How to update Gradle dependencies to their latest version

Question

Is there an easy way to get gradle to update dependencies to their latest available version?

For build reproducibility all my dependencies are defined with a version

Answer 1

Add to build.gradle:

plugins {
  id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.17.0'
}

Then you can do gradle dependencyUpdates to get a report of new versions. Unlike the eponymous Maven plugin, there doesn't seem to be a way of automatically updating the build.gradle yet.

More documentation: https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin