Looking for assistance with fixing an app's metadata

What I was struggling with before was that it appeared we’d have to replace more than one line, given for example:

versionCode = providers .environmentVariable(“VERSION_CODE”) .orNull ?.toIntOrNull() ?: Int.MAX_VALUE

But the author of the current pull request did a crafty $$VERCODE$$ ?:replacement, which I assume is Gradle SDL for taking the first parameter by default and ignores the remainder of the code block. I learned a lot on this journey and greatly appreciate everyone’s work to simplify this.

If I could ask a follow up question, do we need/want another pull request to fill in the remaining releases between 2.1.0 and the current release that was PRed in?