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Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/renovatebot/renovate · homepage · TypeScript · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.0
  • age_days: 3546
  • days_rel: 6
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 3191

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

22349 stars · 3277 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Renovate is a cross-platform CLI tool that automatically detects outdated dependencies in repositories and creates pull requests to update them. It supports over 90 package managers and integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and other code hosting platforms, available as a cloud-hosted app or self-hosted job.

Use cases

  • automatically update npm dependencies in my repos
  • keep docker image tags up to date with automated PRs
  • schedule dependency update pull requests on gitlab
  • self-host a dependency update bot for all my repositories
  • reduce dependency update toil across a large monorepo
  • get merge confidence and adoption info before merging dependency bumps

When to choose

  • you want automated dependency update PRs across many languages and package managers
  • you use GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps and want minimal setup
  • you need a self-hosted, highly configurable update bot
  • you want merge confidence signals to decide which updates to accept

When to avoid

  • you only need vulnerability scanning without automated update PRs
  • you want a GUI dashboard rather than a CLI/scheduled job
  • you need a solution licensed for commercial redistribution under permissive terms (AGPL-3.0)

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

developer-tools package-manager ci-cd workflow-automation security dependency-audit developer-tools version-control security cli self-hosted cross-platform dependency-updates automated-pull-requests renovate package-managers github gitlab bitbucket azure-devops devops automation docker nodejs

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renovatebot/renovatemain95

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