Hi Robert, Thanks for the update. Let's keep an eye on the Renovate issue tracker for progress.
Regards, JB On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 1:40 PM Robert Stupp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Renovate update jobs against the Polaris repository do not seem to finish > successfully since Jan 16. This is very likely caused by the recent Gradle > release last week. > > Background: Renovate runs its jobs on small ephemeral instances. For a > Gradle wrapper update, Gradle's built-in mechanism is being used (aka > Renovate runs './gradlew wrapper' with the appropriate options) to create > the PR. Polaris configures a 2G heap via 'gradle.properties' - this size is > very much on the edge for the used Renovate instance types, which have 2G > memory and 1 (v)CPU. > > The issue is already being tackled on the Renovate side [1] [2] by limiting > the heap for the Gradle version bumps. > > If the fix does not go in in the near future, we can try to request larger > Renovate runner instances. [3]. > > Robert > > [1] https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/39558 > [2] https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/40090 > [3] > > https://docs.mend.io/renovate/latest/mend-renovate-cloud-resource-tiers#MendRenovate-CloudResourceTiers-Community(OSS)-forOpenSourceprojects >
