Gitlab Tags Datasource

Table of values

Name	Value	Notes
Identifier	gitlab-tags
Default versioning	No default versioning
Custom registry support	Yes
Release timestamp support	Yes	To get release timestamp we use the created_at field from the response.
Source URL support	Yes	The source URL is determined by using the packageName and registryUrl.

Description

GitLab Tags API supports looking up Git tags and can be used in combination with regex managers to keep dependencies up-to-date which are not specifically supported by Renovate.

To specify which specific repository should be queried when looking up a package, the packageName should be set to the project path.

As an example, gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list would look for releases in the gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list project.

To specify where to find a self-hosted GitLab instance, specify registryUrl. An example would be https://gitlab.company.com.

Usage Example

A real-world example for this specific datasource would be maintaining package versions in a config file. This can be achieved by configuring a custom manager in renovate.json for files named versions.ini:

{
  "customManagers": [
    {
      "customType": "regex",
      "fileMatch": ["^versions.ini$"],
      "matchStrings": [
        "# renovate: datasource=(?<datasource>.*?) depName=(?<depName>.*?)( versioning=(?<versioning>.*?))?( registryUrl=(?<registryUrl>.*?))?\\s.*?_VERSION=(?<currentValue>.*)\\s"
      ],
      "versioningTemplate": "{{#if versioning}}{{{versioning}}}{{else}}semver{{/if}}"
    }
  ]
}

Now you may use comments in your versions.ini files to automatically update dependencies, which could look like this:

# renovate: datasource=gitlab-tags depName=gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/feature-testing/new-packages-list versioning=semver registryUrl=https://gitlab.com
NKJS_VERSION=3.4.0

By default, gitlab-tags uses the semver-coerced versioning scheme.

Open items

The below list of features were current when this page was generated on December 21, 2024.

Feature requests

• datasource gitlab-tags: private repository support #8159