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What is a "cooldown" period in Dependabot configuration, and why would you use one?
A cooldown option delays proposing an update for a newly released version until a specified amount of time has passed since its release — giving the broader community a window to discover and report problems with a brand-new release before your repository automatically adopts it.
updates: - package-ecosystem: "npm" directory: "/" schedule: interval: "daily" cooldown: default-days: 5
This directly addresses a real risk pattern: a package maintainer publishes a new version that turns out to have a bug or regression, discovered and reported by the wider community within hours or days — without a cooldown, an aggressively daily-checking Dependabot setup might have already opened (and potentially auto-merged) a PR adopting that flawed version before the problem was even known, whereas a several-day cooldown gives that issue a chance to surface and be caught first.
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