allowOlder: Sort/filter releases by timestamp

[rarkins]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

Avoid upgrading to a newer version unless the release timestamp is newer than the current timestamp.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

If there are timestamps for both the current version and a newer-looking version (sorts higher) then it would be filtered out by default.

This would help automatically remove some of the edge cases caused by bad publishing by certain packages, such as mixing date-based versions with semver.

To opt into accepting releases with older release dates, set allowOlder=true

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

Maybe

[rarkins]

There are edge cases where you could have a scenario such as release 1.9.2 being released after 2.0.0, but in nearly every case you should also see another 2.x such as 2.1.0 released after 1.9.2.