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• ba88e30 - feat: add Gradle DSL functions for deprecated tag forms of selectors
• f927119 - Feat: Implement new Gradle DSL for consumer version selectors
• 5acf7d2 - refactor(Gradle): use delegation instead of inheritance to allow supporting Gradle 8 changes
• 8327184 - feat(Gradle): Add auth option for no auth
• de753fc - feat: allow consumer version selector JSON to be provided with an environment variable
• 0fa5b5e - fix: make the use of content type overrides consistent #1569
• 7a2a77b - docs: link to 'Using provider states effectively' #1571 (Édouard Lopez)
• 0e41131 - chore: add example tests with attributes that contain slashes #1556