GitHub offers Dependabot to update GitHub actions automatically. I found this quite useful for my own packages. The SciML organization and the Trixi.jl framework have already enabled it in many repositories, the remaining ones will be processed soon. You basically need to create a file .github/depen…

To be more specific, you can see Dependabot as an anlog of CompatHelper for GitHub actions dependencies such as actions/checkout@v2. Based on semver, you will not use actions/checkout@v2 with this setup. Dependabot will create a PR updating such a line to actions/checkout@v3. This will fix deprecati…

Unfortunately, we can’t currently depend on Dependabot to upgrade workflows like CompatHelper. I realized I need to go back to some repos and manually update it.

PSA: Use Dependabot to update GitHub actions automatically

Tooling

nsajko November 20, 2025, 8:18am 4

Dependabot now has support for Julia packages, too, allowing it to replace CompatHelper, the Julia-specific alternative:

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PSA: Use Dependabot to update GitHub actions automatically

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