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dependabot-core reviews and mentions

• Best DevSecOps Security Tools for CI/CD Pipeline Protection
  14 projects | dev.to | 27 Jun 2026

  Representative tools: Trivy and Grype both scan lockfiles and dependency manifests for vulnerabilities, open-source and fast. For fixing — not just finding — Dependabot (GitHub-native) and Renovate (works everywhere, including GitLab) open automated PRs that bump vulnerable packages.

• How Dependabot Actually Works
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2026

  Is Dependabot actively maintained? I thought they announced a freeze on new features a while back, and their uv support never worked properly and has serious known security problems:

  > There's an issue where security alerts for uv projects are not working correctly. Specifically, the uv.lock file is not being updated when security alerts are triggered.

  — https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/10478#i...

• The Dark Side of Automation: When "Auto" Breaks Your Security Model
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Nov 2025

  The setup: A CI/CD pipeline that automatically approves and merges dependency updates from Dependabot

• Dependabot failed to support uv for over a year
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2025
• Open Source Ecosystem Unleashed: A Deep Dive into April 2025's Key Updates
  4 projects | dev.to | 19 May 2025

  More Details: Review the updates at Dependabot-core GitHub releases.

• Keeping Your Lagoon Dependencies Up-to-Date: A Developer's Guide
  6 projects | dev.to | 29 Oct 2024

  Dependabot- Integrated with GitHub

• Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024

  Oh yes, https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/3253. I wouldn't go so far as saying it was locked because it was too uncivil, mostly just because "additional commentary wasn't adding value" ;)

  Your read on the situation is spot on, and no, it doesn't look like it's been "fixed" (mostly because "fixing it would re-introduce the same potential vulnerability).

• Storybook 8
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024

  Storybook is great and all, but these days nearly every Dependabot alert I get is about a sub-dependency of Storybook. Since Dependabot doesn't currently allow you to ignore dev dependencies and only check production dependencies [0], this makes Storybook a Big Noise Generator and every time I dismiss another alert from it, I can't help but wonder if there's a better option out there.

  [0] https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/2521

• Keeping dependencies in your GitHub projects up-to-date with Dependabot
  5 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2024

  P.S. While this being a powerful and handy tool itself, it is only a part of Dependabot’s capabilities. If you are interested, you’ll find more about them in the GitHub docs.

• How to Manage Helm Chart Dependency Versions?
  2 projects | /r/helm | 4 Aug 2023

  Hello! I'm using Helm in K8s and curious if there is a solution that could keep tabs on the deployed chart dependency versions and either alert us when something is out of date or when a new release is available. Does this exist? I was thinking something like Dependabot or Renovate, but neither seems to be able to manage this.

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