ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin v0.66.0 on GitHub

Accept io.github.ben-manes.versions in a settings script, and VersionsPlugin in an init script, where the settings plugin was required for each (#1151, #1154, #1155)
Add a public ProblemsReporter for use in a custom outputFormatter, and print the embedded Kotlin count and the --info hint correctly from a PlainTextReporter created there (#1149, #1153)
Report a Gradle update, unresolved dependencies, and configurations that could not be inspected in the problems format, where only outdated dependencies were reported (#1150, #1153)
Add problems to the default outputFormatter, which is now plain,problems (#1153)
Add the projects where a dependency is declared to the JSON and XML reports as declaringProjects (#1153)
Read count in Result and DependenciesGroup from the dependencies, so the JSON and XML reports are correct after a custom outputFormatter removes one (#1153)
Build on Gradle 9.8.1 (#1148)

Tip

Replace io.github.ben-manes.versions.settings with io.github.ben-manes.versions in a settings script, and apply VersionsPlugin in an init script. The earlier ID and the earlier init script still work.

Note

With the new default, on Gradle 8.13 or later, Gradle prints the location of its problems report at the end of a run in which a problem is reported. On Gradle 9.3 or later, each problem is also printed on the console under --warning-mode all. The plain text report is unchanged. Set outputFormatter = "plain" for the earlier behavior.
The number of entries left out for Gradle's embedded Kotlin is written to the JSON and XML reports as a top-level leftOutEmbeddedKotlin, which is 0 where none is left out.
Kotlin code that constructs a Dependency, DependencyOutdated, DependencyLatest, or DependencyUnresolved while leaving an argument to its default has to be recompiled. Java and Groovy callers, and a formatter that only reads the report, are unaffected.
The count constructor arguments of Result and DependenciesGroup are still accepted for backwards compatibility and for the sake of Moshi serialization, but they're ignored.

See Migrating from prior versions.