Enable auto-merge for renovate (for pathc and minor dependency updates)

[Enda]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I think we should enable auto-merge on minor and patch updates. We disabled this ahead of 1.0 but since this is passed it is good to keep up to date (for security reasons more than anything).

Updates are managed with renovate

[Manyanda Chitimbo]

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/cc @machi1990, @wtrocki

[Rajiv]

hi, i would like to work on this issue, can you you suggest me the way to get started

[Enda]

Hi @rajivrtk11 - thanks! The best thing to do is to look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file. The issue describes what is required.