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in the 8.6 <https://docs.gradle.org/8.6/release-notes.html|release notes> I read, "Better error reporting of circular references in providers"
```// wrong, self-references only supported via #update()
property.set(property.map { "$it and more" })```
which `update()` does it refer to?

AFAIK this is actually an API that was prototyped at some point but possibly never made it to a public release.
<https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/27342/files#diff-293bcc5794b701cdd8ec5d40f1d84e4288a150a4a35f900db91b9fb40bd28daa>

it looks like this `update`/`replace` is a very unlucky <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/commits/master/subprojects/core-api/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/provider/Property.java|method> :smile:

Yeah, it almost made it into a release twice.
Last time it was pulled out again I think days before the release, as there was a problem found with conventions set on properties and then the method used.
That it is still mentioned in that example is actually a documentation bug