renovate.json

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      "description": "Pinned to 10.0.3 deliberately: Playnite loads its own Newtonsoft.Json into the plugin AppDomain, and referencing a different version causes assembly load failures at runtime. Those surface as silently swallowed exceptions inside try/catch blocks rather than build errors, so an upgrade here looks green and fails in production. The test project pins the same version plus a binding redirect for the same reason.",
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      "description": "xunit v3 dropped .NET Framework 4.6.2 and requires net472 or later; this project targets net462. Upgrades fail restore with NU1202 rather than producing a usable build, so hold at 2.x. Minor and patch updates within 2.x are still proposed.",
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