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It does nothing for you. It is just a relict from times where Gradle did not have built-in BOM support. You shouldn't use it, but the built-in support using

platform(...)

. Even its maintainer says that.

Oh, amazing! I did this – way cleaner. I’ll post a little update on my blog, would you be ok with me quoting you? 🙂

would you be ok with me quoting you?

Sure

It’s really just that they haven’t had capacity to update documentation, Spring Initializr and such, then?

Probably. I was under the impression that the plugin does a few other things too and it would be helpful if you rely on those things and do not only want the versions, when I learned from linked thread what the maintainer said.

Here’s the little update, where you also get some kudos 🙂