result = jobContext.Complete(taskResult);

-            if (_runnerSettings.DisableUpdate == true)
-            {
-                try
-                {
-                    var currentVersion = new PackageVersion(BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.Version);
-                    ServiceEndpoint systemConnection = message.Resources.Endpoints.Single(x => string.Equals(x.Name, WellKnownServiceEndpointNames.SystemVssConnection, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
-                    VssCredentials serverCredential = VssUtil.GetVssCredential(systemConnection);
-
-                    var runnerServer = HostContext.GetService<IRunnerServer>();
-                    await runnerServer.ConnectAsync(systemConnection.Url, serverCredential);
-                    var serverPackages = await runnerServer.GetPackagesAsync("agent", BuildConstants.RunnerPackage.PackageName, 5, includeToken: false, cancellationToken: CancellationToken.None);
-                    if (serverPackages.Count > 0)
-                    {
-                        serverPackages = serverPackages.OrderByDescending(x => x.Version).ToList();
-                        Trace.Info($"Newer packages {StringUtil.ConvertToJson(serverPackages.Select(x => x.Version.ToString()))}");
-
-                        var warnOnFailedJob = false; // any minor/patch version behind.
-                        var warnOnOldRunnerVersion = false; // >= 2 minor version behind
-                        if (serverPackages.Any(x => x.Version.CompareTo(currentVersion) > 0))
-                        {
-                            Trace.Info($"Current runner version {currentVersion} is behind the latest runner version {serverPackages[0].Version}.");
-                            warnOnFailedJob = true;
-                        }
-
-                        if (serverPackages.Where(x => x.Version.Major == currentVersion.Major && x.Version.Minor > currentVersion.Minor).Count() > 1)
-                        {
-                            Trace.Info($"Current runner version {currentVersion} is way behind the latest runner version {serverPackages[0].Version}.");
-                            warnOnOldRunnerVersion = true;
-                        }
-
-                        if (result == TaskResult.Failed && warnOnFailedJob)
-                        {
-                            jobContext.Warning($"This job failure may be caused by using an out of date self-hosted runner. You are currently using runner version {currentVersion}. Please update to the latest version {serverPackages[0].Version}");
-                        }
-                        else if (warnOnOldRunnerVersion)
-                        {
-                            jobContext.Warning($"This self-hosted runner is currently using runner version {currentVersion}. This version is out of date. Please update to the latest version {serverPackages[0].Version}");
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (Exception ex)
-                {
-                    // Ignore any error since suggest runner update is best effort.
-                    Trace.Error($"Caught exception during runner version check: {ex}");
-                }
-            }
-
            try
            {
                await ShutdownQueue(throwOnFailure: true);
@@ -278,15 +215,8 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                return result;
            }

-            // Load any upgrade telemetry
-            LoadFromTelemetryFile(jobContext.JobTelemetry);
-
-            // Make sure we don't submit secrets as telemetry
-            MaskTelemetrySecrets(jobContext.JobTelemetry);
-
            Trace.Info("Raising job completed event.");
-            var jobCompletedEvent = new JobCompletedEvent(message.RequestId, message.JobId, result, jobContext.JobOutputs, jobContext.ActionsEnvironment, jobContext.ActionsStepsTelemetry, jobContext.JobTelemetry);
-
+            var jobCompletedEvent = new JobCompletedEvent(message.RequestId, message.JobId, result, jobContext.JobOutputs, jobContext.ActionsEnvironment, jobContext.ActionsStepsTelemetry);

            var completeJobRetryLimit = 5;
            var exceptions = new List<Exception>();
@@ -330,38 +260,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
            throw new AggregateException(exceptions);
        }

