Release 0.38.0

Sunday, June 7, 2026

New features

Official GitHub Action

Installing bashunit in CI no longer means hand-rolling a curl | bash step. The new TypedDevs/bashunit composite action installs bashunit for you and can be pinned by commit SHA for immutable, reproducible builds (#695):

- uses: TypedDevs/bashunit@<commit-sha>
  with:
    version: '0.38.0'      # optional, defaults to the version pinned at the ref
    directory: 'lib'       # where to install
    add-to-path: 'true'    # expose `bashunit` on PATH
    verify-checksum: 'true'
- run: bashunit tests/

It exposes path and version outputs so later steps can reference the exact install.

Installer checksum verification

install.sh can now validate the downloaded binary against the release checksum asset. Set BASHUNIT_VERIFY_CHECKSUM=true to turn it on (#695):

BASHUNIT_VERIFY_CHECKSUM=true bash <(curl -s https://bashunit.com/install.sh)

Bug fixes

• install.sh now fails loudly — non-zero exit, no stub binary — when a download fails, and retries transient failures instead of silently reporting success (#695).
• install.sh creates nested target directories with mkdir -p (#695).

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See the full changelog for 0.38.0 on GitHub.