As part of [_Configure Gradle to Allow Listing All Subproject Dependencies_]({{<ref2020-07-27-gradle-list-all-dependencies>}}), I wanted to utilise [Gradle initscripts](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/init_scripts.html) to provide a global task across all my projects.
Every so often, I need to list the dependency tree for my Gradle projects, which doesn't work out-of-the-box when using subprojects. I [bookmarked](/mf2/2020/05/3clzz/) the great post [_Gradle tricks – display dependencies for all subprojects in multi-project build_](https://solidsoft.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/gradle-tricks-display-dependencies-for-all-subprojects-in-multi-project-build/) as I so regularly come back to it, as it solves the issue for us.
Today I was doing some Spring Boot updates, and found that updating past `2.3.1.RELEASE` resulted in the following error when trying to build in IntelliJ: