niv-updater-action

This is another long awaited release, that wouldn't have been possible without contributions @jfroche. Many thanks!

This release:

• Fixes an issue with nix paths inside the action
• Switches to node.js 20, as 16 is deprecated
• Uses newer niv from nixpkgs 23.11

This is an emergency release, as the previous release broke the execution, due to bad mode on a file.

This is a long awaited release, that wouldn't have been possible without contributions from @ggreif and @jfroche. Thanks!

This release:

• Uses a more recent nix (2.11.1)
• Allows using this action with self-hosted runners by setting niv_version to *from-nixpkgs*
• Fixes the retrieval of the changelog
• Makes sure that the PR description fits the maximum allowed size (GitHub limitation)
• Switches to node.js 16

Full Changelog: https://github.com/knl/niv-updater-action/compare/v10...v11

This is a cleanup release, to tie some loose ends.

Namely, this release:

• fixes the links so they now use togithub.com service instead of r.duckduckgo.com for redirects. This is used to avoid github linking the referenced issue, and creating unnecessary noise
• allows the use of dash in the repository name
• richer debugging output, at least when running the hub command

Snow Leopard to your Leopard -- this release contains some improvements and bug fixes to v8. Notably, niv-updater-action now properly handles repositories whose main branch is main, offers better handling of various SSH links to GitHub repositories, and finally, fixes an annoying problem with self-updating PRs, where update would fail unexpectedly*.

[*] Unexpectedly is defined as in: niv-updater-action was using hub pr command to fetch PRs branch -- that doesn't work without a checkout, so it would fail almost every time if the action was not preceeded by a checkout action. Which it was not, at least not in the examples given.

This release brings a new feature: ability to keep updating PRs with new changes to the tracked project. That is, if niv-updater-action opens a PR, each subsequent call will keep updating the PR with newly added changes to the tracked project, until PR is closed. So, if you're tracking a fast changing project (for example, nixpkgs), but you're slow to merge the niv update PR, it will at least have the most recent changes.

Recent changes in niv dropped the usage of ref as a branch in git sources. The new attribute name is branch.

Various fixes in the output, to make it more correct, and avoid spamming
of GitHub histories. Should be faster, too.

This release brings the following:

Formatting:

• Fix: Add an empty line after the title. Now GitHub Commits list looks
  better.
• Fix: Remove preceeding space in the title
• Output branch name used by niv, so that it is clear what is being
  tracked
• Add a title prefix support via title_prefix option

Being nice:

• Reformat mentions in the changelog to reduce spamming of mentioned
  developers (now, @knl will not generate a GitHub notification when
  present in the changelog)
• Add option to avoid GitHub backreferencing the PR. That is, when we
  have #123 in the changelog, it will be a correct link to the correct
  repository, however, the referenced PR/issue will not contain a
  reference, thus reducing the spamming. See
  https://github.com/knl/niv-updater-action/issues/26 for more details.
• Make the location of sources.json customizable

Performance:

• Replace the use of jo with jq, thus avoiding to install jo
• Do not install hub CLI, as it is present in the default image. This
  should avoid installing hub, speeding up the start.

Snow Leopard to v4

This release brings the following:

• fix: Commits now have proper subjects. It used to be that the subject
  line was missing, leaving '## Changelog for xxx' as the subject line.
  This lead to some really ugly changelogs. Thanks @nomeata and @pbogdan
• The validity of the GITHUB_TOKEN is now checked before any operation
  starts. This helps with debugging failed runs.

A bag full of goodies.

This release brings the following:

• Labels: one can now attach labels to the created PRs
• fix: Issue links in the changelog now point to the right repository
• Generated branches now sport a customizable prefix
• Generated commit messages now sport a customizable prefix and a suffix
• Merge commits do not show up in the changelog by default (but you can
  turn then back on).

The third time's the charm!

This release brings many improvements and some changes in the API:

• Builds are faster since fetching niv improved significantly due to
  https://github.com/nmattia/niv/pull/205
• Builds are also faster as we don't install git and jq anymore (they
  are present on the image already)
• Use whitelist and blacklist to narrow down what needs to be installed
• Boolean looking inputs now use boolean values (false and true),
  instead of illogical empty string/any string distinction

Fixes an annoying bug with hub pull-request invocation, where it would fail if there was no preceding checkout. Now we rely only on hub api calls to do our business.

This release brings all the good features:

• Create update pull requests for each dependency. This action will avoid creating other pull requests for the same dependency until the branch for the dependency update is deleted.
• Allow skipping some dependencies
• Allow skipping dependencies behind SSH (as keys are not available to the Action)
• Allow skipping updates for dependencies that have a version (not git SHA) for the revision. That is, allow for tagged releases to stay so (until niv adds functionality for that).