-        private void MaskTelemetrySecrets(List<JobTelemetry> jobTelemetry)
-        {
-            foreach (var telemetryItem in jobTelemetry)
-            {
-                telemetryItem.Message = HostContext.SecretMasker.MaskSecrets(telemetryItem.Message);
-            }
-        }
-
-        private void LoadFromTelemetryFile(List<JobTelemetry> jobTelemetry)
-        {
-            try
-            {
-                var telemetryFilePath = HostContext.GetConfigFile(WellKnownConfigFile.Telemetry);
-                if (File.Exists(telemetryFilePath))
-                {
-                    var telemetryData = File.ReadAllText(telemetryFilePath, Encoding.UTF8);
-                    var telemetry = new JobTelemetry
-                    {
-                        Message = $"Runner File Telemetry:\n{telemetryData}",
-                        Type = JobTelemetryType.General
-                    };
-                    jobTelemetry.Add(telemetry);
-                    IOUtil.DeleteFile(telemetryFilePath);
-                }
-            }
-            catch (Exception e)
-            {
-                Trace.Error("Error when trying to load telemetry from telemetry file");
-                Trace.Error(e);
-            }
-        }
-
        private async Task ShutdownQueue(bool throwOnFailure)
        {
            if (_jobServerQueue != null)
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Runner.Worker.csproj
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Runner.Worker.csproj
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x64;win-x86;linux-x64;linux-arm64;linux-arm;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
    <TargetLatestRuntimePatch>true</TargetLatestRuntimePatch>
+    <AssetTargetFallback>portable-net45+win8</AssetTargetFallback>
    <NoWarn>NU1701;NU1603</NoWarn>
    <Version>$(Version)</Version>
-    <PredefinedCulturesOnly>false</PredefinedCulturesOnly>
-    <PublishReadyToRunComposite>true</PublishReadyToRunComposite>
+    <TieredCompilationQuickJit>true</TieredCompilationQuickJit>
+    <PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/Worker.cs
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/Worker.cs
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using GitHub.Services.WebApi;
 using GitHub.Runner.Common;
 using GitHub.Runner.Sdk;
-using System.Text;

 namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
 {
@@ -25,8 +24,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
        private ManualResetEvent _completedCommand = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        
        // Do not mask the values of these secrets
-        private static HashSet<String> SecretVariableMaskWhitelist = new HashSet<String>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-        {
+        private static HashSet<String> SecretVariableMaskWhitelist = new HashSet<String>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase){ 
            Constants.Variables.Actions.StepDebug,
            Constants.Variables.Actions.RunnerDebug
            };
@@ -44,7 +42,6 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                ArgUtil.NotNullOrEmpty(pipeOut, nameof(pipeOut));
                VssUtil.InitializeVssClientSettings(HostContext.UserAgents, HostContext.WebProxy);
                var jobRunner = HostContext.CreateService<IJobRunner>();
-                var terminal = HostContext.GetService<ITerminal>();

                using (var channel = HostContext.CreateService<IProcessChannel>())
                using (var jobRequestCancellationToken = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(HostContext.RunnerShutdownToken))
@@ -66,22 +63,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                    Trace.Info("Message received.");
                    ArgUtil.Equal(MessageType.NewJobRequest, channelMessage.MessageType, nameof(channelMessage.MessageType));
                    ArgUtil.NotNullOrEmpty(channelMessage.Body, nameof(channelMessage.Body));
-                    Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage jobMessage = null;
-                    try
-                    {
-                        jobMessage = StringUtil.ConvertFromJson<Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage>(channelMessage.Body);
-                    }
-                    catch (JsonReaderException ex)
-                    {
-                        if (channelMessage.Body.Length > ex.LinePosition + 10)
-                        {
-                            var errorChunk = channelMessage.Body.Substring(ex.LinePosition - 10, 20);
-                            terminal.WriteError($"Worker received invalid Json at position '{ex.LinePosition}': {errorChunk} ({Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(errorChunk))})");
-                        }
-
-                        throw;
-                    }
-
+                    var jobMessage = StringUtil.ConvertFromJson<Pipelines.AgentJobRequestMessage>(channelMessage.Body);
                    ArgUtil.NotNull(jobMessage, nameof(jobMessage));
                    HostContext.WritePerfCounter($"WorkerJobMessageReceived_{jobMessage.RequestId.ToString()}");

@@ -156,10 +138,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Runner.Worker
                    HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(value);

