In scope of this release we added support to download nightly, rc (https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/611) and canary (https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/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: https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/608
• Fixed extra newline character in version output when reading from a file: https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/625
• Passed the token input through on GHES: https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/595
• Fixed issue with scoped registries are duplicated in npmrc: https://github.com/actions/setup-node/pull/637