This opens up the ability of dependency locking and the now-stable Maven
Publish Plugin. Also failOnVersionConflict no longer needs to be
commented out for the dependency insight report.
The new jmh plugin fixes a warning for the newer version of Gradle.
The new AppEngine plugin still produces a warning, but updating it
anyway so people know that upgrading the plugin doesn't fix the problem.
The new android-maven plugin fixes a build problem with the newer
Gradle.
The Visual Studio fixes were necessary starting ~4.4.
https://github.com/gradle/gradle-native/issues/34#issuecomment-335222096
describes the change in behavior.
There's nothing immediately being used as part of this update. It's just
to keep us current and to get us over that Visual Studio change hump.