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for the first, <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25123> and I don't think there's a solution

for the second, have you considered publishing the version catalog?

That's what we've done. Once we got ours published to our sonatype nexus, the pain became a lot less.

For the second issue: I publish a Version string  in my plugin, consume this plugin in my build logic, create a precompiled settings plugin that uses this version string to consume my also published version catalogs and apply the settings plugin in my root project settings. Which this combination I am able to update the version in only one place, the libs.versions.toml