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GitHub Actions adds background steps for concurrent job execution
GitHub Actions now supports concurrent step execution via a new 'background' keyword, allowing steps to run in parallel within a job. The feature includes 'wait', 'wait-all', and 'cancel' helpers for coordination, plus a 'parallel' wrapper for fan-out patterns. This eliminates the need for shell workarounds and reduces wall-clock time for independent tasks.
Meridian48 take
A long-overdue quality-of-life improvement for CI/CD workflows, but teams should watch for interleaved logs and runner resource contention.
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