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chore(dependabot): hold the conventionalcommits preset at 9.x - #623

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#616 pinned conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits to ^9.3.1 to unbreak the release pipeline. Dependabot immediately proposed ^10.4.0 again in the next dev-dependencies group (#620).

Merging that would restore the exact failure #616 fixed: the 10.x line requires conventional-changelog-writer@9, semantic-release@25 bundles @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@14 which depends on writer ^8, and generateNotes dies with

Missing helper: "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits requires
conventional-changelog-writer@9 or newer"

before any release is cut — blocking all app releases, as it did earlier tonight.

The hold was missing from the batch added in #617; that was an oversight, since #616 had pinned the package minutes before.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Manual testing

YAML parses; the ignore list now covers nine packages. #617's holds are already confirmed working — the regenerated group PR (#620) no longer carries TypeScript 7, where its predecessor (#606) did.

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  • My code follows the project's style guidelines
  • I have performed a self-review of my code

Additional Notes

Only majors are held; 9.x minors and patches still flow. Unhold this alongside a semantic-release major that ships a writer-9 generator.

#620 should not be merged until this lands, and even then it wants a look: it also carries vitest and @vitest/coverage-v8 4 → 5, @semantic-release/changelog 6 → 7, @semantic-release/git 10 → 11, and @changesets/changelog-github 0.7 → 1.0. Those are majors riding inside a grouped dev-dependency bump, and the changesets one interacts with the CLI v2-vs-v3 question left open by the 1.0 graduation merge reverting #593.

#616 pinned conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits to ^9.3.1 to unbreak
the release pipeline, and Dependabot immediately proposed ^10.4.0 again in
the next dev-dependencies group (#620). Merging that would restore the
exact failure #616 fixed: the 10.x line requires
conventional-changelog-writer@9, semantic-release 25 bundles a generator
depending on writer ^8, and generateNotes dies before any release is cut.

The hold was missing from the batch added in #617 — an oversight, since
#616 had pinned it minutes earlier.
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