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Renovate — automate dependency discovery and upgrade pull requests

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Stars
22,548
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 21, 2026

Overview

Renovate scans repository package definitions, detects newer dependency versions, and creates pull requests with upgrade changes. It supports many languages and package managers and can be tuned with grouping, schedules, automerge policies, private-registry access, and presets.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Discover package files and open update pull requests

Renovate detects dependency references, checks for newer versions, and can create pull requests containing the update and supporting metadata.

Sources: [2][3]

Tune grouping, schedules, and automerge policies

Configuration presets and options control how updates are grouped, when the bot runs, and under which conditions changes may be merged automatically.

Sources: [2][3]

For teams that want dependency maintenance as a continuous workflow

It fits organizations with many repositories or package managers that want to reduce manual version checks and repetitive upgrade PR creation.

Sources: [2]

Plan repository permissions, private registries, and AGPL obligations

Creating update PRs requires appropriate platform permissions, and private packages need credential design. Self-hosted or modified deployments should review the AGPL-3.0-only terms that apply to the project.

Sources: [2][6]

Official sources

  1. [1]renovatebot/renovate repository(2026-09-21)
  2. [2]Renovate README(2026-09-21)
  3. [3]Renovate documentation(2026-09-21)
  4. [4]Renovate config validation(2026-09-21)
  5. [5]Renovate package.json(2026-09-21)
  6. [6]Renovate AGPL-3.0-only license(2026-09-21)
Supplemental curator note

Renovate goes beyond opening update PRs: configuration controls grouping, schedules, automerge rules, private registries, and more. The README describes support for more than 90 package managers and multiple Git platforms. The `package.json` version on main is a semantic-release placeholder, so it is not treated as the published release version.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Create a minimal renovate.json

    Prepare a minimal recommended configuration locally before allowing Renovate to create update PRs.

    { "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json", "extends": ["config:recommended"] }
  2. 2

    Validate the configuration safely

    Use the official config validator. This validates renovate.json without creating dependency-update pull requests.

    npx --yes --package renovate -- renovate-config-validator
  3. 3

    Choose the execution model

    Select a supported execution path based on Git platform, private-registry access, and repository permissions.

    Choose Cloud-Hosted / Self-Hosted / CI from the official Running Renovate guide
Check the official README

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22,548 Stars

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Commits (last 30 days)
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Open PRs
414

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  • npm
  • package-management
  • github
  • gitlab
  • bitbucket
  • azure-devops
  • dependency-manager
  • dependencies
  • dependencies-checking
Stars
22,548
Forks
3,321
Watchers
107
Open issues
1,023
Contributors
435
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 21, 2026
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