Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “nix-community”
January 8, 2026
Restore and save Nix Store
Version updated for https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v7.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Action Summary The “Cache Nix Store” GitHub Action automates the process of restoring and saving Nix store paths and other directories using GitHub Actions cache, primarily for Linux and macOS runners. It simplifies caching workflows by managing Nix store garbage collection, merging caches from multiple jobs, purging outdated caches, and providing support for custom cache configurations.
December 31, 2025
Restore and save Nix Store
Version updated for https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v7.0.0.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
May 10, 2025
Restore and save Nix Store
Version updated for https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v6.1.3.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Fixes Use bigint instead of number for the store size (#117) Fix saving a cache (#122)
May 4, 2025
Restore and save Nix Store
Version updated for https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v6.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Breaking changes Remove the save-always input as it’ll soon be deprecated (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/pull/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 (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/pull/78) Prototype a method for saving flake attributes from garbage collection (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/pull/53) Fixes Update to the latest actions-toolkit (https://github.
April 23, 2025
Restore and save Nix Store
Version updated for https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v6.1.3.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Fixes Use bigint instead of number for the store size (#117) Fix saving a cache (#122)
June 9, 2024
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.2.1.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes What’s Changed Fix restore despite primary-key hit by @deemp in https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/pull/45 Full Changelog: https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/compare/v5...v5.2.1
May 4, 2024
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.2.0.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Support two backends for the cache package (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/pull/40): Add the backend input (there’s an issue though) Add BuildJet/toolkit fork (link). Add actions/toolkit fork (link). Fix setting outputs (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/commit/1543078bc03636a65728d27b72d33f3c2d3da6f9).
April 3, 2024
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Use a custom @cache-nix-action/cache package that supports tar args. The actions-toolkit directory was moved to the actions-toolkit branch. 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).
April 1, 2024
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.1.2.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Fix missing .sql script - partially fixes https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/issues/34
March 31, 2024
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.1.1.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Fix merging stores (https://github.com/nix-community/cache-nix-action/issues/31)
December 21, 2023
Cache Nix store
Version updated for nix-community/cache-nix-action to version v5.0.1.
This action is used across all versions by 7 repositories. Go to the GitHub Marketplace to find the latest changes.
Release notes Update action configuration