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Zack Kanter 371412d4c1 fix(datasource/npm): require public Cache-Control to cache responses (#42822)
* fix(datasource/npm): require public Cache-Control to cache responses

The npm datasource opts out of the authorization-header privacy check
(checkAuthorizationHeader: false) and relies on Cache-Control alone to
classify responses. Previously, when a registry omitted Cache-Control
entirely, cacheAllowed fell through to "cache it" — so private packages
served by GitHub Packages (which sends no Cache-Control header) were
cached in the shared package cache.

Flip the semantic of checkCacheControlHeader: true to require an
affirmative Cache-Control: public signal. Missing or non-public headers
now disallow caching. registry.npmjs.org is unaffected because it
already sends Cache-Control: public, max-age=...

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(cache): avoid renewing disallowed package cache on 304

* Revert "fix(cache): avoid renewing disallowed package cache on 304"

This reverts commit 64801bb036269352465aac580b9861c5b7716cc1.
2026-07-07 19:27:47 +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.