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
>

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