{"id":96210,"date":"2026-05-26T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-05-19-dependabot-version-updates-now-support-the-sbt-ecosystem"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:11:42","slug":"dependabot-version-updates-now-support-the-sbt-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":[3521],"link":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-05-26-dependabot-version-updates-now-support-the-sbt-ecosystem","title":{"rendered":"Dependabot version updates now support the sbt ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Dependabot now supports <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.scala-lang.org\/overviews\/scala-book\/scala-build-tool-sbt.html\">sbt<\/a>. Add sbt as a package ecosystem in your <code>dependabot.yml<\/code> file. 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