Update ghcr.io/mend/renovate-ce Docker tag to v13.6.0

Update ghcr.io/mend/renovate-ce Docker tag to v13.6.0
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No problems upgrading the Docker container with a Docker compose yaml file within Portainer and by means of Portainer DevOps resp. GitOps with dependency update facilitated by Mend's Renovate Bot itself.

This MR contains the following updates:

Package Update Change
ghcr.io/mend/renovate-ce minor 13.5.0-full13.6.0-full

Release Notes

mend/renovate-ce-ee (ghcr.io/mend/renovate-ce)

v13.6.0

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[!IMPORTANT]
The next planned release (~2026-02-23) will be a major version bump, with breaking changes including Renovate v43 major version update
see Renovate v43 release notes for details

Notable changes

GHSA-8wc6-vgrq-x6cf: Child processes spawned by Renovate incorrectly have full access to environment variables

This release contains a security fix for Renovate, GHSA-8wc6-vgrq-x6cf, which affects all self-hosted deployments.

Environment variable filtering was inadvertently broken in 13.3.0, which means that since then, any environment variables (including secrets) were passed to all processes (npm install or postUpgradeTasks). See the security advisory for more details.

This specific security fix only affects users who are running:

  • mend/renovate-ce >= 13.3.0 < 13.6.0
  • mend/renovate-ee-server >= 13.3.0, < 13.6.0
    • Server is technically unaffected, but should be upgraded alongside the workers
  • mend/renovate-ee-worker >= 13.3.0, < 13.6.0

If you are on an affected version, we recommend upgrading immediately.

It is possible that some users may find this to be a breaking change, if they were relying on the environment variables being present. This was never intentional, and can be resolved by globally configured allowedEnv and repo-level config of env.

Web UI

This release includes the first release of the web UI for Self-Hosted users.

A screenshot of a repository's job logs, presented in dark mode. There is syntax highlighting for extended JSON context on a log line,  Detected config in env RENOVATECONFIG, which provides more insight into what the log line is showing. There are two buttons to note - a button, shown as a download icon, to download logs and a "Collapse all" button. There is also a select box to note the lowest log level to show, which is currently set to DEBUG. You really want to try it, because it looks like it'll improve your life significantly!

Documentation can be found in more depth on the functionality, getting started, and considerations around authentication/authorization.

This is in Open Beta, and requires an Enterprise license key.

Application changes

  • Renovate CLI: Update from v42.92.1 to v42.99.0
  • feat: a new web-ui server (see docs)
  • fix(rbac): use relative paths when constructing request urls for github enterprise
  • chore(deps): update dependencies

Docs and Helm Charts

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mend/renovate-ce-ee/compare/13.5.0...13.6.0

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