If `followTag` is defined for a package, then Renovate will ignore all other available versions and instead stick strictly to whatever version is defined for the tag. npm-only for now.
Closes#2258
Adds support for renovating git references in `package.json` files. Supports updating semver tags or sha1 references ("commit hashes").
Also includes support for updating git references from *private* GitHub repositories, if the following conditions are met:
- Renovate user/token is authorised to read from the source private repository
- Dependency is written like `git+https://github.com/owner/repo.git#ref` in `package.json`
Closes#415, Closes#817
Defaulting to ‘bundled’ (default behaviour), this option can be changed to ‘global’ if you wish Renovate to use globally installed npm, yarn, pnpm and lerna binaries. Note: composer always uses global regardless.
Adds functionality to force rebase a PR if the label "rebase" is added. Also, the label is configurable via a new `rebaseLabel` config option.
Closes#1406
Previously if grouping, all major/minor updates within that group were combined into one. Instead, we now honour the “separateMajorMinor”, "separateMinorPatch", and "separateMultipleMajor" settings and keep the groups separate if necessary.
For maximum compatibility with existing PRs, we name branches like `renovate/group-name` whenever possible and only name them like `renovate/major-group-name` or `renovate/patch-group-name` if major or patch are found.
Closes#2425
Adds new admin option “skipInstalls” that is applicable for npm-only for now (including lerna-npm). If set to false, Renovate will perform a full install of modules rather than `—package-lock-only`. This is necessary in some cases to work around bugs in npm.
Self-hosted bot users can set this option themselves on the bot’s config, but app users will require it to be enabled per-repository by the app admin.
If the current value is already unstable then we presume the user is happy to take newer unstable versions. However we should not presume that they want to keep jumping versions if so and instead would prefer to stabilise.
Discussed in #2258 but does not close it
