diff --git a/hardening_manifest.yaml b/hardening_manifest.yaml
index 9aa96f66989fb62669f4afd5eed941840bd1a959..b79ccac60408be51d4902f48a5c3a375af6426b6 100644
--- a/hardening_manifest.yaml
+++ b/hardening_manifest.yaml
@@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ maintainers:
   name: "Adam Martin"
 #   # The gitlab username of the current container owner
   username: "adam.martin"
-  cht_member: true
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+  cht_member: true
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index 3a10b80db0843ef47a3b5cd4ebaa4f321b0d1822..3c9a97a3cce023316f24eea2cda3cfa488ef7900 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
     "baseBranches": [
       "development"
     ],
+    "automerge": true,
+    "gitLabAutomerge": true,
     "regexManagers": [
       {
         "fileMatch": [
@@ -15,7 +17,18 @@
         ],
         "depNameTemplate": "registry1.dso.mil/ironbank/python/python39",
         "datasourceTemplate": "docker"
-      }
+      },
+      {
+      "fileMatch": [
+        "^hardening_manifest.yaml$"
+      ],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "org\\.opencontainers\\.image\\.version:\\s+\"(?<currentValue>.+?)\"",
+        "tags:\\s+-\\s+\"(?<currentValue>.+?)\""
+      ],
+      "depNameTemplate": "truffleHog3",
+      "datasourceTemplate": "pypi"
+    }
     ]
   }
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+