renovate

In case you are publishing artifacts and you want to ensure that your changelogs are fetchable by Renovate, you need to configure the scm section on their pom.xml file.

For example:

<scm>
    <url>scm:git:https://github.com/path_to_repository</url>
</scm>

This is what allows Renovate to determine the sourceUrl, that it then uses to fetch the changelogs.

!!! note This also works for private repositories. It can leverage the same token that you had to configure in order to be able to reach the private Artifactory.

Specifying your project homepage

When opening a Pull Request Renovate uses the top level url property to determine the homepage of your project and shows it inside the Pull Request. To customize you can set it inside your pom.xml.

For example:

<url>https://project.example.com</url>

latest and release tags

Although a package's maven-metadata.xml may contain latest and release tags, we do not map them to tags.latest or tags.release in Renovate internal data. The reason for not doing this is that Maven registries don't use these tags as an indicator of stability - latest essentially means "the most recent version which was published".

For more information on this, see the analysis done in Discussion #36927.

As a result, neither followTag nor respectLatest concepts apply to Maven dependencies.