Renovate not proposing an update, although it found it?

[johanneskastl]

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted Renovate

Which platform you running Renovate on?

github.com

Which version of Renovate are you using?

42.19.2

Please tell us more about your question or problem

I am happily using renovate to update my helm charts, which works pretty well now.

I stumbled upon a strange issue where renovate seems to find the update, but does not create a PR as it discards it or ignores it? This only seems to happen for linuxserver images that have a custom versioning scheme (vX.Y.Z-lsABC).

I have a custom regex manager using these lines in a Chart.yaml:

# renovate datasource=docker registryUrl=https://ghcr.io depName=linuxserver/heimdall
appVersion: v2.7.6-ls327

I can see in the logs that the update to v2.7.6-ls328 is found (see below). But then it states the current version is the fixed version (bigger part of the log see below)?

                 "currentVersion": "v2.7.6-ls327",
                 "fixedVersion": "v2.7.6-ls327"

I previously did not specify any versioning, then it did not propose any update.

Using loose versioning, it proposed an update to on old image from 2021 (which technically is correct, if you just compare the version numbers).

Now I do not get any MRs for heimdall any more.

Same goes for hedgedoc, it finds the image for 1.10.3-ls173 but does not propose an update.
(Although in this case it could be because there is no leading v in the image's version. I'll try something The regex should work with or without the v).

Any ideas, what I can try?

Kind Regards,
Johannes

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

DEBUG: found labels in manifest (repository=johanneskastl/helm-charts)
       "labels": {
         "build_version": "Linuxserver.io version:- v2.7.6-ls328 Build-date:- 2025-11-21T18:46:52+00:00",
         "maintainer": "aptalca",
         "org.opencontainers.image.authors": "linuxserver.io",
         "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2025-11-21T18:46:52+00:00",
         "org.opencontainers.image.description": "[Heimdall](https://heimdall.site) is a way to organise all those links to your most used web sites and web applications in a simple way.    Simplicity is the key to Heimdall.    Why not use it as your browser start page? It even has the ability to include a search bar using either Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo.  ",
         "org.opencontainers.image.documentation": "https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-heimdall",
         "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "GPL-3.0-only",
         "org.opencontainers.image.ref.name": "9fea03932aa7fe4a2a93968ee27bce0dd980be5a",
         "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "9fea03932aa7fe4a2a93968ee27bce0dd980be5a",
         "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-heimdall",
         "org.opencontainers.image.title": "Heimdall",
         "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-heimdall/packages",
         "org.opencontainers.image.vendor": "linuxserver.io",
         "org.opencontainers.image.version": "v2.7.6-ls328"
       }

           {
             "deps": [
               {
                 "depName": "linuxserver/heimdall",
                 "currentValue": "v2.7.6-ls327",
                 "datasource": "docker",
                 "registryUrls": ["https://ghcr.io/"],
                 "replaceString": "# renovate datasource=docker registryUrl=https://ghcr.io depName=linuxserver/heimdall\nappVersion: v2.7.6-ls327",
                 "updates": [],
                 "packageName": "linuxserver/heimdall",
                 "versioning": "regex:^v?(?<major>\\d+)\\.(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)-ls(?<revision>\\d+)$",
                 "warnings": [],
                 "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-heimdall",
                 "registryUrl": "https://ghcr.io",
                 "homepage": "https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-heimdall/packages",
                 "currentVersion": "v2.7.6-ls327",
                 "fixedVersion": "v2.7.6-ls327"
               }
             ],
             "matchStrings": [
               "#\\s+renovate\\s+datasource=(?<datasource>.+)\\s+registryUrl=(?<registryUrl>.+)\\s+depName=(?<depName>.+)\\s+appVersion:\\s+(?<currentValue>.+)"
             ],
             "packageFile": "charts/heimdall/Chart.yaml"
           },

[RahulGautamSingh]

use build instead of revision

[johanneskastl]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!