36.0.0 (2023-07-04)

Breaking changes for 36

• postUpgradeTasks.fileFilters is now optional and defaults to all files
• languages are now called categories instead. Use matchCategories in packageRules
• Node v19 is no longer supported
• datasource: semver-coerced is now the default versioning
• presets: Preset config:base is now called config:recommended (will be migrated automatically)
• remove BUILDPACK env support
• package-rules: matchPackageNames now matches both depName (existing) and packageName (new) and warns if only depName matches
• release-notes: Release notes won't be fetched early for commitBody insertion unless explicitly configured with fetchReleaseNotes=branch
• dockerImagePrefix is now replaced by dockerSidecarImage
• matchPaths and matchFiles are now combined into matchFileNames, supporting exact match and glob-only. The "any string match" functionality of matchPaths is now removed
• presets: v25 compatibility for language-based branch prefixes is removed
• npm: Rollback PRs will no longer be enabled by default for npm (they are now disabled by default for all managers)
• post-upgrade-tasks: dot files will now be included by default for all minimatch results
• platform/gitlab: GitLab gitAuthor will change from the account's "email" to "commit_email" if they are different
• automerge: Platform automerge will now be chosen by default whenever automerge is enabled
• Post upgrade templating is now allowed by default, as long as the post upgrade task command is itself already allowed
• Official Renovate Docker images now use the "slim" approach with binarySource=install by default. e.g. renovate/renovate:latest is the slim image, not full
• The "full" image is now available via the tag full, e.g. renovate/renovate:40-full, and defaults to binarySource=global (no dynamic installs)
• Third party tools in the full image have been updated to latest/LTS major version

Commentary for 36

If you're self-hosting Renovate, pay particular attention to:

• Do you want to run the full, or slim versions of the image? We have switched the defaults (latest is now slim, not full)
• Have you configured dockerImagePrefix? If so then you need to use dockerSidecarImage instead
• If you're using config:base in your onboardingConfig then switch to config:recommended
• gitAuthor may change if you're on GitLab and have a different commit email for your bot account. If so then configure gitIgnoredAuthors with the old email

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• postUpgradeTasks.fileFilters is now optional and defaults to all files
• languages are now called categories instead. Use matchCategories in packageRules
• Node v19 is no longer supported
• datasource: semver-coerced is now the default versioning
• presets: Preset config:base is now called config:recommended (will be migrated automatically)
• remove BUILDPACK env support
• package-rules: matchPackageNames now matches both depName (existing) and packageName (new) and warns if only depName matches
• release-notes: Release notes won't be fetched early for commitBody insertion unless explicitly configured with fetchReleaseNotes=branch
• dockerImagePrefix is now replaced by dockerSidecarImage
• matchPaths and matchFiles are now combined into matchFileNames, supporting exact match and glob-only. The "any string match" functionality of matchPaths is now removed
• presets: v25 compatibility for language-based branch prefixes is removed
• npm: Rollback PRs will no longer be enabled by default for npm (they are now disabled by default for all managers)
• post-upgrade-tasks: dot files will now be included by default for all minimatch results
• platform/gitlab: GitLab gitAuthor will change from the account's "email" to "commit_email" if they are different.
• automerge: Platform automerge will now be chosen by default whenever automerge is enabled.
• Post upgrade templating is now allowed by default, as long as the post upgrade task command is itself already allowed.
• Official Renovate Docker images now use the "slim" approach with binarySource=install by default. e.g. renovate/renovate:latest is the slim image, not full
• The "full" image is now available via the tag full, e.g. renovate/renovate:36-full, and defaults to binarySource=global (no dynamic installs)
• Third party tools in the full image have been updated to latest/LTS major version

Features

• allow post upgrade templating by default (#21326) (6a95024), closes #21320
• automerge: default to platformAutomerge=true (#21327) (61a7813), closes #21319
• categories (#16534) (19259a0), closes #13953
• commit all files in postUpgradeTasks by default (#23126) (9845082)
• datasource: default to the central default versioning (#23020) (8ccb0ea)
• drop node v19 support (#23006) (3923e7e)
• merge matchPaths and matchFiles into matchFileNames (#22406) (e3d5f7d), closes #22395
• npm: disable rollbackPrs for npm by default (#21970) (530f537)
• npm: support constraintsFiltering=strict (#22447) (ad0479a), closes #4826
• package-rules: match packageName for matchPackageNames (#22703) (e4dead2), closes #20926
• package-rules: remove fuzzy matchPaths matching (#22394) (033d776)
• platform/gitlab: prefer commit_email (#21122) (08bbf81), closes #12532
• presets: rename config:base to config:recommended (#21136) (f9e3e80), closes #12024
• release-notes: support configurable fetching stage (#22781) (c2d3ca8), closes #20476
• remove BUILDPACK env support (c7832e5)
• replace dockerImagePrefix with dockerSidecarImage (#22708) (aa14b77), closes #21217

Bug Fixes

• post-upgrade-tasks: enable dot option for file filters (#21282) (bc693f2), closes #21276
• presets: remove compatibility:additionalBranchPrefix (#22015) (a23ca9e)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: update ghcr.io/containerbase/sidecar docker tag to v9 (#23138) (2c8d565)
• deps: update linters (#23120) (81eb17a)
• fix docker exec test (d059ad1)
• ide/vscode: fix eslint issues on save (#23129) (519fe4c)

Code Refactoring

• release-notes: use util/url to validate url (#23128) (3bae715)