                    // Also add each individual line. Typically individual lines are processed from STDOUT of child processes.
-                    var split = value.Split(new[] { '\r', '\n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries | StringSplitOptions.TrimEntries);
+                    var split = value.Split(new[] { '\r', '\n' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                    foreach (var item in split)
                    {
-                        HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(item);
+                        HostContext.SecretMasker.AddValue(item.Trim());
                    }
                }
            }
--- a/src/Runner.Worker/action_yaml.json
+++ b/src/Runner.Worker/action_yaml.json
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
        "runs": {
            "one-of": [
                "container-runs",
-                "node-runs",
+                "node12-runs",
                "plugin-runs",
                "composite-runs"
            ]
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
                "loose-value-type": "string"
            }
        },
-        "node-runs": {
+        "node12-runs": {
            "mapping": {
                "properties": {
                    "using": "non-empty-string",
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
                "item-type": "composite-step"
            }
        },
-        "composite-step": {
+        "composite-step":{
            "one-of": [
                "run-step",
                "uses-step" 
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@
                "properties": {
                    "name": "string-steps-context",
                    "id": "non-empty-string",
-                    "if": "step-if",
                    "run": {
                        "type": "string-steps-context",
                        "required": true
@@ -142,7 +141,6 @@
                "properties": {
                    "name": "string-steps-context",
                    "id": "non-empty-string",
-                    "if": "step-if",
                    "uses": {
                        "type": "non-empty-string",
                        "required": true
@@ -218,24 +216,6 @@
                "loose-value-type": "string"
            }
        },
-        "step-if": {
-            "context": [
-              "github",
-              "inputs",
-              "strategy",
-              "matrix",
-              "steps",
-              "job",
-              "runner",
-              "env",
-              "always(0,0)",
-              "failure(0,0)",
-              "cancelled(0,0)",
-              "success(0,0)",
-              "hashFiles(1,255)"
-            ],
-            "string": {}
-        },
        "step-with": {
            "context": [
                "github",
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Authentication/HttpRequestMessageWrapper.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Authentication/HttpRequestMessageWrapper.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
            }
        }

+        public IDictionary<string, object> Properties
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return m_request.Properties;
+            }
+        }
+
        IEnumerable<String> IHttpHeaders.GetValues(String name)
        {
            IEnumerable<String> values;
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Authentication/IHttpRequest.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Authentication/IHttpRequest.cs
@@ -14,5 +14,10 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
        {
            get;
        }
+
+        IDictionary<string, object> Properties
+        {
+            get;
+        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Diagnostics/HttpRequestMessageExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/Diagnostics/HttpRequestMessageExtensions.cs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common.Diagnostics
        public static VssTraceActivity GetActivity(this HttpRequestMessage message)
        {
            Object traceActivity;
-            if (!message.Options.TryGetValue(VssTraceActivity.PropertyName, out traceActivity))
+            if (!message.Properties.TryGetValue(VssTraceActivity.PropertyName, out traceActivity))
            {
                return VssTraceActivity.Empty;
            }
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpMessageHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpMessageHandler.cs
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
            }

            // Add ourselves to the message so the underlying token issuers may use it if necessary
-            request.Options.Set(new HttpRequestOptionsKey<VssHttpMessageHandler>(VssHttpMessageHandler.PropertyName), this);
+            request.Properties[VssHttpMessageHandler.PropertyName] = this;

            Boolean succeeded = false;
            Boolean lastResponseDemandedProxyAuth = false;
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
            // Read the completion option provided by the caller. If we don't find the property then we
            // assume it is OK to buffer by default.
            HttpCompletionOption completionOption;
-            if (!request.Options.TryGetValue(VssHttpRequestSettings.HttpCompletionOptionPropertyName, out completionOption))
+            if (!request.Properties.TryGetValue(VssHttpRequestSettings.HttpCompletionOptionPropertyName, out completionOption))
            {
                completionOption = HttpCompletionOption.ResponseContentRead;
            }
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo.cs
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
        public static void SetTraceInfo(HttpRequestMessage message, VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo traceInfo)
        {
            object existingTraceInfo;
-            if (!message.Options.TryGetValue(TfsTraceInfoKey, out existingTraceInfo))
+            if (!message.Properties.TryGetValue(TfsTraceInfoKey, out existingTraceInfo))
            {
-                message.Options.Set(new HttpRequestOptionsKey<VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo>(TfsTraceInfoKey), traceInfo);
+                message.Properties.Add(TfsTraceInfoKey, traceInfo);
            }
        }

