Latest version of org.jetbrains.kotlin dependencies are not being found

[xenomachina]

With gradle.properties:

kotlin_version = 1.8.22

and build.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.50.0'
    id 'java-gradle-plugin'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}

And Gradle wrapper 8.1.1 or 8.5, running ./gradlew dependencyUpdates incorrectly reports that the org.jetbrains.kotlin dependencies are up to date, despite the fact that there are newer versions of these dependencies:

The following dependencies are using the latest milestone version:
 - org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-compiler-embeddable:1.8.22
 - org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-klib-commonizer-embeddable:1.8.22

It looks like this bug was introduced in 0.47.0, as downgrading gradle-versions-plugin to 0.46.0 fixes this problem. With that version, ./gradlew dependencyUpdates correctly reports:

The following dependencies have later milestone versions:
 - com.github.ben-manes.versions:com.github.ben-manes.versions.gradle.plugin [0.46.0 -> 0.50.0]
 - org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib [1.8.22 -> 2.0.0-Beta3]
     https://kotlinlang.org/

In this discussion, @ben-manes indicated that this may be related to #768.

cc: @tresat @jvandort

[ben-manes]

I confirmed that reverting #768 resolves your problem.

1. Set local jdk to 11 (jenv local 11.0)
2. git revert 852c610360ae47494e8da41a120aead37bb06a9b
3. Incremented VERSION_NAME in gradle.properties
4. Published locally (publishToMavenLocal)
5. Ran your sample with the local plugin by adding mavenLocal() as a plugin repository

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.github.ben-manes.versions'
apply plugin: 'java-gradle-plugin'

buildscript {
  repositories {
    // Use 'gradle install' to install latest
    mavenLocal()
    gradlePluginPortal()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.50.1'
  }
}

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.22"
  implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.8.22"
}

console report

➜  groovy git:(master) ✗ gradle dU
executing gradlew instead of gradle

> Task :dependencyUpdates

------------------------------------------------------------
: Project Dependency Updates (report to plain text file)
------------------------------------------------------------

The following dependencies are using the latest milestone version:
 - com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.50.1

The following dependencies have later milestone versions:
 - org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin [1.8.22 -> 2.0.0-Beta3]
     https://kotlinlang.org/
 - org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib [1.8.22 -> 2.0.0-Beta3]
     https://kotlinlang.org/

Gradle release-candidate updates:
 - Gradle: [8.0.2 -> 8.5 -> 8.6-rc-2]

[ben-manes]

Released, thanks @tresat!