so intellij seems to be indicating that the common module is attempting to use 1.7.4.RELEASE of spring-rabbit instead of 1.7.3, even though 1.7.3 is specified

my question would be how are you importing the spring stuff, an educated guess would be because gradle doesn't do what you think/want in this case

Hmm. I had seen that issue, but didn't tie it to this.

well, just depends on whether you are using the IMPROVED_POM_SUPPORT or the spring gradle plugin

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