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+### Making your changelogs fetchable
+
+In case you are publishing artifacts and you want to ensure that your changelogs are fetchable by `Renovate`, you need to configure the [scm section](https://maven.apache.org/scm/git.html) on their `pom.xml` file.
+
+For example:
+
+```xml
+<scm>
+    <url>scm:git:https://github.com/path_to_repository</url>
+</scm>
+```
+
+This is what allows `Renovate` to determine the `sourceUrl`, that it then uses to fetch the changelogs.
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore -->
+!!! note
+    This also works for private repositories.
+    It can leverage the same `token` that you had to configure in order to be able to reach the private Artifactory.