Hi all, The fix has just been merged and released. It'll probably take a bit until it's deployed and the hosted Renovate Bots pick it up.
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/39558#issuecomment-3847561785 On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
