v17

What's Changed

Breaking changes

• Upgrade action to use Node 24 by @sandydoo in #212
  https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/

Bug fixes

• Harden the post-build daemon hook against failing. Caching issues should not prevent builds from continuing.
• Await main functions so that errors bubble up properly.

Full Changelog: v16...v17

v16

What's Changed

• Fall back to os.tmpdir when the daemon socket path becomes too long by @sandydoo in #209
• Added a small delay to allow post-build hooks to flush through by @sandydoo in #196
• Upgraded dependencies

Full Changelog: v15...v16

cachix-action-v15

What's Changed

• Pass cachixArgs to the daemon by @sandydoo in #177
• Support path filtering when using the daemon by @sandydoo in #182
• Skip prep steps if using pathsToPush by @sandydoo in #180
• store-scan: improve error handling when listing the store fails by @sandydoo in #183

Full Changelog: v14...v15

cachix-action-v14

https://blog.cachix.org/posts/2024-01-12-cachix-v1-7/

cachix-action-v13

• run on node20
• add skipAddingSubstituter to skip running cachix use

cachix-action-v12

Fix save-state deprecation warning.

cachix-action-v11

• Allow pushFilter regex to start with a dash
• Add pathsToPush and cachixArgs
• Avoid pushing .drv.chroot files
• Self-hosted runner support improvements

cachix-action-v10

The previous release broke installations when using Nix from master branch.

This bug is fixed and has a regression test.

cachix-action-v9

• when the action fails, don't display a frightening traceback
• use only stable Nix commands to avoid extra Nix configuration when using flakes
• new option pushFilter: Regular expression to exclude derivations when pushing, for example "(-source$|nixpkgs.tar.gz$)". Warning: this filter doet not guarantee it will not get pushed in case the path is part of the closure of something that will get pushed.

cachix-action-v8

Support for write auth tokens - see https://blog.cachix.org/posts/2020-11-09-write-access-control-for-binary-caches/