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Dependabot does not support wildcard patterns in target-branch, making the existing release/* entries non-functional. Replaces them with explicit entries for each active release branch.

Changes

  • github-actions ecosystem: Replaced single target-branch: "release/*" entry with three entries targeting release/v7.4, release/v7.5, and release/v7.6
  • docker ecosystem: Same expansion to explicit per-branch entries
  • Formatting normalization: Quoted directory: "/" and interval: "daily" consistently across all entries (previously unquoted in the docker master-targeting entry)

Result

8 total updates entries (was 4): master + 3 release branches for each of github-actions and docker.

  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    target-branch: "release/v7.4"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"
    labels:
      - "CL-BuildPackaging"

  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    target-branch: "release/v7.5"
    ...
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Create a pull request in PowerShell/PowerShell to update .github/dependabot.yml so Dependabot updates target each release branch explicitly instead of using the unsupported wildcard release/*.

Context:

Required changes:

  1. Replace the github-actions entry that currently has target-branch: "release/*" with three separate updates entries, each identical except target-branch set to one of:

    • release/v7.4
    • release/v7.5
    • release/v7.6
      Keep labels and schedule interval daily.

  2. Replace the docker entry that currently has target-branch: "release/*" with three separate entries, each targeting one of the same release branches.

  3. Normalize YAML formatting for consistency:

    • Use directory: "/" everywhere.
    • Use schedule.interval: "daily" (quoted) everywhere.

  4. Ensure the resulting YAML remains valid and keeps the existing master-targeting entries.

Open the PR against the master branch.

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Update Dependabot configuration for explicit release branches dependabot: replace wildcard release/* target-branch with explicit per-branch entries Mar 3, 2026
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