How can you enable http maven repos again? I've worked at places where there's privately hosted in-VPN http-based repos which is perfectly fine in the context.
I believe you can change the default blocked repo settings in the m2 settings.xml but I don’t have a link handy
Is this is a direct result of upgrading maven, rather than a conscious tdeps choice? (as I interpreted it)
Yeah, I think that's the case. I didn't realize you were replicating maven's release notes 🙂