Why do so many java developers fail to understand the importance of keeping dependencies up to date?

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  • gradle-versions-plugin

    Gradle plugin to discover dependency updates

    A lot of developers don't realize that build tools can check this for them. I wrote Gradle's dependency updates plugin after having come from Maven and been surprised that the functionality was missing. A common theme that I've seen from the Android community is an expectation that the linter or IDE will flag it, whereas that only checks Google's dependencies (or at least used to). For server-side, I think most are afraid of breaking things indirectly and want to slide their changes through.

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