v3.7.0

What's Changed

In scope of this release we added a logic to save an additional cache path for yarn 3 (related pull request and feature request). Moreover, we added functionality to use all the sub directories derived from cache-dependency-path input and add detect all dependencies directories to cache (related pull request and feature request).

Besides, we made such changes as:

• Replace workflow badge with new badge by @jongwooo in #653
• Fix a minor typo by @phanan in #662
• docs: fix typo in advanced-usage.md by @remarkablemark in #697
• bugfix: Don't attempt to use Windows fallbacks on non-Windows OSes by @domdomegg in #718
• Update to node 18.x by @feelepxyz in #751
• Remove implicit dependencies by @nikolai-laevskii in #758
• Fix description about ensuring workflow access to private package by @x86chi in #704

New Contributors

• @jongwooo made their first contribution in #653
• @phanan made their first contribution in #662
• @remarkablemark made their first contribution in #697
• @domdomegg made their first contribution in #718
• @feelepxyz made their first contribution in #751
• @nikolai-laevskii made their first contribution in #758
• @x86chi made their first contribution in #704

Full Changelog: v3...v3.7.0

Update @actions/core for v2

In scope of this release we updated actions/core to 1.10.0 and actions/tool-cache to 1.7.2 for v2: #713

Add Support for Nightly, Canary and RC builds for Node.js

In scope of this release we added support to download nightly, rc (#611) and canary (#619) Node.js distributions.

For nightly versions:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Node sample
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '16-nightly'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

For canary versions:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Node sample
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '16-v8-canary’
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

For rc versions:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Node sample
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '16.0.0-rc.1’
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

Note: For more examples please refer to documentation.

Besides, we added the following changes as:

• Updated minimatch: #608
• Fixed extra newline character in version output when reading from a file: #625
• Passed the token input through on GHES: #595
• Fixed issue with scoped registries are duplicated in npmrc: #637

Update @actions/core and Print Node, Npm, Yarn versions

In scope of this release we updated actions/core to 1.10.0. Moreover, we added logic to print Nodejs, Npm, Yarn versions after installation.

Add support for engines.node and Volta

In scope of this release we add support for engines.node. The action will be able to grab the version form package.json#engines.node. #485. Moreover, we added support for Volta

Besides, we updated @actions/core to 1.9.1 and @actions/cache to 3.0.4

Fix pnpm output and node-version output issues

In scope of this release we fixed bugs related to the pnpm 7.5.1 output issue from pnpm store path #545. Moreover we fixed the issue with falling on node-version output #540.

Add support for asdf format and update actions/cache version to 3.0.0

In scope of this release we updated actions/cache package as the new version contains fixes for caching error handling. Moreover, we added support for asdf format as Node.js version file #373. Besides, we introduced new output node-version and added npm-shrinkwrap.json to dependency file patterns: #439

Add support for lts/-n aliases

In scope of this release we added support for lts/-n aliases, improve logic for current, latest and node aliases to handle them from toolcache, update ncc package.

Support of lts/-n aliases

• Related pull request: #481
• Related issue: #26

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: actions/setup-node@v3
  with:
    node-version: lts/-1
- run: npm ci
- run: npm test

Minor improvements

• Update zeit/ncc to vercel/ncc: #476
• Get latest version from cache if exists: #496

Add current, node, latest aliases

In scope of this release we added new aliases to install the latest Node.js version. #483

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: actions/setup-node@v3
  with:
    node-version: current
- run: npm ci
- run: npm test

Update actions/cache version to 2.0.2

In scope of this release we updated actions/cache package as the new version contains fixes related to GHES 3.5 (#460)