diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 277972792..31197c323 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -10,10 +10,8 @@ updates:
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
     ignore:
-      # a few dependencies get a lot of patch updates that become pretty noisy
-      - dependency-name: "libc"
+      # skip patch updates, as they can be quite noisy, but keep
+      # minor and major updates so that we don't fall too far
+      # behind
+      - dependency-name: "*"
         update-types: ["version-update:semver-patch"]
-      - dependency-name: "clap"
-        update-types: ["version-update:semver-patch"]
-
-