PatchPluginXmlTask wrongly escapes changeNotes tags inside CDATA block

[missingdays]

What happened?

PatchPluginXmlTask wrongly escapes changeNotes tags inside CDATA block, see below

Relevant log output or stack trace

No response

Steps to reproduce

Have the following task

        withType<PatchPluginXmlTask> {
            changeNotes.set(releaseNotes)
        }

where releaseNotes are

val releaseNotes = """<![CDATA[
<a href="123">123</a>
]]>"""

In the resulting plugin.xml, change-notes section will contain the html with escaped values

  <change-notes>&lt;![CDATA[
&lt;a href="123"&gt;123&lt;/a&gt;
]]&gt;</change-notes>

However, according to docs, html inside CDATA block is valid in change-notes

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/plugin-configuration-file.html#idea-plugin__change-notes

Gradle IntelliJ Plugin version

1.16.0

Gradle version

8.3

Operating System

Windows

Link to build, i.e. failing GitHub Action job

No response

[missingdays]

Can this behavior at least be made optional?

[hsz]

Thanks for creating this ticket, Evgeny!

The content passed to <change-notes> and <description> elements is now wrapped with <![CDATA[ ... ]]> by default.

It's possible to turn that off with:

tasks {
    patchPluginXml {
        useCDATA = false
    }
}