Automated Dependency Updates for Nix (original) (raw)

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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 managerFilePatterns value, please follow this link.

Supported datasources¶

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

Dependency types¶

This manager has no documented depType values.

Default config¶

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

Lock File Maintenance¶

This manager supports lockFileMaintenance for the following file(s):

• flake.lock

Additional Information¶

The nix manager supports:

• lockFileMaintenance updates for flake.lock
• input updates for flake.lock

For specifying packageRules it is important to know how depName and packageName are defined for nix updates:

• The depName field is equal to the nix flake input name, eg. nix.inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; would have the depName of nixpkgs
• The packageName field is equal to the fully-qualified root URL of the package source, eg. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs for the above example.

Open items¶

The below list of bugs were current when this page was generated on June 17, 2026.

Bug reports¶

• Nix extract function should return packageFile if lock file exists #29380