renovate: keep Express at v4

renovate.json5

@@ -137,6 +137,22 @@
     {
       matchPackageNames: ["uuid"],
       allowedVersions: "9.x",
+    },
+    // We specifically provide a first-party integration (`expressMiddleware`
+    // imported from `@apollo/server/express4`) for Express v4 because it is the
+    // most common web framework. (Additionally, as an internal implementation
+    // detail, it is what powers `startStandaloneServer`, though users of that
+    // function should not rely on anything other than that it uses standard
+    // Node `http` request and response objects.) It is easy to build
+    // integrations for other web servers, including Express v5, which is not
+    // yet as popular as Express v4. So we don't plan to provide a built-in
+    // Express v5 implementation any time soon (most likely as part of a new
+    // major version); we appreciate the simplicity of a build system that only
+    // installs one version of any given practice. See
+    // https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/issues/7928.
+    {
+      matchPackageNames: ["express", "@types/express", "@types/express-serve-static-core"],
+      allowedVersions: "4.x",
     }
   ]
 }