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
        {
            VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo traceInfo = null;

-            if (message.Options.TryGetValue(TfsTraceInfoKey, out object traceInfoObject))
+            if (message.Properties.TryGetValue(TfsTraceInfoKey, out object traceInfoObject))
            {
                traceInfo = traceInfoObject as VssHttpMessageHandlerTraceInfo;
            }
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpRequestSettings.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpRequestSettings.cs
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ using System.Text;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Net.Security;
 using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
-using GitHub.Services.Common;

 namespace GitHub.Services.Common
 {
@@ -292,12 +291,12 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
        protected internal virtual Boolean ApplyTo(HttpRequestMessage request)
        {
            // Make sure we only apply the settings to the request once
-            if (request.Options.TryGetValue<object>(PropertyName, out _))
+            if (request.Properties.ContainsKey(PropertyName))
            {
                return false;
            }

-            request.Options.Set(new HttpRequestOptionsKey<VssHttpRequestSettings>(PropertyName), this);
+            request.Properties.Add(PropertyName, this);

            if (this.AcceptLanguages != null && this.AcceptLanguages.Count > 0)
            {
--- a/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpRetryMessageHandler.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssHttpRetryMessageHandler.cs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common
            // Allow overriding default retry options per request
            VssHttpRetryOptions retryOptions = m_retryOptions;
            object retryOptionsObject;
-            if (request.Options.TryGetValue(HttpRetryOptionsKey, out retryOptionsObject)) // NETSTANDARD compliant, TryGetValue<T> is not
+            if (request.Properties.TryGetValue(HttpRetryOptionsKey, out retryOptionsObject)) // NETSTANDARD compliant, TryGetValue<T> is not
            {
                // Fallback to default options if object of unexpected type was passed
                retryOptions = retryOptionsObject as VssHttpRetryOptions ?? m_retryOptions;
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ namespace GitHub.Services.Common

            IVssHttpRetryInfo retryInfo = null;
            object retryInfoObject;
-            if (request.Options.TryGetValue(HttpRetryInfoKey, out retryInfoObject)) // NETSTANDARD compliant, TryGetValue<T> is not
+            if (request.Properties.TryGetValue(HttpRetryInfoKey, out retryInfoObject)) // NETSTANDARD compliant, TryGetValue<T> is not
            {
                retryInfo = retryInfoObject as IVssHttpRetryInfo;
            }
--- a/src/Sdk/DTGenerated/Generated/TaskAgentHttpClientBase.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTGenerated/Generated/TaskAgentHttpClientBase.cs
@@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi
        /// <param name="poolId"></param>
        /// <param name="agentId"></param>
        /// <param name="currentState"></param>
-        /// <param name="updateTrace"></param>
        /// <param name="userState"></param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken">The cancellation token to cancel operation.</param>
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
@@ -776,7 +775,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi
            int poolId,
            int agentId,
            string currentState,
-            string updateTrace,
            object userState = null,
            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
@@ -786,7 +784,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi

            List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> queryParams = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
            queryParams.Add("currentState", currentState);
-            queryParams.Add("updateTrace", updateTrace);

