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v4.5.0: Backport-action v4.5.0

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What's Changed

This release introduces a new comment_style input with two options:

• legacy (default): one comment per target branch. This is the same behavior as you know from previous versions.
• summary: a single comment per workflow run that updates progressively as each target is processed. It links back to the workflow run, shows a status table for every target, and includes recovery hints for known failure modes (e.g. push permission denied, cherry-pick conflicts).

Here's what a summary comment looks like mid-run:

Backport-action is backporting this pull request in workflow run 15439584062.

Target	Status
stable/8.7	✅ Created #​612
stable/8.6	⚠️ Drafted with conflicts #​613
stable/8.5	❌ Failed
stable/8.4	➖ Skipped (PR already exists)
stable/8.3	⌛ Pending

❌ stable/8.5 — unable to cherry-pick

Tried to cherry-pick commits onto stable/8.5, but the cherry-pick failed.

Please cherry-pick the changes locally and resolve any conflicts.

git fetch origin stable/8.5
git worktree add -d .worktree/stable/8.5 origin/stable/8.5
cd .worktree/stable/8.5
git switch --create <backport-branch-name>
git cherry-pick -x a1b2c3d e4f5g6h

Opt in by adding comment_style: summary to your workflow:

- uses: korthout/backport-action@v4.5.0
  with:
    comment_style: summary

I'd love feedback on summary while it's opt-in. Drop a comment on #​611 with anything that's confusing, missing, or broken. Once it's proven stable in real workflows, I plan to make it the default and deprecate legacy in a future major release.

• Add summary comment style by @​korthout in korthout#611

Updated dependencies

• Update korthout/backport-action action to v4.4.0 by @​renovate[bot] in korthout#606
• Update dependency @​actions/github to v9.1.1 by @​renovate[bot] in korthout#614
• Update dependency vitest to v4.1.5 by @​renovate[bot] in korthout#612
• Update dependency @​actions/core to v3.0.1 by @​renovate[bot] in korthout#613
• Lock file maintenance by @​renovate[bot] in korthout#621

Maintenance changes

• ci(Mergify): configuration update by @​korthout in korthout#607
• Configure Mergify merge queue by @​korthout in korthout#608
• Use PAT for PR info workflow comments by @​korthout in korthout#615
• Skip PR info comment on Mergify merge queue PRs by @​korthout in korthout#618
• refactor: restructure backport.ts for readability by @​korthout in korthout#610
• ci: authenticate Publish/Release pushes via deploy key by @​korthout in korthout#622
• Automerge Renovate lock file maintenance PRs by @​korthout in korthout#623

Full Changelog: korthout/backport-action@v4.4.0...v4.5.0