42333 has introduced a way to abstract repositories. https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/d44e7c9af2ff7fb21234f1434c9ed04fccf324bf in particular is replacing the repositories and pluginRepositories section of the integration tests. But plugins have a different structure so this fails as follows:

[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective settings |  
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  | [WARNING] Unrecognised tag: 'repository' (position: START_TAG seen ...</pluginRepository>\n\t\t\t\t<repository>... @53:17)  @ /tmp/maven-build14127127292523585751/settings.xml, line 53, column 17 |  
  | [WARNING]