On self-hosted runners it can happen that an action (docker container) is cached. This leads to the script trying to create the .ssh dir despite it already existing. The action then fails.
* feat: latest Alpine 3.23.0
* feat: latest Rsync 3.4.1-r1
* feat: integrate [rsync-docker](https://github.com/JoshPiper/rsync-docker/) 3rd party into this action as 1st party code (no more dependency, better audit, single source of truth)
- backported:
- agent-start
- agent-stop
- agent-askpass
- agent-add
- hosts-add
- hosts-clear
- new added:
- ssh-init
- hosts-init
- improved:
- stricter permissions on .ssh/ folder (700) and known_hosts (600)
- use set -eu in all scipts
* feat: new ``strict_host_keys`` option to enable support for strict host key verification. Default: false (to keep backward compatibility)
* feat: new ``debug`` option to see the commands executed (-x) by this action
* feat: this action is now scanned for vulnerabilities by Snyk
* feat; this action is now scanned by CodeQL for Q/A
* feat: this action now performs CI tasks such as Validation, Linting and Unit Tests
* fix: various shell syntax for robustness
* fix: use printf and redirect output to non-stdout instead of echo in sensitive code locations
* refactor: use $HOME instead of tilde ~ for robustness
* feat: cross-platform support
* chore: Deprecate 7.0.2
* chore: EOL 7.0.0 & 7.0.1
