Gradle Kotlin project dependentbot not upgrading or raising PR for new versions

Question

I have a Gradle Kotlin project where I define dependencies using an object for versioning, like so:

object Versions {
const val MICROMETER = "1.11.5"
}
dependencies {
    implementation("io.micrometer:micrometer-core:${Versions.MICROMETER}")
}

  
    

I've noticed that the dependent bot doesn't automatically upgrade or raise a pull request to update to the new version when a new version of the dependency is available. Interestingly, when I simplify the setup without using the object for versioning, as shown below:

dependencies {
    implementation("io.micrometer:micrometer-core:1.11.5")
}

The dependent bot does raise a pull request for upgrading to the new version.

Is there a specific configuration or setting I'm missing in my Gradle Kotlin project that would enable the dependentbot to automatically upgrade dependencies when using an object for versioning?

Answer 1

Not directly, but you can use version catalogs. Create a libs.versions.toml file in your gradle folder (where the gradle wrapper files are). And declare your versions and dependencies in that file.

[versions]
micrometer = "1.11.5"

[libraries]
micrometer-core = { module = "io.micrometer:micrometer-core", version.ref = "micrometer " }

And use it like this

dependencies {
    implementation(libs.micrometer.core)
}