We're back after a great week at #OpenSourceSummit, where we've had some great chats with users, registry operators, security researchers and other Open Source projects, and have a tonne of exciting new things we want to work on!
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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools (2024) https://lobste.rs/s/kt0yxd #programming
Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Explaining why Renovate is going to be my solution to keeping up-to-date with dependencies and it's not likely to change any time soon.
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Automatic dependency update PR-raising tooling! We actually introduced Renovate recently in our azure devops CICD pipeline setup and it works pretty well. For years we didn’t have a dependabot- like solution and I am glad that we now have Renovate to cover that gap!
Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools (2024) https://lobste.rs/s/kt0yxd #programming
We've announced 1 Critical, 2 High and 1 Moderate security advisories - we recommend you upgrade to a minimum of 44.79.0 (2026-09-10) More info: github.com/renovatebot/...
[SECURITY]: Announcing 1 Critical, 2 High and 1 Moderate advisories · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #46549
We're announcing 4 GitHub Security Advisories (GHSAs) that affect the Renovate CLI. There are 1 Critical, 2 High and 1 Moderate advisories. It is recommended that you upgrade to a minimum of Renova...
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We're excited to announce that Renovate maintainers Sebastian Poxhofer and Jamie Tanna will be at @linuxfoundation.org's Open Source Summit Europe in Prague in a couple of weeks, and look forward to meeting folks who are there We'll also be at the @openssf.org's Community Day, too
Renovate maintainer Jamie Tanna looks back at the last year of being Renovate's Project Lead, and shares some interesting stats about how the project and the wider ecosystem have changed: www.jvt.me/posts/2026/0...
Looking back at my first year as the Renovate Project Lead · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Reviewing some of the key highlights of my last year working as the Renovate Project Lead, and showing some stats about the project, its community and myself.
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Renovate maintainer Sebastian Poxhofer has recently built an awesome way of visualising and debugging through what your Renovate config /actually/ does - secustor.dev/blog/renovat...
Renovate: It was a packageRule all along
As a Renovate maintainer, the question I answer most often is not “why is Renovate broken?” but “why did Renovate do that with my config?”. The honest answer is usually “because you configured it that...
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We've announced 9 High and 1 Moderate security advisories on #Renovate. We recommend updating to 44.14.7 (2026-08-07) at a minimum See github.com/renovatebot/... for more details
[SECURITY]: Announcing 9 High and 1 Moderate security vulnerabilities in Renovate · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #45495
We're announcing 10 GitHub Security Advisories (GHSAs) that affect the Renovate CLI. There are 9 High and 1 Moderate findings. It is recommended that you upgrade to a minimum of Renovate 44.14.7. T...
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If you're in the preview for GitHub Actions Lockfiles, but are waiting for Dependabot to ship support for updating them, Renovate's had support since Tuesday :) And a few other things GitHub Actions-y too!
As folks may have noticed - Renovate 44 was (accidentally) released yesterday with a non-breaking change. Please treat Renovate 44.0.0 as 43.x, and upgrade as normal!
npm staged publishing has shipped 🎉 Your CI can now stage a publish without 2FA, but a human still has to approve it with a hardware key before anything goes live on the registry. Stolen npm tokens stop being game over. Big deal for the Shai-Hulud class of worm. docs.npmjs.com/staged-publi...
Staged publishing for npm packages | npm Docs
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface
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The reddit engineering team wrote a great post about how they're using Renovate for their dependency management - very interesting and some good learnings on how they keep things patched at scale! www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...
From the RedditEng community on Reddit
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Renovate is now on endoflife.date/renovate so its even easier to have an at-a-glance way to check whether you're running a supported version or not 🤓
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Check end-of-life, release policy and support schedule for Renovate CLI.
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Learn how #Renovate maintainer @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy debugs Renovate config changes in this post: www.jvt.me/posts/2026/0...
My workflow for testing Renovate config changes (2026 edition) · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
A runthrough of my process for testing more complex Renovate config changes where I want confidence up-front.
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Requested post by @sethmlarson.dev: Package Managers Need to Cool Down nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/p...
Package Managers Need to Cool Down
A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.
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The #Renovate maintainers would like to get some speciifc feedback on a few areas - we'd love to hear from you: github.com/renovatebot/...
Feedback wanted: monorepos, getting started + "week 1" problems, complexity, and what's on your wishlist? · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #41414
We (the Renovate maintainers) are seeking community feedback on some specific areas, and we'd love y'all to comment on the Discussions: #41410 #41411 #41412 #41413
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Learn how we're breaking free from @github.com Discussions' limitations for our community triage, in this post from @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy www.jvt.me/posts/2026/0...
Breaking free from GitHub Discussions' limitations · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
How we built our own interface on top of GitHub Discussions to improve triage for Renovate's Open Source community.
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Today we've announced a Moderate security advisory, GHSA-8wc6-vgrq-x6cf *Child processes spawned by Renovate incorrectly have full access to environment variables* github.com/renovatebot/...
Child processes spawned by Renovate incorrectly have full access to environment variables
When Renovate spawns child processes, their access to environment variables is filtered to an allowlist, to prevent unauthorized access to privileged credentials that the Renovate process has acces...
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The Mend Developer Platform is now running #Renovate 43! Happy upgrading everyone 🎉
Reminder that #Renovate 43 came out yesterday! We landed a few breaking changes, so check out the release notes: github.com/renovatebot/...
Release 43.0.0 · renovatebot/renovate
43.0.0 (2026-01-29) Breaking changes for 43 Allowlisting required for "unsafe commands" #40684 NoteThis should only affect you if you work with repositories that have a Gradle Wrapper. Prior to Re...
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Renovate maintainer @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy writes about some of the things he's learned in the last 100 days since joining #Renovate - some good behind-the-scenes tidbits in here 👀 www.jvt.me/posts/2026/0...
The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer: the shocking inside view of a popular Open Source project · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Lessons learned from the first 100 days as my role as a Renovate maintainer, and a sneak peek into how the project works behind the scenes.
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We've announced 6 Moderate Security Advisories, which allow for possible remote code execution, when an attacker has access to a repository's default branch More info: github.com/renovatebot/...
[SECURITY]: possible remote code execution (with existing access to a repository) · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #40403
Today we are announcing 6 related security advisories: Arbitrary command injection via Gradle Wrapper and malicious distributionUrl (2025-12-28) Arbitrary command injection via kustomize manager an...
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Why does #Renovate use GitHub Discussions for our user support? Community Manager @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy took the opportunity to look into the history, off the back of recent discussion around #Ghostty, and wrote an in-depth post about it: github.com/renovatebot/...
Why do we use GitHub Discussions as our triage process? · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #40306
Over the weekend, there has been some good discussion on Hacker News about how the Ghostty project uses GitHub Discussions for triage purposes, and then promotes the feature request/bug reports int...
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Almost 9 years to the day of creating our first Issue (github.com/renovatebot/...), we've hit our 40,000th Issue/Discussion/PR (github.com/renovatebot/...) on the Renovate GitHub project 🎂
FYI: We've changed the `GOSUMDB` environment variable on the Mend-hosted Renovate Cloud infrastructure, which may lead to impact to users with private Go modules. As we've noted in github.com/renovatebot/..., this is due to previously used settings leaving users open to supply chain attacks
Changes to default `GOSUMDB` environment variable on the Mend Developer Platform (and what it means for private Go modules) · renovatebot renovate · Discussion #40041
NoteThis only affects Renovate Cloud on developer.mend.io (Mend Developer Platform), and does not modify anything for users of the Renovate CLI deployed as part of any self-hosted usage. This also ...
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