Automated Dependency Updates for Nix

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Renovate supports updating Nix dependencies.

Enabling¶

Nix functionality is currently in beta testing, so you must opt-in to test it. To enable it, add a configuration like this to either your bot config or your renovate.json:

{
  "nix": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

If you find any bugs, please create a new discussion first. If you find that it works well, then let us know too.

File Matching¶

By default, Renovate will check any files matching the following regular expression: (^|/)flake\.nix$.

For details on how to extend a manager's fileMatch value, please follow this link.

Supported datasources¶

This manager supports extracting the following datasources: git-refs.

Default config¶

{
  "fileMatch": [
    "(^|/)flake\\.nix$"
  ],
  "commitMessageTopic": "nixpkgs",
  "commitMessageExtra": "to {{newValue}}",
  "enabled": false
}

Additional Information¶

The nix manager supports:

lockFileMaintenance updates for flake.lock
nixpkgs updates

Open items¶

The below list of features and bugs were current when this page was generated on December 21, 2024.

Feature requests¶

Support shorthand nixpkgs references #18955

Bug reports¶

lockFileMaintenance does not refresh Nix flake.lock files unless a string like "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/anything" is present in flake.nix #29721
Nix extract function should return packageFile if lock file exists #29380