Handling git tags that differ from dependency management version

[jcaprice]

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted Renovate CLI

Which platform you running Renovate on?

Other (please specify)

Which version of Renovate are you using?

43.167

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We're running 43.167 of the Renovate CLI to update maven dependencies that are hosted on Github. I've observed that Renovate submits PRs with the release notes omitted when the source Github repository lacks a CHANGELOG.md and the version in maven differs from the git tag of the Github release. The maven-surefire-plugin, for example, has no CHANGELOG.md. The latest version in Maven Central is 3.5.6 and the corresponding tag on Github is surefire-3.5.6.

I have yet to find a way to configure renovate to use the semantic version with maven and a prefixed semantic version with Github releases. Is this possible to achieve through configuration?

Also, running on BitBucket via https://hub.docker.com/r/renovate/renovate.

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[RahulGautamSingh]

"is this possible through configuration?"

No.

A real fix would need something like a dedicated tag-prefix / release-notes-specific extract option, separate from the datasource's extractVersion. @viceice Should it be a feature request?

[jcaprice]

Thanks @RahulGautamSingh! If @viceice wants this as a feature request I'd be happy to submit a new discussion under the "Suggest an Idea" category, if necessary.

[viceice]

there should be a feature request for an option like extract version but for change log fetching

[RahulGautamSingh]

@jcaprice yu can create one now. We can discuss the details and implementation there.

[viceice]

related

• Major overhaul of changelog retrieval #14138