The spring boot plugin hijacks dependency resolution in the most annoying way making it incredibly painful to try to force your own version of any dependency; in my experience.

jlleitschuh: could you provide any concrete use cases? Did you see that Boot and Dependency plugin are now cleanly splitted? https://spring.io/blog/2017/04/05/spring-boot-s-new-gradle-plugin#dependency-management

Ok I will have a deeper look