Hi,

As of now the default retry for download action is set to 3 (three). This is an outlier as all other actions have retry set to 1. Some time ago I complained about it in the list. There is also a MR posted to address the problem: https://gitlab.com/lava/lava/-/merge_requests/3012 I just rebased it on top of 2026.01 and I'm planning to merge it in 2026.02 release. It will still be possible to set retry to 3 in download action with addition of failure_retry in a test job:

- deploy: failure_retry: 2 images: image: url: 'https://example.com/foo.tgz' timeout: minutes: 20 to: downloads

Please reply here if this change is going to fundamentally break your setup. IMHO the worst that can happen is the download timeouts increase 3x which in my experience should not cause problems. I don't know all potential setups, so please reply if this is a breaking change for you.

Best Regards, Milosz