chore: Configure Renovate
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Merged to activate Renovate for automated dependency updates. The onboarding pull request was approved by one reviewer, passed CI checks, and added the initial renovate.json configuration to the repository.
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Welcome to [Renovate](https://togithub.com/renovatebot/renovate)! This is an onboarding PR to help you understand and configure settings before regular Pull Requests begin.
🚦 To activate Renovate, merge this Pull Request. To disable Renovate, simply close this Pull Request unmerged.
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### Detected Package Files
* `.github/workflows/build-rock.yaml` (github-actions)
### Configuration Summary
Based on the default config's presets, Renovate will:
- Start dependency updates only once this onboarding PR is merged
- Show all Merge Confidence badges for pull requests.
- Enable Renovate Dependency Dashboard creation.
- Use semantic commit type `fix` for dependencies and `chore` for all others if semantic commits are in use.
- Ignore `node_modules`, `bower_components`, `vendor` and various test/tests directories.
- Group known monorepo packages together.
- Use curated list of recommended non-monorepo package groupings.
- Apply crowd-sourced package replacement rules.
- Apply crowd-sourced workarounds for known problems with packages.
🔡 Do you want to change how Renovate upgrades your dependencies? Add your custom config to `renovate.json` in this branch. Renovate will update the Pull Request description the next time it runs.
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### What to Expect
It looks like your repository dependencies are already up-to-date and no Pull Requests will be necessary right away.
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❓ Got questions? Check out Renovate's [Docs](https://docs.renovatebot.com/), particularly the Getting Started section.
If you need any further assistance then you can also [request help here](https://togithub.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions).
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This PR has been generated by [Mend Renovate](https://www.mend.io/free-developer-tools/renovate/). View repository job log [here](https://developer.mend.io/github/canonical/snapcraft-rocks).
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged to activate Renovate for automated dependency updates. The onboarding pull request was approved by one reviewer, passed CI checks, and added the initial renovate.json configuration to the repository. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged to activate Renovate for automated dependency updates. The PR applied default configuration presets, enabling automatic dependency tracking, merge confidence badges, and dependency dashboards. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #143 chore: update renovate config | starbase | merged | Merged into main after reviewer approval and passing CI checks. The pull request updates the Renovate configuration across two files (+44/-13 lines) with no impact on test coverage. | |
| #1 chore: Configure Renovate | starflow | closed | Closed without merging. Renovate remains disabled due to a missing configuration file. The bot suggests creating a new onboarding PR or adding a config file to the base branch. The request was abandoned. | |
| #156 chore: make renovate update pre-commit-config | starbase | merged | Merged a chore to update the pre-commit configuration via Renovate. Approved by one reviewer, passed CI checks, and maintained 100% test coverage. The change modified a single file with one line addition and deletion. | |
| #606 chore(deps): disable renovate on things we can't update | craft-parts | merged | Merged a chore pull request disabling Renovate for unupdatable dependencies. Approved by two reviewers with no unresolved comments. The change adds four lines to one file to exclude specific dependencies from automated updates. | |
| #237 chore(renovate): fewer PRs to hotfix branches | starbase | merged | Merged a configuration update to restrict Renovate from generating pull requests to hotfix branches for non-development patch updates. Approved by one reviewer, passed CI, and applied with an eight-line change. | |
| #19 chore(ci): have renovate update snapcraft | snapcraft-rocks | merged | Merged a maintainer PR configuring Renovate to automatically update Snapcraft on live branches. Approved by one reviewer, the change adds 18 lines to a single file to enable automated dependency version updates. | |
| #86 chore(config): migrate renovate config | snapcraft-rocks | merged | Merged Renovate configuration migration to address renamed options. Approved by one reviewer and passed CI checks. The update modified one file (+14/-5 lines) to ensure compatibility and prevent future deprecation errors. | |
| #92 chore(config): migrate renovate config | snapcraft-rocks | merged | Renovate configuration was migrated to update deprecated or renamed options. The pull request was approved, passed CI checks, and successfully merged. | |
| #1418 chore: use the latest renovate config from starbase | charmcraft | merged | Merged an update to the Renovate configuration, pulling the latest starbase version. Approved by two reviewers with zero comments. The change modifies a single file with 63 additions and 12 deletions. | |
| #65 chore(config): migrate Renovate config | craft-actions | merged | Merged to update the Renovate configuration for renamed options. The JSON5 file was reformatted, removing comments and trailing commas. Approved by two reviewers and passed all CI checks. |