From b270543d0d7c31414e13804597ee7fd1e2e11272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Moussa <adam@seahavenind.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:48:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore(renovate): widen the schedule, track the EF tool pin,
 hold EF majors

The org window (before 6am on Monday) has produced no PRs in this repository
since the overlay landed, so the overlay now opens every weekday morning. A
regex manager tracks EF_VERSION in the Elastic Beanstalk packaging script,
which installs dotnet-ef at deploy time and would otherwise fall behind the
tool manifest and EF Core packages; it joins the nuget minor and patch group.
ASP.NET Core, EF Core and dotnet-ef majors are disabled while the target is
net8.0 so the dashboard approval list only shows updates that can be taken.
---
 .github/renovate.json | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/renovate.json b/.github/renovate.json
index 230da6d..70bff15 100644
--- a/.github/renovate.json
+++ b/.github/renovate.json
@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
-  "enabledManagers": ["nuget", "github-actions", "terraform"],
+  "enabledManagers": ["nuget", "github-actions", "terraform", "custom.regex"],
+  "schedule": ["before 6am every weekday"],
   "minimumReleaseAge": "3 days",
   "internalChecksFilter": "strict",
+  "customManagers": [
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "description": [
+        "EF_VERSION in the Elastic Beanstalk packaging script installs dotnet-ef at deploy time and must move with the tool manifest and EF Core packages"
+      ],
+      "managerFilePatterns": ["/^scripts/package-elastic-beanstalk\\.sh$/"],
+      "matchStrings": ["EF_VERSION=\"(?<currentValue>\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)\""],
+      "datasourceTemplate": "nuget",
+      "depNameTemplate": "dotnet-ef",
+      "versioningTemplate": "nuget"
+    }
+  ],
   "packageRules": [
     {
       "description": [
@@ -12,8 +26,10 @@
       "dependencyDashboardApproval": true
     },
     {
-      "description": ["Group non-major nuget updates"],
-      "matchManagers": ["nuget"],
+      "description": [
+        "Group non-major nuget updates, including the dotnet-ef pin in the packaging script"
+      ],
+      "matchManagers": ["nuget", "custom.regex"],
       "matchUpdateTypes": ["minor", "patch"],
       "groupName": "nuget minor and patch"
     },
@@ -35,6 +51,18 @@
       "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"],
       "groupName": "aspnetcore and ef core"
     },
+    {
+      "description": [
+        "net8.0 target: hold ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and dotnet-ef at 8.x until the TargetFramework moves; the group above takes over then"
+      ],
+      "matchPackageNames": [
+        "Microsoft.AspNetCore{/,}**",
+        "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore{/,}**",
+        "dotnet-ef"
+      ],
+      "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"],
+      "enabled": false
+    },
     {
       "description": ["Keep AWS SDK majors together"],
       "matchPackageNames": ["/^AWSSDK\\./"],