Use gradle-versions-plugin to check for dependency updates.

[johnjohndoe]

Description

• This plugin adds the dependencyUpdates Gradle task.
• Configure to only offer stable versions.
• Plugin website: https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin

Command + example output

$ ./gradlew dependencyUpdates

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

The following dependencies are using the latest milestone version:
 - com.github.ben-manes.versions:com.github.ben-manes.versions.gradle.plugin:0.33.0
 - commons-lang:commons-lang:2.6

The following dependencies have later milestone versions:
 - com.github.johnrengelman.shadow:com.github.johnrengelman.shadow.gradle.plugin [5.1.0 -> 6.1.0]
 - com.google.guava:guava [11.0.2 -> 23.0]
     https://github.com/google/guava
 - commons-io:commons-io [2.2 -> 2.8.0]
     https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/
 - org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-backports-compat23 [2.3.9 -> 3.0.6]
     https://groovy-lang.org
 - org.gradle:gradle-tooling-api [5.6.2 -> 6.7]
 - org.jetbrains.intellij:org.jetbrains.intellij.gradle.plugin [0.4.13 -> 0.5.0]
 - org.slf4j:slf4j-simple [1.7.2 -> 1.7.30]
     http://www.slf4j.org

Failed to determine the latest version for the following dependencies (use --info for details):
 - com.jetbrains:ideaIC

Gradle current updates:
 - Gradle: [5.6.2 -> 6.7]

Generated report file build/dependencyUpdates/report.txt

[johnjohndoe]

@rholder Are you still maintaining this project?