My setup for automated dependency updates in Mill

[odenix]

I thought I’d share my setup for keeping dependencies in Mill builds up to date, similar to what Renovate/Dependabot provide out of the box for Maven or Gradle.

Since Mill doesn’t have native support, I wired up Renovate to detect and update dependencies using its custom regex manager. So far, this has worked well, giving me automated PRs for version bumps, including Mill itself.

Setup:
https://github.com/odenix/collections/blob/main/config.mill
https://github.com/odenix/collections/blob/main/.mill-version
https://github.com/odenix/collections/blob/main/.github/renovate.json5

[lefou]

Thanks for sharing. Did you know that https://github.com/scala-steward-org/scala-steward exists? IIUC, it can also be used locally, but I never tried that, as I didn't found information how it can work without a code forge.

[odenix]

I think I first heard about Scala Steward in the Mill docs. Since I’ve been a happy user of Renovate’s GitHub bot for quite a while, Renovate was the natural choice for me.