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docs: improve stabilityDays documentation #9792

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Expand Up @@ -2166,11 +2166,16 @@ If this setting is true then you would get one PR for webpack@v2 and one for web

## stabilityDays

If this is configured to a non-zero value, and an update has a release date/timestamp available, then Renovate will check if the configured "stability days" have elapsed.
If the days since the release is less than the configured stability days then a "pending" status check will be added to the branch.
If enough days have passed then a passing status check will be added.
If this is set to a non-zero value, _and_ an update provides a release timestamp header, then Renovate will check if the "stability days" have passed.
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There are a couple of uses for this:
If the amount of days since the release is less than the set `stabilityDays` a "pending" status check is added to the branch.
If enough days have passed then the "pending status is removed, and a "passing" status check is added.
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Some datasources do not provide a release timestamp, and other datasources are not supported at all by Renovate.
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Maven users: you cannot use `stabilityDays` if a Maven source returns unreliable `last-modified` headers.

There are a couple of uses for `stabilityDays`:

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