Latest.release OR latest.integration : getting across multiple repositories : seems to pick the first repo only

Does latest.release OR latest.integration, or a version depend like 1.2.+ get the highest number checking across all repos? For example, the build has
mavenLocal followed by
mavenCentral

It seems that IF any version is found in mavenLocal, mavenCentral is not consulted at all.

I thought this was fixed a while ago, but I may be wrong. Have you tried with a recent Gradle version?

experienced it in gradle 4.7