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Does anybody know if Intellij IDEA supports dependency version update hints for gradle?
I can see vulnerability fix suggestions, but not version updates.

Yeah, it supports them and recently I have seen them on version catalogs but I think it was on Android Studio and not yet on IDEA.

I think it works for Android, but I would love to see that for Spring Boot too. We are not yet on toml version catalogs, but plan to migrate our backend to it too

Not related to IntelliJ but I highly recommend renovate to upgrade dependencies 

Yes, that’s the plan.
• update dependencies manually in the controlled manner with testing
• integrate version catalogs
• integrate renovate

I am now on the first step and was hoping to avoid the task of manually checking every dependency we have :smiley:

Code -&gt; Analyze Code -&gt; Run inspection by name -&gt; Check for new dependency versions :ok_hand:

nice idea, but didn’t give me any results somehow. like its nothing to update, while I am pretty sure that I have some dependencies that are at least a few months behind

Huh, that’s strange. It works great for me. Perhaps there’s something it doesn’t like about the way you are specifying your dependencies or repositories :thinking_face:

we are not using dependency management from spring boot, but doesn’t seem to be the cause of it

I went into Dependencies tab and ran analysis again.
Many packages give me this:

While there are plenty of new version in Maven

Ok, I see why: <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/package-search-build-system-support-limitations.html>

```For Gradle only a top level dependencies { } block is supported in the build script. Dependencies set from other places (such as a subprojects block in the root build script) are not supported. ```

So Package Search is basically useless if you have submodules in the project (and who doesn’t?)

I don’t have subprojects block, but I do have other modules in the project and Package Search doesn’t work there too