Returning a license

unity-builder and unity-test-runner already return the license they activated once the job finishes - manually returning a license is usually never necessary for those, unless you're running into an unrecoverable error while a license is still active.

unity-activate is different: it deliberately leaves the license active for a later step, and does not return it itself. Workflows using unity-activate on its own need a separate return step - either game-ci/unity-return-license@v2 or the game-ci return-license CLI command below.

Both Personal and Professional/Plus licenses are returnable - Unity moved Personal onto per-organization seats, so a Personal seat left active by an interrupted or activate-only run consumes a seat just like a Professional one does, and later runs on the same account fail with "no available seats" until it's returned.

Manual recovery

If you need to return a license by hand - for example after an interrupted run left a seat active - use the game-ci CLI's return-license command:

game-ci return-license ./my-project

See Activate & Return License for the full command reference, including credentials and how the CLI picks the right return mechanism for your license type automatically.

Legacy: Unity - Return license Action

Older workflows not using the game-ci CLI-backed actions may still use the standalone Unity - Return license action:

# Return License
- name: Return license
  uses: game-ci/unity-return-license@v2
  if: always()