Publishing Renovate to NPM registry fails

[astellingwerf]

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npm notice Publishing to https://registry.npmjs.org/ with tag latest and default access
npm notice publish Signed provenance statement with source and build information from GitHub Actions
npm notice publish Provenance statement published to transparency log: https://search.sigstore.dev/?logIndex=578132853
npm error code E406
npm error 406 Not Acceptable - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/renovate - Package publish failed.
npm error Your package metadata is too large (100.01 MB > 100 MB).
npm error The likely cause is that you have too many versions (10451).
npm error Resolve this problem by unpublishing older versions of your package.
npm error See https://docs.npmjs.com/cli or contact support for help.
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2025-10-02T01_39_45_332Z-debug-0.log

See https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/actions/runs/18186474386/job/51772076731#step:8:14497 for extra context

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[jamietanna]

Thanks for the report! We had been looking into this, but hadn't yet spotted that as the cause 👀

[jamietanna]

Thanks again @astellingwerf - I'll close this Discussion, and move updates into #38341