renovate: try to fix changelog link for digest-only updates - #633
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Digest-only updates (like pinned GitHub Actions bumps) don't come with a version change, so Renovate can't fetch release notes and the PR body falls back to a bare "/compare/<old>..<new>" link with no repo prefix — see #629 for an example. Add a default packageRule that templates changelogUrl to "{{sourceUrl}}/compare/{{currentDigest}}..{{newDigest}}" for any GitHub-hosted dependency, so the link actually points somewhere useful. Thanks to Jamie Tanna for writing this up: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/05/08/renovate-digest-changelog/
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That looks reasonably simple to try it out :D
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Digest-only updates (like pinned GitHub Actions bumps) don't come with a version change, so Renovate can't fetch release notes and the PR body falls back to a bare "/compare/.." link with no repo prefix — see #629 for an example.
Add a default packageRule that templates changelogUrl to "{{sourceUrl}}/compare/{{currentDigest}}..{{newDigest}}" for any GitHub-hosted dependency, so the link actually points somewhere useful.
Thanks to Jamie Tanna for writing this up:
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/05/08/renovate-digest-changelog/