From fb68a578ae814f8a4e2a3ee76a5dff0e0ec5668a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ceriu <stefan.ceriu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 10:36:47 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Limit the Renovate schedule to the early hours of the
 scheduled Wednesday

The "every 2 weeks on wednesday" schedule opened a window for the whole day,
so after the group PR was merged Renovate kept running and raised new PRs on
the same branch for versions that passed minimumReleaseAge later that day
(e.g. #6282 followed by #6286 and #6293).

Restrict every schedule to before 4:00 am UTC so each group produces a single
PR per cycle. The "4:00 am" form is required, later.js silently drops the time
constraint for "4am" in this position.
---
 renovate.json | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index bb2c3d57b..df626e739 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
       "matchManagers": ["xcodegen"],
       "groupName": "Project Dependencies",
       "schedule": [
-          "every 2 weeks on wednesday",
+          "every 2 weeks on wednesday before 4:00 am",
       ]
     },
     {
       "matchManagers": ["swift"],
       "groupName" : "Tool Dependencies",
       "schedule": [
-          "every 2 weeks on wednesday",
+          "every 2 weeks on wednesday before 4:00 am",
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
       "matchFileNames": ["compound-ios/Package.swift"],
       "groupName": "Compound Dependencies",
       "schedule": [
-          "every 2 weeks on wednesday",
+          "every 2 weeks on wednesday before 4:00 am",
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
       "matchPackageNames": ["pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing", "https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing"],
       "groupName": "Shared Dependencies",
       "schedule": [
-          "every 2 weeks on wednesday",
+          "every 2 weeks on wednesday before 4:00 am",
       ]
     },
   ]