Dependabot

It is considered best practice to regularly update dependencies, to avoid being exposed to vulnerabilities, limit incompatibilities between dependencies, and avoid complex upgrades when upgrading from a too old version.

Dependabot has announced support for uv, but there are some use cases that are not yet working. See astral-sh/uv#2512 for updates.

Dependabot supports updating uv.lock files. To enable it, add the uv package-ecosystem to your updates list in the dependabot.yml:

version: 2

updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "uv"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

Dependency cooldown

If you use exclude-newer option, it is recommended to also set the equivalent cooldown option in Dependabot, to avoid ending up with pull requests where uv would not be able to lock the dependencies.

For instance, if you've set exclude-newer to 1 week, you can set:

version: 2

updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "uv"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
    cooldown:
      default-days: 7