            return SendAsync<TaskAgent>(
                httpMethod,
@@ -797,5 +794,65 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi
                userState: userState,
                cancellationToken: cancellationToken);
        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// [Preview API]
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="poolId"></param>
+        /// <param name="agentId"></param>
+        /// <param name="userState"></param>
+        /// <param name="cancellationToken">The cancellation token to cancel operation.</param>
+        public Task<String> GetAgentAuthUrlAsync(
+            int poolId,
+            int agentId,
+            object userState = null,
+            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            HttpMethod httpMethod = new HttpMethod("GET");
+            Guid locationId = new Guid("a82a119c-1e46-44b6-8d75-c82a79cf975b");
+            object routeValues = new { poolId = poolId, agentId = agentId };
+
+            return SendAsync<String>(
+                httpMethod,
+                locationId,
+                routeValues: routeValues,
+                version: new ApiResourceVersion(6.0, 1),
+                userState: userState,
+                cancellationToken: cancellationToken);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// [Preview API]
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="poolId"></param>
+        /// <param name="agentId"></param>
+        /// <param name="error"></param>
+        /// <param name="userState"></param>
+        /// <param name="cancellationToken">The cancellation token to cancel operation.</param>
+        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
+        public virtual async Task ReportAgentAuthUrlMigrationErrorAsync(
+            int poolId,
+            int agentId,
+            string error,
+            object userState = null,
+            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            HttpMethod httpMethod = new HttpMethod("POST");
+            Guid locationId = new Guid("a82a119c-1e46-44b6-8d75-c82a79cf975b");
+            object routeValues = new { poolId = poolId, agentId = agentId };
+            HttpContent content = new ObjectContent<string>(error, new VssJsonMediaTypeFormatter(true));
+
+            using (HttpResponseMessage response = await SendAsync(
+                httpMethod,
+                locationId,
+                routeValues: routeValues,
+                version: new ApiResourceVersion(6.0, 1),
+                userState: userState,
+                cancellationToken: cancellationToken,
+                content: content).ConfigureAwait(false))
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+        }
    }
 }
--- a/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTLogging/Logging/ValueEncoders.cs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 using System.ComponentModel;
 using System.Security;
 using System.Text;
-using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using Newtonsoft.Json;

 namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.Logging
@@ -81,65 +80,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.Logging
            return trimmed;
        }

-        public static String PowerShellPreAmpersandEscape(String value)
-        {
-            // if the secret is passed to PS as a command and it causes an error, sections of it can be surrounded by color codes
-            // or printed individually. 
-            
-            // The secret secretpart1&secretpart2&secretpart3 would be split into 2 sections:
-            // 'secretpart1&secretpart2&' and 'secretpart3'. This method masks for the first section.
-            
-            // The secret secretpart1&+secretpart2&secretpart3 would be split into 2 sections:
-            // 'secretpart1&+' and (no 's') 'ecretpart2&secretpart3'. This method masks for the first section.
-
-            var trimmed = string.Empty;
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) && value.Contains("&"))
-            {
-                var secretSection = string.Empty;
-                if (value.Contains("&+"))
-                {
-                    secretSection = value.Substring(0, value.IndexOf("&+") + "&+".Length);
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    secretSection = value.Substring(0, value.LastIndexOf("&") + "&".Length);
-                }
-
-                // Don't mask short secrets
-                if (secretSection.Length >= 6)
-                {
-                    trimmed = secretSection;
-                }
-            }
-
-            return trimmed;
-        }
-
-        public static String PowerShellPostAmpersandEscape(String value)
-        {
-            var trimmed = string.Empty;
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value) && value.Contains("&"))
-            {
-                var secretSection = string.Empty;
-                if (value.Contains("&+"))
-                {
-                    // +1 to skip the letter that got colored
-                    secretSection = value.Substring(value.IndexOf("&+") + "&+".Length + 1);
-                }
-                else
-                {
-                    secretSection = value.Substring(value.LastIndexOf("&") + "&".Length);
-                }
-
-                if (secretSection.Length >= 6)
-                {
-                    trimmed = secretSection;
-                }
-            }
-
-            return trimmed;
-        }
-
        private static string Base64StringEscapeShift(String value, int shift)
        {
            var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value);
--- a/src/Sdk/DTPipelines/Pipelines/ObjectTemplating/PipelineTemplateConverter.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTPipelines/Pipelines/ObjectTemplating/PipelineTemplateConverter.cs
@@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.Pipelines.ObjectTemplating
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Matrix),
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Steps),
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.GitHub),
-            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Inputs),
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Job),
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Runner),
            new NamedValueInfo<NoOperationNamedValue>(PipelineTemplateConstants.Env),
--- a/src/Sdk/DTWebApi/WebApi/ActionReference.cs
+++ b/src/Sdk/DTWebApi/WebApi/ActionReference.cs
@@ -18,12 +18,5 @@ namespace GitHub.DistributedTask.WebApi
            get;
            set;
        }
-
-        [DataMember]
-        public string Path
-        {
-            get;
-            set;
-        }
    }
 }
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