I have a new idea to incorporate this feature into the plugin for the purpose of using dynamic version dependencies

[zhangsg1234]

The extension function of this plug-in I used and another plug-in can be extended to resolve the latest.release dependency version to the real version number when tagging, and restore the latest.release function when switching to the next snapshot version. I think it is necessary for the author to integrate this function into the plugin if he has time.

1. import this plugin

   id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version "${versions_plugin_version}"

2. Naming rules for version number variable names Plugin version number：artifactID_plugin_version Regular version number：artifactID_version

3. extended content

   release{
   tasks.register('extractLatestReleaseProperty') {
       doLast {
           def directoryPath = "${buildDir}/latestReleaseProperty"
   
           def directory = new File(directoryPath)
           if (!directory.exists()) {
               directory.mkdirs()
               println "Directory created: $directoryPath"
           } else {
               println "Directory already exists: $directoryPath"
           }
           def outputFilePath = "${directoryPath}/report.txt"
   
           def properties = new Properties()
           properties.load(new FileInputStream('gradle.properties'))
   
           def propertyKeys = []
   
           properties.each { key, value ->
               if (value == 'latest.release') {
                   propertyKeys << key
               }
           }
           file(outputFilePath).write(propertyKeys.join('\n'))
           println "Latest release property extracted and saved to: $outputFilePath"
       }
   }
   tasks.register('changeRealVersion') {
       doLast {
   
           def latestReleaseList = new File("${buildDir}/latestReleaseProperty/report.txt")
                   .readLines();
           def realReleaseList = new File("${buildDir}/dependencyUpdates/report.txt").readLines().findAll { line ->
               line.contains(' - ')
           }
           Properties gradleProperties = new Properties()
           File propertiesFile = file("gradle.properties")
           gradleProperties.load(propertiesFile.newDataInputStream())
           latestReleaseList
                   .each { latestReleaseLine ->
                       realReleaseList.each { realReleaseLine ->
                           if (latestReleaseLine.contains('plugin')) {
                               if (realReleaseLine.contains(latestReleaseLine.replace('_plugin_version', '').replaceAll('_', '-'))) {
                                   gradleProperties.setProperty(latestReleaseLine, realReleaseLine.substring(realReleaseLine.lastIndexOf(":") + 1))
                                     return
                               }
                           } else {
                               if (realReleaseLine.contains(latestReleaseLine.replace('_version', '').replaceAll('_', '-'))) {
                                   gradleProperties.setProperty(latestReleaseLine, realReleaseLine.substring(realReleaseLine.lastIndexOf(":") + 1))
                                   return
                               }
                           }
                       }
                   }
           FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(propertiesFile)
           gradleProperties.store(output, null)
           output.close()
       }
   }
   tasks.register('recoveryLatestReleaseVersion') {
   doLast {
       def latestReleaseList = new File("${buildDir}/latestReleaseProperty/report.txt")
               .readLines();
       Properties gradleProperties = new Properties()
       File propertiesFile = file("gradle.properties")
       gradleProperties.load(propertiesFile.newDataInputStream())
       latestReleaseList.each { latestReleaseLine ->
           gradleProperties.setProperty(latestReleaseLine, 'latest.release')
       }
       FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(propertiesFile)
       gradleProperties.store(output, null)
       output.close()
   }
   }
   tasks {
       dependencyUpdates.dependsOn clean
       extractLatestReleaseProperty.dependsOn dependencyUpdates
       createScmAdapter.dependsOn extractLatestReleaseProperty
       unSnapshotVersion.dependsOn changeRealVersion
       updateVersion.dependsOn recoveryLatestReleaseVersion
       commitNewVersion.dependsOn clean
   
   }
   }

   These only contain my additions