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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions renovate-config.json
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"extends": [
"config:best-practices",
":semanticCommits",
":approveMajorUpdates",
"schedule:weekly",
":disableVulnerabilityAlerts"
],
"timezone": "UTC",
"schedule": ["* 0-4 * * 1"],
"minimumReleaseAge": "3 days",
"dependencyDashboard": true,
"dependencyDashboardTitle": "Dependency Dashboard",
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"automerge": false,
"packageRules": [
{
"description": "Group non-major updates by package manager",
"matchUpdateTypes": ["minor", "patch", "pin", "digest"],
"groupName": "{{manager}} non-major updates",
"groupSlug": "{{manager}}-non-major"
"description": "Propose only the highest available GitHub Actions release",
"matchManagers": ["github-actions"],
"separateMajorMinor": false
},
{
"description": "Group non-major GitHub Actions updates",
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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions runbooks/dependency-management.md
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}
```

The organization preset builds on Renovate's `config:best-practices` and weekly
schedule presets. It leaves Renovate's curated monorepo and related-package
groups in place instead of grouping every dependency handled by the same
manager. Broad manager-wide groups make one unrelated failure block all other
updates and make the cause harder to isolate.

GitHub Actions are the narrow exception. Their non-major updates are grouped to
reduce workflow-only pull request volume, while major updates remain isolated
and require Dependency Dashboard approval. Renovate is configured not to open
parallel major and non-major branches for the same action: when both are
available, it proposes only the highest release.

Repository consumer configuration belongs at `.github/renovate.json`.
Renovate also recognizes `renovate.json` at the repository root, but searches
that location first and stops after the first match. Never keep both paths; a
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