Added dependabot automerge and updated dependabot

with this change we're moving to daily dependabot PR merges with automerge

fixes gh-5874

Author: marcingrzejszczak

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -2,32 +2,32 @@ version: 2
 updates:
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
     directory: "/"
-    target-branch: "1.9.x" # oldest supported branch
+    target-branch: "main"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+  #  - package-ecosystem: gradle
+  #    directory: "/"
+  #    schedule:
+  #      interval: monthly
+  #    target-branch: "1.9.x"
+  #    milestone: 136
+  #    ignore:
+  #      # metrics are better with https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/pull/1568 introduced
+  #      # in hystrix 1.5.12, but Netflix re-released 1.5.11 as 1.5.18 late in 2018.
+  #      # <=1.5.11 or 1.5.18 doesn't break with Micrometer, but open metrics won't be correct necessarily.
+  #      - dependency-name: "com.netflix.hystrix:hystrix-core"
+  #      # only upgrade patch versions
+  #      - dependency-name: "*"
+  #        update-types:
+  #          - version-update:semver-major
+  #          - version-update:semver-minor
+  #    open-pull-requests-limit: 30
   - package-ecosystem: gradle
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
-      interval: monthly
-    target-branch: "1.9.x"
-    milestone: 136
-    ignore:
-      # metrics are better with https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/pull/1568 introduced
-      # in hystrix 1.5.12, but Netflix re-released 1.5.11 as 1.5.18 late in 2018.
-      # <=1.5.11 or 1.5.18 doesn't break with Micrometer, but open metrics won't be correct necessarily.
-      - dependency-name: "com.netflix.hystrix:hystrix-core"
-      # only upgrade patch versions
-      - dependency-name: "*"
-        update-types:
-          - version-update:semver-major
-          - version-update:semver-minor
-    open-pull-requests-limit: 15
-  - package-ecosystem: gradle
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: monthly
-    target-branch: "1.11.x"
-    milestone: 206
+      interval: daily
+    target-branch: "1.13.x"
+    milestone: 233
     ignore:
       # metrics are better with https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/pull/1568 introduced
       # in hystrix 1.5.12, but Netflix re-released 1.5.11 as 1.5.18 late in 2018.
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ updates:
         update-types:
           - version-update:semver-major
           - version-update:semver-minor
-    open-pull-requests-limit: 15
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 30
   - package-ecosystem: gradle
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
-      interval: monthly
-    target-branch: "1.12.x"
-    milestone: 211
+      interval: daily
+    target-branch: "1.14.x"
+    milestone: 250
     ignore:
       # metrics are better with https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/pull/1568 introduced
       # in hystrix 1.5.12, but Netflix re-released 1.5.11 as 1.5.18 late in 2018.
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ updates:
         update-types:
           - version-update:semver-major
           - version-update:semver-minor
-    open-pull-requests-limit: 15
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 30
   - package-ecosystem: gradle
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
-      interval: monthly
+      interval: daily
     target-branch: "main"
     milestone: 185
     ignore:
@@ -71,4 +71,4 @@ updates:
       - dependency-name: "*"
         update-types:
           - version-update:semver-major
-    open-pull-requests-limit: 25
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 50

.github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name: Merge Dependabot PR
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - '*.x'
+
+run-name: Merge Dependabot PR ${{ github.ref_name }}
+
+jobs:
+  merge-dependabot-pr:
+    permissions: write-all
+
+    uses: spring-io/spring-github-workflows/.github/workflows/spring-merge-dependabot-pr.yml@v5
+    with:
+      mergeArguments: --auto --squash
+      autoMergeSnapshots: true