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fix!: remove the "Bot" from user-agent header - #37535

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@rarkins rarkins commented Aug 15, 2025

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Default user-agent string will now be Renovate/version and not RenovateBot/version

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We dropped the "bot" from our terminology long ago

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LGTM

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Just checking: Are you sure you want to target the main branch with the PR? Don't we have a branch to accumulate breaking changes?

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I'll admin merge all breaking change PRs at once so that they release together in 42.0.0

@rarkins rarkins added this to the v42 milestone Aug 18, 2025
@viceice viceice added the breaking Breaking change, requires major version bump label Aug 18, 2025
@jamietanna jamietanna changed the title fix!: user-agent Renovate not RenovateBot fix!: remove the "Bot" from user-agent header Nov 4, 2025
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jamietanna changed the base branch from main to next-major November 5, 2025 11:31
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jamietanna merged commit 5beeb03 into next-major Nov 5, 2025
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