Rynovate

Mildly-aggressive Renovate presets for keeping dependencies up to date.

See renovate-config-seek for a baseline preset that only maintains SEEK npm packages.

Table of contents

• Presets
  • default
  • non-critical
  • third-party-major
• Usage
• Contributing

Presets

default

Dependencies are selectively grouped and scheduled:

Type	Grouped	Schedule
SEEK (select package versions)	No	Weekday, automerged
SEEK (rest)	No	Weekday
Pin dependency	Yes	Weekday, automerged
Go module digest update	Yes	Monthly
Go module version update	No	Monday, Friday
JavaScript dependency	No	Monday, Friday
JavaScript devDependency	Yes	Fortnightly on Tuesday
JavaScript peerDependency	Yes	Fortnightly on Tuesday
TypeScript definition	Yes	Fortnightly on Tuesday, automerged
Buildkite plugin	Yes	Fortnightly on Wednesday
Docker image	Yes	Fortnightly on Wednesday
Lock file maintenance	Yes	Fortnightly on Wednesday, automerged
Noisy dependency (e.g. aws-sdk)	No	Monthly

Pull requests are tersely named:

Type	Example
Production dependency	fix: pino 5.12.2
Non-production dependency	deps: npm dev dependencies
Lock file maintenance	deps: lock file maintenance

non-critical

Type	Grouped	Schedule
Gantry Buildkite plugin	No	Weekday
*	Yes	Monday
Lock file maintenance	Yes	Fortnightly on Wednesday, automerged

Type	Example
Gantry Buildkite plugin	deps: seek-jobs/gantry v1.0.0
*	fix: all dependencies
Lock file maintenance	deps: lock file maintenance

third-party-major

Like the default preset, but less noisy as it only monitors major updates for non-SEEK deps. Non-major Buildkite plugin and Docker image versions are still renovated.

Usage

Getting started with presets

Reference in an extends array within Renovate config:

{
  extends: [
    // Required to access private SEEK packages
    'local>seek-jobs/renovate-config',

    'github>seek-oss/rynovate',
  ],
}

Choose a named preset with a :preset suffix:

{
  extends: [
    // Required to access private SEEK packages
    'local>seek-jobs/renovate-config',

    'github>seek-oss/rynovate:non-critical'.
  ],
}

Adding your own package rules

Disable incompatible major version upgrades for a specific package:

{
  extends: [
    // Required to access private SEEK packages
    'local>seek-jobs/renovate-config',

    'github>seek-oss/rynovate',
  ],
  packageRules: [
    {
      matchManagers: ['npm'],
      matchDepNames: ['your-package-name-here'],
      matchUpdateTypes: ['major'],

      enabled: false,
    },
  ],
}

Ignore a specific package version:

{
  extends: [
    // Required to access private SEEK packages
    'local>seek-jobs/renovate-config',

    'github>seek-oss/rynovate',
  ],
  packageRules: [
    {
      matchManagers: ['npm'],
      matchDepNames: ['your-package-name-here'],

      allowedVersions: '!/^1\\.2\\.3$/',
    },
  ],
}

Ungroup a specific package that is usually grouped by the preset:

{
  extends: [
    // Required to access private SEEK packages
    'local>seek-jobs/renovate-config',

    'github>seek-oss/rynovate:non-critical',
  ],
  packageRules: [
    {
      matchManagers: ['npm'],
      matchDepNames: ['your-package-name-here'],
      matchUpdateTypes: ['major', 'minor', 'patch'],

      commitMessageExtra: '{{newValue}}',
      commitMessageTopic: '{{depName}}',
      groupName: null,
      schedule: 'before 3:00 am every weekday',
    },
  ],
}

For more information, see Renovate's comprehensive documentation of its configuration options.