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## New features and usability improvements

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<!--

                }

                // Referent is not configured and wasn't invalidated
                // This can be a case in an incremental sync scenario, when referrer script was changed and since re-configured,
                // but referent wasn't changed and since wasn't configured.
                delegate < referrer && delegate.state.isUnconfigured && !buildModelParameters.isInvalidateCoupledProjects -> {

        }

        compositeBuildsDeclaredSubstitutions {
            sampleDirectory = samplesRoot.dir("build-organization/composite-builds/declared-substitution")
            description = "Applying and testing changes in downstream dependencies without publishing."
            category = "Build organization"
        }

        compositeBuildsHierarchicalMultirepo {

                }
                if (host.startParameterProperties != startParameterProperties) {
                    return "the set of Gradle properties has changed"
                }
                if (host.ignoreInputsInConfigurationCacheTaskGraphWriting != ignoreInputsInConfigurationCacheTaskGraphWriting) {
                    return "the set of ignored configuration inputs has changed"
                }

import org.gradle.internal.model.ValueCalculator
import org.gradle.internal.serialize.Decoder
import org.gradle.internal.serialize.Encoder
import org.gradle.util.Path


/**
 * In charge of serializing and deserializing the project components for Isolated Projects.
 */
internal
class ProjectMetadataController(
    private val host: DefaultConfigurationCache.Host,
    private val cacheIO: ConfigurationCacheIO,

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## New features and usability improvements

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<!--

        api(libs.gson)                  { version { strictly("2.10") }}
        api(libs.h2Database)            { version { strictly("2.2.220") }}
        api(libs.hamcrestCore)              { version { strictly("1.3"); because("2.x changes the API") }}
        api(libs.hikariCP)              { version { strictly("4.0.3"); because("5.x requires Java 11+") }}
        api(libs.httpcore)              { version { strictly("4.4.14") }}

                if (parentPath != referrerProject.path) {
                    // even though the task was not found, the current project is coupled with the other project:
                    // if the configuration of that project changes, the result of this call might be different
                    val coupledProjects = listOfNotNull(parentPath?.let { referrerProject.findProject(it) })
                    reportCrossProjectTaskAccess(coupledProjects, path)

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test


class SortAcceptedApiChangesTaskIntegrationTest : AbstractAcceptedApiChangesMaintenanceTaskIntegrationTest() {
    @Test
    fun `verify misordered changes can be sorted`() {
        //language=JSON
        firstAcceptedApiChangesFile.writeText(
            """
                {
                    "acceptedApiChanges": [
                        {

import com.google.gson.Gson
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder
import org.gradle.api.tasks.CacheableTask
import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction


/**
 * This [Task][org.gradle.api.Task] reorders the changes in an accepted API changes files
 * so that they are alphabetically sorted (by type, then member).
 */
@CacheableTask
abstract class SortAcceptedApiChangesTask : AbstractAcceptedApiChangesMaintenanceTask() {

    @TaskAction