I feel pretty happy we use Renovator (EDIT: It's Renovate) at my current workplace which by default will raise PRs to change any tags for actions with the SHA instead. Then, even when it bumps the version in future PRs, it bumps the SHA (with a comment of which tag version it represents)

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jamietanna 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Glad to hear you're enjoying Renovate - I'm biased, but I agree that the SHA pinning PR updates are a very nice feature

We recently found (in Renovate) some edge cases with how tags work in GitHub Actions which was fun (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892740) and there's a few things in there Dependabot doesn't seem to support too

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mmarian 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you auto merge those PRs you're back to square 1 as you're not vetting your dependency updates. And if you don't, you incur operational overhead unless you put in a fair amount of effort centralizing. Wrote a couple of posts that touched on this https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202604/github-actions-sup...

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arionmiles a day ago | parent | next [-]

Valid point. We have minimum age requirements set on some rules to avoid absorbing every latest change instantly.

	▲	mmarian a day ago \| parent [-]
		How would that solve the problem though? You're still bringing compromises in, just with a delay. And the fixes will come in after the compromise, in accordance with the delay policy. To make matters worse, you'd lose getting alerts on vulnerabilities. Dependabot won't send them, and neither will Renovate last time I checked.

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pabs3 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

How many people actually audit the code changes in their dependencies when updating them?

	▲	mmarian 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Few, if any. Which is why I'm highlighting that you can't just use commit SHA + Renovate then call it a day.

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tecleandor 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it Renovator or Renovate? I'm trying to find it to check it out...

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arionmiles 2 days ago | parent [-]

Oops, my bad. We keep calling it Renovator internally but the name is RenovateBot or Renovate.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/

	▲	tecleandor 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! I'll take a look :)