SpringBoot Spring boot plugin at least since version 2.3.8.RELEASE included 2.4.2 that brokes badly IDE Apache Netbeans

Refers https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5293

Handling of project dependencies in gradle multiproject seems changed from 2.2.13.RELEASE in as it is seen a project resolving issue in Apache Netbeans IDE it is needed to explicitly specify a "configuration" on project dependencies in context of: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.DependencyHandler.html#N1748D

It is not even documented and it is even not clear what configuration is the best.

Comment From: netbeansuser2019

JDK 11+ Gradle 6.8.1 Spring Boot 2.3.8 and 2.4.2 (so plugin 'org.springframework.boot')

Comment From: wilkinsona

Thanks for the report but tracking the same problem in two different places is likely to result in wasted effort. I'll keep an eye on the NetBeans issue and will help if there's anything to be done on the Spring Boot side.