Renovate on Michele Bolognahttps://www.michelebologna.net/tags/renovate/Recent content in Renovate on Michele BolognaHugoenThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Renovate automerge stops without an error: six silent causes and their fixeshttps://www.michelebologna.net/2026/renovate-automerge-stops-silently/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2026/renovate-automerge-stops-silently/Automerge is on, CI is green, and the pull request has been sitting there for days. Renovate logs no error, because to it nothing failed. I hit six causes like this, each one costing an evening, and now check them in a fixed order.Write your update policy once: one Renovate preset for forty repositories on three forgeshttps://www.michelebologna.net/2026/one-renovate-preset-forty-repositories/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2026/one-renovate-preset-forty-repositories/Copied your first renovate.json into a second repository, then a third? Then you know how it ends: dozens of slightly different policies and no idea which does what. I moved mine into one preset that forty repositories on three forges read.Wait a week before you update: most poisoned releases are gone by thenhttps://www.michelebologna.net/2026/wait-a-week-before-you-update/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2026/wait-a-week-before-you-update/Do you install updates the day they ship? In September 2025 that got you malicious chalk and debug, live on npm for about two hours. My updates now wait a week, two for a minor release, unless they fix a vulnerability I actually run.