build(deps): bump oxsecurity/megalinter from 9.3.0 to 9.4.0 in the patch-minor-action-updates group

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Bumps the patch-minor-action-updates group with 1 update: oxsecurity/megalinter.

Updates oxsecurity/megalinter from 9.3.0 to 9.4.0

Release notes

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v9.4.0

What's Changed

• Core

  • Improve files browsing performances (2 PRs)
  • Optimize parallel linter processing and improve grouping logic
  • Improve performance of listing .gitignored files by sending excluded directories to git ls-files
  • If there are more than 500 .gitignored files, advise to add more excluded directories using variable ADDITIONAL_EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES, to improve performances
  • Reduce redundant config lookups, environment copies, and dict rebuilds across config, linter, and utils modules
  • Cache subprocess environment per linter run and excluded directories per request
  • Optimize parallel linter result update from O(n²) to O(n)
  • Add support in the build of Docker images for linux/arm64 in compatible linters

• New linters

  • Add PYTHON_NBQA_MYPY for type-checking Jupyter notebooks using nbqa + mypy

• Disabled linters

  • LUA_SELENE: Kampfkarren/selene#662

• Linters enhancements

  • Use the official checkmake image by @​bdovaz
  • Spectral: Add sarif support to spectral by @​bdovaz
  • Spectral: Change cli_lint_mode to list_of_files to improve performances

• Fixes

  • Add support for SSH remote origins when building custom flavors (fixes: #6511)
  • Fix issue with plugins ignored when FLAVOR_SUGGESTIONS=false
  • Fix wrong tagging apply_fixes=True when linter has no fix options configured
  • Python mypy: Remove .ipynb from file extensions (mypy doesn't support notebooks directly) - fixes #6904
  • Fix operator precedence bug in pre_post_factory pre/post command logic
  • Fix file handle leak in GitleaksLinter
  • Fix variable name bug in utils.get_git_context_info
  • Minor fixes in logger, SqlFluffLinter, PowershellLinter, TrivyLinter

• Reporters

  • Add a link inviting to star MegaLinter
  • Display in the console reporter the working directory from which the commands are executed by @​bdovaz
  • Update WebHook reporter so it can send more events for a better integration with UI
  • When truncating long comments in markdown reports, keep the end of the text instead of the beginning (which usually contains less useful information)
  • In case GitHub Api returns 500, do not make the whole MegaLinter fail, display a warning instead
  • Azure Reporter: Use Azure DevOps Services REST API instead of unmaintained python wrapper lib

• Flavors

  • Custom flavor builder:
    • Add support for SSH remotes
    • Allow selection of platforms to build the custom flavor on (ex: linux/amd64, linux/arm64) and build compatible linters on these platforms
    • Build & release custom flavor builder image for linux/arm64

• Doc

  • JSON Schema: Add default values for file extensions and file names variables + improve descriptions

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Changelog

Sourced from oxsecurity/megalinter's changelog.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased] (beta, main branch content)

Note: Can be used with oxsecurity/megalinter@beta in your GitHub Action mega-linter.yml file, or with oxsecurity/megalinter:beta docker image

• Core

• New linters

• Disabled linters

• Deprecated linters

• Removed linters

• Media

• Linters enhancements

• Fixes

• Reporters

• Flavors

• Doc

• CI

• mega-linter-runner

• Linter versions upgrades (N)

  • isort from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1 on 2026-02-28

[v9.4.0] - 2026-02-28

• Core
  • Improve files browsing performances (2 PRs)
  • Optimize parallel linter processing and improve grouping logic
  • Improve performance of listing .gitignored files by sending excluded directories to git ls-files
  • If there are more than 500 .gitignored files, advise to add more excluded directories using variable ADDITIONAL_EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES, to improve performances
  • Reduce redundant config lookups, environment copies, and dict rebuilds across config, linter, and utils modules
  • Cache subprocess environment per linter run and excluded directories per request
  • Optimize parallel linter result update from O(n²) to O(n)

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Commits

• 8fbdead Release MegaLinter v9.4.0
• 9f605c4 Fix custom flavor builder workflow (#7306)
• b7dcb60 Update changelog to prepare release (#7304)
• 3077b04 chore(deps): update dependency regex to v2026.2.28 (#7303)
• edba876 [automation] Auto-update linters version, help and documentation (#7299)
• 07fb84d chore(deps): update dependency python-gitlab to v8.1.0 (#7302)
• 4d42e33 chore(deps): update dependency fastapi to v0.134.0 (#7301)
• 649726c chore(deps): update dependency rumdl to v0.1.32 (#7300)
• 768b5a3 chore(deps): update dependency virtualenv to v21.1.0 (#7298)
• 7e73a76 chore(deps): update dependency eslint-plugin-jsonc to v3 (#7260)
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[github-actions]

