Webhook enhancements for environment protection rules

A GitHub Actions workflow run is made up of one or more jobs and each job is associated with a check run. The workflow_job webhook is sent during state transitions of a workflow job. The job state is included in the webhook payload as the action property, which currently takes the values of queued, in_progress, or completed.

With this change, the workflow_job webhook will now support a new waiting state whenever a job is waiting on an environment protection rule, aligning with the waiting state of the corresponding check run. This enables better insight into the progress of a job when using environment protection rules.

In addition, when a job refers to an environment key in its YAML definition, the resulting workflow_job webhook payload will also include a new property, deployment with the metadata about the deployment created by the check run.

Learn more about using environments for deployment Jobs in a Workflow

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