Delete old releases

This action searches for GitHub releases matching a specific prefix or regex and removes all that exceed a certain age.

Usage

- uses: freenet-actions/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    prefix: 'develop-'  # Delete all releases starting with "develop-".
    max-age: 'P1W'      # Delete all releases older than one week.
    token: '${{ github.token }}'

With the keep-latest-releases option:

- uses: freenet-actions/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    regex: '^(?<group>.*)-\d$'  # Delete any and all releases. Capture part of the release name for the keep-latest-releases option.
    max-age: 'P1W'              # Delete all releases older than one week.
    keep-latest-releases: true   # Keep the latest release per group (e.g. develop-1, develop-2, etc.).
    token: '${{ github.token }}'

Inputs

Name	Required	Default	Description
token	true	None	The GitHub token.
prefix	false	None	If given, release names must match the given prefix to be considered for deletion.
regex	false	None	If given, release names must match the given regex to be considered for deletion.
max-age	true	P1W	The minimum age a release must have (published date or, if not given, creation date) to be considered for deletion. Format: ISO 8601 duration.
delete-tags	false	false	Delete the releases' tags?
keep-latest-releases	false	false	Keep the latest release (per group). If set to true, you must provide the regex input with a named capture group "group".
dry-run	false	false	Do not remove any releases, only log their names.

If you specify neither prefix nor regex, all releases that match the max-age criteria are deleted.

Notes

Draft releases are ignored: They are neither deleted nor considered for the keep-latest-releases feature.

Development

When making changes, make sure you run npm ci --omit=dev before commiting your changes. The production dependencies need to be commited for the action to be called, but the dev dependencies do not.