✅⚠️MegaLinter analysis: Success with warnings

Descriptor	Linter	Files	Fixed	Errors	Warnings	Elapsed time
✅ ACTION	actionlint	5		0	0	0.03s
✅ CPP	clang-format	166	2	0	0	1.34s
✅ CPP	cppcheck	166		0	0	5.34s
✅ DOCKERFILE	hadolint	1		0	0	0.03s
✅ JSON	jsonlint	8		0	0	0.33s
✅ JSON	prettier	8	1	0	0	0.39s
⚠️ MARKDOWN	markdownlint	4	0	2	0	0.74s
✅ MARKDOWN	markdown-table-formatter	4	0	0	0	0.26s
✅ REPOSITORY	checkov	yes		no	no	22.38s
✅ REPOSITORY	git_diff	yes		no	no	0.05s
✅ REPOSITORY	grype	yes		no	no	40.45s
✅ REPOSITORY	ls-lint	yes		no	no	0.07s
✅ REPOSITORY	secretlint	yes		no	no	1.62s
✅ REPOSITORY	syft	yes		no	no	2.78s
✅ REPOSITORY	trivy	yes		no	no	10.75s
✅ REPOSITORY	trivy-sbom	yes		no	no	0.19s
✅ REPOSITORY	trufflehog	yes		no	no	3.47s
⚠️ SPELL	lychee	35		3	0	1.89s
✅ YAML	prettier	8	1	0	0	0.52s
✅ YAML	v8r	8		0	0	8.48s
✅ YAML	yamllint	8		0	0	0.49s

Detailed Issues

⚠️ SPELL / lychee - 3 errors

[ERROR] https://confluence.atlas.philips.com/display/GITHUB/Contribution+Models | Network error: error sending request for url (https://confluence.atlas.philips.com/display/GITHUB/Contribution+Models) Maybe a certificate error?
[403] https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonar-scanner-cli/sonar-scanner-cli-$ | Network error: Forbidden
[404] https://github.com/philips-software/amp-preview/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0 | Network error: Not Found
📝 Summary
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🔍 Total...........61
✅ Successful......58
⏳ Timeouts.........0
🔀 Redirected.......0
👻 Excluded.........0
❓ Unknown..........0
🚫 Errors...........3

Errors in CONTRIBUTING.md
[ERROR] https://confluence.atlas.philips.com/display/GITHUB/Contribution+Models | Network error: error sending request for url (https://confluence.atlas.philips.com/display/GITHUB/Contribution+Models) Maybe a certificate error?

Errors in .github/workflows/static-analysis.yml
[403] https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonar-scanner-cli/sonar-scanner-cli-$ | Network error: Forbidden

Errors in CHANGELOG.md
[404] https://github.com/philips-software/amp-preview/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0 | Network error: Not Found

⚠️ MARKDOWN / markdownlint - 2 errors

CHANGELOG.md:18 error MD024/no-duplicate-heading Multiple headings with the same content [Context: "Features"]
CHANGELOG.md:23 error MD024/no-duplicate-heading Multiple headings with the same content [Context: "Bug Fixes"]

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• Documentation: Custom Flavors
• Command: npx mega-linter-runner@9.4.0 --custom-flavor-setup --custom-flavor-linters ACTION_ACTIONLINT,CPP_CPPCHECK,CPP_CLANG_FORMAT,DOCKERFILE_HADOLINT,JSON_JSONLINT,JSON_PRETTIER,MARKDOWN_MARKDOWNLINT,MARKDOWN_MARKDOWN_TABLE_FORMATTER,REPOSITORY_CHECKOV,REPOSITORY_GIT_DIFF,REPOSITORY_GRYPE,REPOSITORY_LS_LINT,REPOSITORY_SECRETLINT,REPOSITORY_SYFT,REPOSITORY_TRIVY,REPOSITORY_TRIVY_SBOM,REPOSITORY_TRUFFLEHOG,SPELL_LYCHEE,YAML_PRETTIER,YAML_YAMLLINT,YAML_V8R

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