I am using Sonatype Nexus RepositoryOSS 3.61.0-02. I have configured a clean-up policy such that artifacts are deleted after 30 days (Published Before). That works fine and deletion works. I am wondering if it is possible to somehow configure such that at least one last version is always retained ir…

Hey thanks, is there way to do this on free version?

Unfortunately not, @verilerlehayat .

And I have the opposite problem: I don’t want to delete the artifacts, but they are being deleted automatically. leaving only 5 latest tags. That is the case with Nexus OSS 3.66 at mine with docker repo, which has no Cleanup polisy nor Delete unused images tasks bound to it. I’ve exhausted all the …

Customized clean-up policy

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mprescott (Michael Prescott) February 20, 2024, 12:10am 2

This is possible with Nexus Pro, for maven and Docker. You can retain the n most recent versions and allow the others to be cleaned up. Which format(s) are you needing this for?

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Customized clean-up policy

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