fix: automate tested dependency updates

[patrickleet]

Summary

• Track Crossplane package constraints and runtime chart/image versions with Renovate.
• Loosen upbound.yaml requirements to major-only ranges and group AWS provider-family updates.
• Enable minor and patch automerge only after PR checks pass; major updates remain manual.
• Ensure dependency changes anywhere under .github/workflows/** trigger the full PR workflow.

Validation

• Renovate configuration validation passed across all 42 active Hops configurations.
• Local Renovate extraction found valid package/runtime values and major-only Crossplane ranges.
• git diff --check and YAML/JSON parsing passed across all 42 repositories.
• up project build could not run because the local Docker daemon is stopped.

GitKB task: 01a04f21-8382-72f1-9503-7d1e40c1d54d

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Improved automated dependency updates with safer major-version handling and more precise version matching.
  • Added clearer, bounded version requirements for key integrations and providers.
  • Expanded dependency detection while excluding fixture files from automated updates.
  • Updated pull request automation to run when dependency configuration or workflow definitions change.
  • Refreshed documented dependency requirements to reflect the new versioning approach.

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• .github/workflows/on-pr.yaml
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request updates Renovate matching and discovery rules, changes four dependency constraints to caret ranges, updates the README dependency table, and expands pull request workflow path triggers.

Changes

Automation and Dependency Configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Renovate policy and dependency discovery renovate.json	Renovate now matches caret-style Crossplane constraints, narrows xpkg registry detection, supports default annotations, and ignores fixture paths.
Dependency constraints and documentation upbound.yaml, README.md	Four dependencies and their README entries now use caret ranges bounded by major version.
Workflow trigger scope .github/workflows/on-pr.yaml	The pull request workflow now triggers for changes to renovate.json and files under .github/workflows/**.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dd8aa

The PR broadens Crossplane dependency constraints from explicit minimum versions to major-only ranges, which may allow versions below the documented compatibility floors and cause dependency resolution to diverge from the published contract. It is mergeable with owner awareness or a follow-up to confirm the lower-bound behavior is intentional and aligned.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: automating tested dependency updates through Renovate and workflow changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@renovate.json`:
- Line 110: Update the image-specific matchStrings regular expression in
renovate.json to support Docker references with registry host ports, such as
registry.example.com:5000/team/image:tag, while still capturing the final image
tag as currentValue and preserving existing unported image matches.

In `@upbound.yaml`:
- Line 10: Align the dependency version constraints in upbound.yaml with the
documented floors: set function-auto-ready to >=v0.6.1 and provider-upjet-github
to >=v0.19.0, preserving the README.md compatibility contract.

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Published Crossplane Package

The following Crossplane package was published as part of this PR:

Package: ghcr.io/hops-ops/gitops-stack:pr-42-1357eee0c70a73c17fbb43df6b6e9935d5933789

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