The CircleCI Automation Actor will be used to attribute automated workflow and job cancelations on September 17th, 2024. This change will impact two functionalities:
- Auto-cancel redundant workflows
- Jobs canceled via the v1 Cancel Job API using a project token
This change is intended to better indicate that the action was performed by a machine.
Once the change is completed, the canceled_by field of the getWorkflowById and the listWorkflowJobs API response will return the CircleCI Automation Actor ID. You only need to take action if you rely on this field to have a static value.