Does anybody know if Intellij IDEA supports dependency version update hints for gradle? I can see vu...

# intellij

[aaverin]

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

[Javier]

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.

[aaverin]

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

[Javier]

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

[aaverin]

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

[aaverin]

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

[Sam]

Code -> Analyze Code -> Run inspection by name -> Check for new dependency versions 👌

[aaverin]

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

[Sam]

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 🤔

[aaverin]

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

[aaverin]

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

[aaverin]

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[aaverin]

While there are plenty of new version in Maven

[aaverin]

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.

[aaverin]

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

[Javier]

subprojects block is not recommended

[aaverin]

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

[aaverin]

only works on my root gradle file