renovate

This release contains some changes of default values/behavior:

• internalChecksFilter will now default to strict, meaning that updates will be withheld by default when internal status checks are pending. This should reduce the number of "non-actionable" Pull Requests you get.

• azure-pipelines manager is disabled by default, because its primary datasource can unfortunately suggest updates which aren't yet installable. Users should opt into this manager once they know the risks.

• binarySource=install will now be used instead of global whenever Renovate is run within a "containerbase" image. This means dynamic installation of most package managers and languages

• Dependencies will no longer be pinned by default if rangeStrategy=auto. While we recommend pinning dependencies, we decided users should opt into this more explicitly.

And two major features!

• AWS CodeCommit platform support

• OpenTelemetry support

Both the above are considered "experimental". Please test them out and let us know your feedback - both positive or negative - so that we can progress them to fully available.

Breaking changes

• breaking

  Node 16 is the required runtime for Renovate.

• breaking

  [NOTE: This was reverted in v34] config: branchNameStrict default value is now true

• breaking

  config: internalChecksFilter default value is now "strict"

• breaking

  config: ignoreScripts default value is now true. If allowScripts=true in global config, ignoreScripts must be set to false in repo config if you want all repos to run scripts.

• breaking

  config: autodiscover filters can no longer include commas

• breaking

  config: boolean variables must be true or false when configured in environment variables, and errors will be thrown for invalid values. Previously invalided values were ignored and treated as false.

• breaking

  datasource/go: git-tags datasource will be used as the fallback instead of github-tags if a go package's host type is unknown.

• breaking

  jsonnet-bundler: depName now uses the "absolute import" format (e.g. bar → github.com/foo/bar/baz-wow)

• breaking

  azure-pipelines: azure-pipelines manager is now disabled by default.

• breaking

  Users of containerbase images (such as official Renovate images) will now have dynamic package manager installs enabled by default.

• breaking

  Dependencies are no longer automatically pinned if rangeStrategy=auto, pinning must be opted into using rangeStrategy=pin

Features

• azure-pipelines: disable by default (#18142) (deea750), closes #15818

• config: default branchNameStrict=true

• config: move autodiscovery filter from string to array (#16525) (0a6d97f), closes #8763

• Default internalChecksFilter to strict

• Default to binarySource=install (#18027) (0be74f3), closes #14531

• deprecated

  Deprecate node v14

• Do not auto pin rangeStrategy (#18309) (cbca54d), closes #18304

• jsonnet-bundler: Use absolute import format for depName (#14525) (5e7844f), closes #13568

• Support AWS Code Commit platform

• telemetry: add OpenTelemetry tracing MVC

Bug Fixes

• config: unify env and cli coercions

• go: Fallback to git-tags instead of github-tags (#18060) (a446c2b), closes #17923

• ignoreScripts default (#18403) (b9f783b), closes #18173