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renovate/lib/modules/datasource
Jamie Tanna aae889a285 fix(datasource/go): cache the publication time of each version (#45951)
* fix(datasource/go): cache the publication time of each version

The Go proxy defines that the `.info` API call is for a specific release
version of a module, this file should never be modified after it's been
created.

However, because we previously had a 30m TTL on these entries, a
repository that runs infrequently can lead to re-fetching data that
doesn't ever update.

We can fix this by introducing a separate cache namespace for the
module's creation timestamp (`Time` in the `.info` API call).

We can make sure that:

- we always merge, not replace, the entries, as the `major < 2` filter
  in `_getReleases` means a run may only see a subset of a module's
  versions, and writing back only what we saw would evict the rest
- we re-read immediately before writing, as `foo` and `foo/v2` are
  separate lookups which both walk the `v2` module, so one can overwrite
  the other's timestamps
- the key is the proxy which served the data, minus any credentials,
  since a private Artifactory `GOPROXY` is a different universe of
  timestamps to `proxy.golang.org`
- only the timestamps we successfully fetched are stored, so a proxy
  which serves no `Time` doesn't have that recorded for 100 days
- it uses its own namespace, so that a `cacheTtlOverride` on the release
  cache doesn't drag the immutable data down with it

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>

* fixup! fix(datasource/go): cache the publication time of each version

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>

* fixup! fixup! fix(datasource/go): cache the publication time of each version

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>
2026-09-15 16:02:16 +00:00
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Datasources

Datasources are used in Renovate primarily to fetch released versions of packages.

Follow the class-based programming style

New datasources must follow the class-based programming style. Use the java-version datasource as a reference.

Add the datasource to the API in api.ts so that the new datasource is usable. If you find Unused HTTP mocks errors in the Vitest tests and your mocked URLs are correct, make sure the datasource is correctly registered.

getReleases

The minimum exported interface for a datasource is a function called getReleases that takes a lookup config as input.

The config has:

  • packageName: the package's full name including scope if present (e.g. @foo/bar)
  • registryUrls: an array of registry URLs to try

getReleases should return an object having:

  • releases: an array of strings of matched versions. This is the only mandatory field
  • deprecationMessage: a string description of the package's deprecation notice, if applicable
  • sourceUrl: a HTTP URL pointing to the source code (for example on GitHub)
  • homepage: a HTTP URL for the package's homepage. Ideally should be empty if the homepage and sourceUrl are the same
  • changelogUrl: a URL pointing to the package's changelog (could be a Markdown file, for example). If not present then Renovate will search the sourceUrl for a changelog file
  • tags: an object mapping tag → version, for example tags: { latest: '3.0.0' }. This is only used by the followTags function

getDigest

Datasources that support digests (like Docker digests and Git commit hashes) can export a getDigest function.

The getDigest function has two inputs:

  • config: the Renovate config for the package being updated, has the same fields as getReleases
  • newValue: the version or value to retrieve the digest for

The getDigest function returns a string output representing the digest value. If no digest is found, the getDigest function should return null.