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)

Add caching support on GHES 3.5

In scope of this release we added support for caching from GHES 3.5 and fixed download issue for files > 2GB during restore. Besides, we updated actions/cache dependency to 2.0.0 version.

v3.0.0

In scope of this release we changed version of the runtime Node.js for the setup-node action and updated package-lock.json file to v2.

Breaking Changes

• With the update to Node 16 in #414, all scripts will now be run with Node 16 rather than Node 12.
• We removed deprecated version input (#424). Please use node-version input instead.