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Automated Dependency Updates for sbt

Categories: java

Renovate supports updating sbt dependencies.

File Matching

By default, Renovate will check any files matching any of the following regular expressions:

/\.sbt$/
/project/[^/]*\.scala$/
/project/build\.properties$/
/(^|/)repositories$/

For details on how to extend a manager's managerFilePatterns value, please follow this link.

Supported datasources

This manager supports extracting the following datasources: maven, sbt-package, sbt-plugin, github-releases.

Default config

{
  "managerFilePatterns": [
    "/\\.sbt$/",
    "/project/[^/]*\\.scala$/",
    "/project/build\\.properties$/",
    "/(^|/)repositories$/"
  ],
  "versioning": "ivy"
}

Additional Information

Extracts Maven artifact dependencies for SBT.

Open items

The below list of features and bugs were current when this page was generated on December 14, 2025.

Feature requests

  • Support autoreplace for sbt manager #25643

Bug reports

  • sbt modules with underscores resolving to wrong artifact and scalaVersion #30307
  • Renovate updating wrong dependency with artifact version that doesn't exist #18937
  • sbt manager does not pick up dependencies with excludeAll ... qualifier #13545