v6.1.2

Fixes

• Fix nix store database merging logic (#84)

v6

Breaking changes

• Remove the save-always input as it'll soon be deprecated (#50). See https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/blob/main/save/README.md#always-save-cache as a workaround.

Features

• Support human-readable values for gc-max-store-size* inputs (#78)
• Prototype a method for saving flake attributes from garbage collection (#53)

Fixes

• Update to the latest actions-toolkit (#50).
• Fix cacheId not set after saving the cache (ddaea70).

• Fix Nix store database merging logic (use paths instead of hashes) (#69)
• Fix garbage collection logic (#62, 04c4f50)
• Fix purging logic (#72)
• Fix nix store database merging logic (use derivation paths instead of derivation output paths when calculating new derivation ids) (#84)

Documentation and maintenance

• Bump the nix-quick-install-action to v30

v6.1.1

Fixes

• Make the warning that the cache save failed to not be printed if we don't save a cache (25b011a).

Documentation and maintenance

• Add example to the gc-max-store-size input description (6369d8e).
• Update deps via dependabot

v6.1.0

Features

• Support human-readable values for gc-max-store-size* inputs (#78)
• Prototype a method for saving flake attributes from garbage collection (#53)

Fixes

• Fix Nix store database manipulation (#69)
• Fix garbage collection logic (#62, 04c4f50)
• Fix purging logic (#72)

Documentation and maintenance

• Bump the nix-quick-install-action to v30

v6.0.0

Breaking changes

• Remove the save-always input as it'll soon be deprecated (#50). See https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/blob/main/save/README.md#always-save-cache as a workaround.

Fixes

• Update to the latest actions-toolkit (#50).
• Fix cacheId not set after saving the cache (ddaea70).

v5.2.1

What's Changed

• Fix restore despite primary-key hit by @deemp in #45

Full Changelog: v5...v5.2.1

v5

Changes compared to v4

• Support two backends for the cache package (#40):
  • Add the backend input (there's an issue though)
  • Add BuildJet/toolkit fork (link).
  • Add actions/toolkit fork (link).
• Patch cache packages to support tar arguments.
  • Also suggest this patch to actions/toolkit (link).
• Fix cache merging
  • Remove the option --skip-old-files from the tar command in the restore phase to overwrite files that should be overwritten with files from a cache (see the comment).
  • Don't try to restore existing /nix/store files.
  • Fix merging stores #31.
• Add the save-always input introduced in the actions/cache v4.0.0.
  • Currently, it doesn't work #36.
• Sync with actions/cache v4.0.2

Note

The release date isn't important. This release was updated via:

git tag -f v5
git push -f --tags

v5.2.0

• Support two backends for the cache package (#40):
  • Add the backend input (there's an issue though)
  • Add BuildJet/toolkit fork (link).
  • Add actions/toolkit fork (link).
• Fix setting outputs (1543078).

v5.1.3

Fix #35 by merging changes from actions/cache.

v5.1.2

Fix missing .sql script - partially fixes #34