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Just want to say that the ben-manes plugin has a bunch of configurations that I could never figure out. I applied this plugin instead and bam. It just works. Thank you so much!

Add an task to let the user update the versions stepwise,

The plugin is currently written in a way that both the inclusions and exclusions cannot be kept and extended. Instead one has to redefine them entirely if an additional pattern is to be added. This is because the qualifiers are hardcoded in the plugin, and applied only if the list is not empty. It would be better to switch to Gradle's property API in the extension, with the defaults already added. This way users can decide if they want to add or set.

I'm happy to provide a patch, but once I'm back from holiday's in January. 😉

Something that happens a lot is that I have alpha dependencies and they go to beta or they go to alphax+1, but they don't show in the list because stable is there. How can I configure this to show me newer versions of the dependency if I'm already on alpha.

I tried to work around #7 by using …

tasks.dependencyUpdates {
    checkConstraints = true
    rejectVersionIf { /* custom code */ }
}

… but the instant I apply this all the rules of this plugin are ignored. I could not figure out why by simply looking at the sources here at GitHub, but I assume it is something trivial. Again, happy to provide a pull request, but only after holidays. 🎅