What are people using to check if their dependenci...

# gradle

[alexhelder]

What are people using to check if their dependencies are up to date? I was using ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin but it stopped working with Gradle 9 / AGP 8.12.0

[Chris Lee]

dependabot or renovate.

[bishiboosh]

I'll do a quick shout-out for our project https://github.com/deezer/caupain, it's really useful if you want a tool that can quickly gives you the list of dependencies to update

[Vampire]

I usually use a combination of Ben's plugin for reliable checking and display together with refreshVersions to get the new version comments in the version catalog for easy selecting what to update to.

I hope the plugin will be made 9-compatible if it is not yet, didn't upgrade a build where I use it yet :-/

[bishiboosh]

(jsyk my tool also includes a plugin compatible with Gradle 9, however it checks directly the version catalog and does not use Gradle resolution mechanisme, so ymmv)

[bishiboosh]

(so it's technically a bit less precise than ben's implementation, however I tried to adhere as much as possible to what's Gradle is doing in terms of querying for updates, and there's a task that replaces the versions in the catalog for you)

[bishiboosh]

(refreshVersions is also a great tool, we just thought it was a bit too opinionated for us)

[Vampire]

If someone wants to use refreshVersions despite its opinionating, I usually reconfigure the versions.properties file location to be inside layout.buildDirectory as you cannot disable it completely yet, that way it just updates the comments in version catalog 🙂

[bishiboosh]

to each his own 😄

[alexhelder]

@bishiboosh gave caupain a try, it’s terrific! I’m using the command line. Thanks for providing binaries for all platforms

[bishiboosh]

the command line is the "preferred" use of the tool tbh, the Gradle plugin is here because as a long lover of Gradle I couldn't not do one 😁

[bishiboosh]

Really happy to know you like it