Nightly Builds

Automated rolling nightly releases

Nightly builds create date-stamped versions and maintain a rolling nightly release on GitHub.

Usage

anodizer release --nightly

Behavior

• Version becomes 0.1.0-nightly.20260327
• Creates or replaces the nightly tag and GitHub release
• All normal pipeline stages run (build, archive, checksum, release, publish)
• Distinct from --snapshot — nightlies publish, snapshots don't

Config

nightly:
  name_template: "{{ Version }}-nightly.{{ Now | date(format='%Y%m%d') }}"
  tag_name: nightly

CI integration

Run nightly builds on a schedule:

# GitHub Actions
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 2 * * *"    # 2 AM UTC daily

jobs:
  nightly:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: tj-smith47/anodizer-action@v1
        with:
          install-rust: true
          auto-install: true
          install: cargo-zigbuild
          args: release --nightly
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}