Versioning¶

Once Managers have extracted dependencies, and Datasources have located available versions, then Renovate will use a "Versioning" scheme to perform sorting and filtering of results. The "versioning" is different for each package manager, because different package managers use different versioning schemes. For example, npm uses 1.0.0-beta.1 while pip uses 1.0.0b1.

Why you might need to manually configure versioning¶

Renovate interprets versions correctly out-of-the-box most of the time. But Renovate can't automatically detect all versioning schemes. So sometimes you need to tell the bot what versioning scheme it should use.

You can manually configure or override the versioning value for a particular dependency. You generally won't need to override the defaults for ecosystems which enforce a strict version scheme like npm.

Configuring or overriding the default versioning can be extra helpful for ecosystems like Docker, Kubernetes or Helm, where versioning is barely a "convention".

General concepts behind overriding versioning¶

Although you can reconfigure versioning per-manager or per-datasource, you probably don't need such a broad change
More commonly you would need to configure versioning for individual packages or potentially package patterns
The best way to do this is with packageRules, with a combination of matchManagers, matchDatasources, matchPackageNames and matchPackagePatterns. Avoid configuring versioning in a rule that also uses matchUpdateTypes, as the update types aren't known at the time the versioning is applied

Examples of versioning overrides¶

Overriding Docker versioning to use a versioning specific for a package¶

The configuration below overrides Renovate's default docker versioning for the python Docker image and instead uses the pep440 versioning scheme to evaluate versions.

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchDatasources": ["docker"],
      "matchPackageNames": ["python"],
      "versioning": "pep440"
    }
  ]
}

Using a custom regex versioning scheme¶

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchPackageNames": ["foo/bar"],
      "versioning": "regex:^(?<compatibility>.*)-v?(?<major>\\d+)\\.(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)?$"
    }
  ]
}

Supported Versioning¶

Supported values for versioning are: