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How to tell Renovate to use AWS-Codeartifact URLs in package-lock.json
I'm using Renovate in self hosted Gitlab to update my AWS-CDK projects. This works so far, but I figured that Renovate is not using AWS-Codeartifact URLs for package-log.json. Instead there are URLs to registry.npmjs.org
This is my renovate.json…

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Github actions for renovate to read AWS Code Artifact
We have a kotlin based repo in github and we are using AWS Code Artifact to store our private packages. I am trying to use renovate to check for dependency updates from AWS Code Artifact and create pull requests accordingly.
Knowing the fact that…

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How to add Renovate Bot packagerule for Maven minor update only for jre11 version
I want to do minor update for Java Maven with Renovate Bot for
11.2.1.jre11\ .
Renovate Bot updating to 11.x.x version, but changes the version from jre11 to jre18.
Initial version: …

Atul Kaushik
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How to prevent Renovate from updating dependencies which are not compatible with other dependencies?
I have implemented Renovate, but am stumbling on the following case (for nuget packages):
Package A:
AutoFixture.AutoNSubstitute 4.17.0
Dependencies: NSubstitute (>= 2.0.3 && < 5.0.0)
Package B:
NSubstitute 4.4.0
Renovate tries to upgrade…

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Exclude a dependency from Renovate updates
I use Renovate to keep my dependencies up-to-date. However there are some dependencies that I want to exclude from automatic updates, i.e. I don't want Renovate to update them, ever.
One such dependency is Postgres, which is specified in…

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how set custom env variables in renovate
I am using github actions where i am storing some secrets and they will be available as environment variables. I want to access these variables form my renovate config.js files
process.ENV.VARIABLE_NAME does not seem to work
There seems to be a PR…

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update kubernetes docker image after new image push with same or similar tag for renovate
I am using renovate to update my kubernetes manifest files. the process should be as follow:
build and push docker image with tag registery.com/nginx:qa-main
run renovate
renovate should be able to update image tag inside the helm values.yaml
I…

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Is there a way to update critical vulnerabilities in dependencies only with Renovate on Gitlab
we are thinking of using Renovate on Gitlab and havn't found anything on updating critical vulnerabilities dependencies only. We saw that it does distinguish between mayor and minor for example.
I found something in the Docs that it's possible on…

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Renovate plugin is not updating all the match strin dependencies
I am trying renovate plugin in our github repositories to update the dependencies version. For this we tried a regular expression like below in the renovate.json
"matchStringsStrategy": "any",
"matchStrings": [
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Release Notes not picked up my renovate bot
We are using [RenovateBot] (https://docs.renovatebot.com/) for automatic dependency management. We get the Pull requests created automatically, but the PRs don't show the release notes. Has anyone faced this issue?

Aswani Ramaswamy
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Apply major/minor/patch automerge logic to SHA pinned dependencies with Renovate
I am using Renovate on a GitHub repository to keep dependencies up to date.
I want to automerge patches and minor releases, but I want to let minor releases ripen for a few days, using the stabilityDays setting. This seemed to be working with this…

Tom Willis
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Updating base images using Renovate switches the type of image somewhat - Is there and way to have Renovate not change the type?
I am playing with Renovate the help keep the base images in my Dockerfiles up to date.
I am using openjdk:17slim as the image to try this with I have observed the following :
Approximately two weeks ago if you did a docker pull openjdk:17-slim you…

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How to figure out why VS Code considers the certificate expired whereas it is not?
In VS Code, there is an error loading particular JSON schema (Renovate Bot).
Unable to load schema from 'https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json': certificate has expired.(768)
{
"$schema":…

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What should be used for endpoint in renovate-bot config.json?
I am trying to set up config.json for Bitbucket Cloud to automatically update dependencies in npm repos of Bitbucket Cloud. I found one example, but cannot figure out two things:
endpoint - what should go there (ABC)? - our company's bitbucket…

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Is it possible to define a Proxied URL for the "Github-URL" in renovate-runner?
We want to use the renovate-runner project (https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner/) to enable auto-dependency updates in our self hosted Gitlab projects.
All reqeusts from gitlab to external services have to be proxied via Nexus. We…

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