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+name: Build server
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/server.yml'
+      - 'app/**'
+      - 'conf/**'
+      - 'modules/**'
+      - 'project/**'
+      - 'translation/**'
+      - 'build.sbt'
+      - 'lila.sh'
+      - 'conf/application.conf.default'
+      - '.sbtopts.default'
+    branches-ignore:
+      - 'l10n_master'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/server.yml'
+      - 'app/**'
+      - 'conf/**'
+      - 'modules/**'
+      - 'project/**'
+      - 'translation/source/**'
+      - 'build.sbt'
+      - 'lila.sh'
+      - 'conf/application.conf.default'
+      - '.sbtopts.default'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  SBT_OPTS: '-Xmx2048M'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        java-version: [21]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-java@be666c2fcd27ec809703dec50e508c2fdc7f6654 # v5.2.0
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: ${{ matrix.java-version }}
+          cache: sbt
+      - name: Setup sbt
+        uses: sbt/setup-sbt@93e926cbdb4a428e41b4ef754124ec82925ffdc2 # v1.1.23
+      - run: TZ=UTC git log -1 --date=iso-strict-local --pretty='format:app.version.commit = "%H"%napp.version.date = "%ad"%napp.version.message = """%s"""%n' | tee conf/version.conf
+      - run: ./lila.sh -Depoll=true "test;stage"
+      - run: cp LICENSE COPYING.md README.md target/universal/stage && git log -n 1 --pretty=oneline > target/universal/stage/commit.txt
+      - run: cd target/universal/stage && tar --zstd -cvpf ../../../lila-3.0.tar.zst . && cd -
+        env:
+          ZSTD_LEVEL: 1 # most files are already zipped
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
+        if: ${{ matrix.java-version == 21 }}
+        with:
+          name: lila-server
+          path: lila-3.0.tar.zst
+          compression-level: 0 # already compressed
+
+  docker:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref_name == github.event.repository.default_branch || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+    concurrency:
+      group: docker-build-publish
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c # v8.0.1
+        with:
+          name: lila-server
+
+      - name: Extract artifact
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p lila
+          tar --zstd -xvf *.tar.zst -C lila
+
+      - name: Copy default conf
+        run: |
+          cp -r conf lila
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@4d04d5d9486b7bd6fa91e7baf45bbb4f8b9deedd # v4.0.0
+
+      - name: Log in to GitHub Container Registry
+        uses: docker/login-action@4907a6ddec9925e35a0a9e82d7399ccc52663121 # v4.1.0
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Extract metadata for Docker
+        id: meta
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@030e881283bb7a6894de51c315a6bfe6a94e05cf # v6.0.0
+        with:
+          images: ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}-server
+          tags: |
+            type=ref,event=branch
+            type=raw,value=latest,enable={{is_default_branch}}
+
+      - name: Build and push Docker image
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@bcafcacb16a39f128d818304e6c9c0c18556b85f # v7.1.0
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: .github/workflows/docker/lila.Dockerfile
+          push: true
+          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
+
+  deploy:
+    if: github.repository == 'lichess-org/lila' && github.ref_name == github.event.repository.default_branch
+    needs: docker
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: deploy to preview site
+        env:
+          DEPLOY_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_PREVIEW_SERVER_URL }}
+        run: curl -X POST $DEPLOY_WEBHOOK_URL
+
+  format:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-java@be666c2fcd27ec809703dec50e508c2fdc7f6654 # v5.2.0
+        with:
+          distribution: temurin
+          java-version: 21
+          cache: sbt
+      - name: Setup sbt
+        uses: sbt/setup-sbt@93e926cbdb4a428e41b4ef754124ec82925ffdc2 # v1.1.23
+
+      - name: Check Formatting
+        run: sbt scalafmtCheckAll