From 483ca36e45b71d6b7fb8906df04a05e4634ac070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:02:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] CI: run FreeBSD and Windows ARM64 checks nightly and on
 release, not per PR
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They ran on every push to main and on any PR touching Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock,
which is nearly every PR. See craftrules release/playbook.md §2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/freebsd.yml       |  7 +++++--
 .github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
index 868fccf..cafaeeb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 # fail a release. Nothing is uploaded and no secrets are used.
 name: FreeBSD
 
-# The VM build is slow, so it runs nightly on main rather than on every push: a drifted
-# dependency still shows up within a day. PRs that change the FreeBSD packaging still run it.
+# The VM build is slow, so it runs nightly on main and on pushes to `release`, not on every push
+# or dependency change: a drifted dependency still shows up within a day, and always before a
+# release ships. PRs that change the FreeBSD packaging itself still run it.
 on:
   schedule:
     - cron: "23 2 * * *"
+  push:
+    branches: [release]
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - .github/workflows/freebsd.yml
diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml b/.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml
index b4b0007..d857012 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml
@@ -5,15 +5,17 @@
 # everything. The launcher is a GUI app, so it isn't run here.
 name: Windows ARM64
 
-# Nightly on main (dependency and runner-image drift shows up within a day), and on PRs that
-# change the Windows packaging itself.
+# Nightly on main and on pushes to `release` (dependency and runner-image drift shows up within a
+# day, and always before a release ships), and on PRs that change the Windows packaging itself.
 on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "47 4 * * *"
+  push:
+    branches: [release]
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - .github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml
       - packaging/windows/**
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "47 4 * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency: