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Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1 Release Notes We are excited to announce Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1.

At last! @gradle.com 9.1 (still rc1) offers a "native" way to visualize the task graph with `--task-graph` !
(Also now runs on jdk 25)

docs.gradle.org/9.1.0-rc-1/r...

Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1 Release Notes We are excited to announce Gradle 9.1.0-rc-1.

📣 Gradle 9.1.0 RC1 is out and ready for testing! It includes bug fixes and…

☕ Full Java 25 support
🔧 Native task graph visualization
💼 Enhanced console output

Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!

docs.gradle.org/9.1.0-rc-1/r...

Gradle 9.0.0-rc-4 Release Notes We are excited to announce Gradle 9.0.0-rc-4.

The new release candidate for Gradle 9 is out! 🚀

We want to ship the final version soon, and we'd appreciate your feedback and any regression reports. docs.gradle.org/9.0.0-rc-4/r...

shipping faster doesn't necessarily mean you're in a better place, esp when you don't have the right processes/pipelines

how can you keep a good dev pace while being confident your code is bug-free?

join Benjie and Erin at #DPESummit in SF and find out!

@gradle.com #DevEx #DX

Early Access Program (EAP) - IntelliJ IDEA Code-centric IDE, focused on your productivity. Full Java EE support, deep code understanding, best debugger, refactorings, everything right out of the box...

Hi, thanks for reporting. The latest 2025.2 EAP builds will be enough, with the same flags as documented in declarative.gradle.org/docs/getting... . Note that @asciidwarf.bsky.social (me) is yet to test it :)

See the EAP version here - www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextver...

Gradle 9.0.0-rc-1 Release Notes We are excited to announce Gradle 9.0.0-rc-1.

📣 #Gradle 9.0.0 RC1 is ready for testing!

🔧 Configuration Cache is the recommended execution mode
☕ Gradle requires Java 17+ to run
💼 Update to #Kotlin 2.1 and #Groovy 4.0
⚡ Improve Kotlin build script compilation avoidance

Please report any 🐛 on GitHub! docs.gradle.org/9.0.0-rc-1/r...

Tony Robalik — DEV Community Profile I do software for a living.

Very nice blog posts by Tony Robalik (@autonomousapps.bsky.social) on @gradle.com working, plugin authoring

dev.to/autonomousapps
#gradle

Glad to see the #cloudnative project #GatewayAPI covered on stage @devoxxpl.bsky.social by @davinkevin.fr

@cncf.io #kubernetes @gradle.com

GenAI Won't Replace Your Continuous Delivery Pipeline—It Will Stress It Ready to harness the power of GenAI without disrupting your software delivery? Learn how to ensure reliable testing, maintain human oversight of AI code, optimize your continuous delivery pipelines, a...

A couple of months ago, Hans (CEO of @gradle.com) started thinking about the impact GenAI will have on CD pipelines. I've been working with him and a bunch of talented folks at Gradle since then to outline the problems and our solutions to them. Check out our whitepaper

gradle.com/resources/eb...

May 2025 Gradle Newsletter This month we’re excited to present the new Gradle Best Practices pages and the accepted GSoC projects. We also have updates on the Gradle 9 release and the changes to Maven Central publishing coming ...

FTR newsletter.gradle.org/2025/05#mave... . We also published the first recommendation pages on our side in cookbook.gradle.org/integrations...

GitHub - deezer/caupain: Your best buddy for keeping versions catalogs up to date! Your best buddy for keeping versions catalogs up to date! - deezer/caupain

🛠️ Our Android teams just open-sourced a fast and simple tool to check for dependencies updates in a @gradle.com project: github.com/deezer/caupain

Feel free to check it out and file any issue if you need anything more!

The Productive Developer’s Guide to Flaky Tests Learn practical strategies for minimizing the negative impact of flaky tests and fostering a culture of test reliability.

The awesome team at @gradle.com have taken my blog posts and Opinions about Flaky Tests and put them all together in a very wonderful white paper!

Whether you care about #FlakyTests or think you don't have them, there's something in here for you.

#DeveloperProductivity #TestAutomation

That small line saved GB of RAM on my poor laptop.

If you're working on multiple #Gradle projects, strongly recommend changing the default timeout.

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it!

blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-...
#gradle

Webinar - Declarative Gradle: A developer-first approach to Gradle builds, Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup As Uncle Ben once said to ~~Toby Maguire~~ Spider-Man, "With great power comes great responsibility". Here at Gradle we like to say, "With great flexibility comes great pow

🐘 We finally got a meetup page for Gradle Build Tool Community events and webinars! The next stream on Declarative Gradle is tomorrow! @gradle.com www.meetup.com/virtual-grad...

Please stay tuned for the announcement and guidelines later this month. We are working on it (c)

YouTube video by Gradle Gradle Build Tool 8.12.1 - What's new and team demos

What's new in Gradle 8.12.1, which we released last month? Check out the team's demos, and stay tuned for 8.13!

🪜 Enhanced reporting with the Problems API
🧰 File-system watching support on Alpine #Linux
🍎 Build and test #Swift 6 libraries and apps

youtu.be/eAfhNePv664?...

Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary Highlights from Android Studio's 10th anniversary of its stable release, showcasing its mission to empower Android developers with excellent tools.

Happy 10th anniversary, Android Studio! 🎂 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/andr...

Thank you! We are working on it (c)

Roadmap - Declarative Gradle Declarative Gradle is a project targeting better separation of concerns and expressing any build in a clear and understandable way.

Eagerly waiting for declarative @gradle.com third Early Access Preview (EAP 3) declarative.gradle.org/docs/ROADMAP/

January 2025 Gradle Newsletter We’re kicking off the New Year with exciting updates: explore the Gradle 8.12 release and the latest blogs, videos, and releases, as well as an update on our involvement in the Kotlin Foundation. Plus...

The January newsletter edition is live! We’re kicking off the New Year with the Gradle 8.12.1 release, 10 Years of Android Studio, Kotlin Foundation updates, and many new blog posts and videos! newsletter.gradle.org/2025/01

Full room at Die Mobiliar's internal conference, and a nice convo about @quarkus.io, @wiremock.bsky.social, Testcontainers, and @gradle.com

TL;DR: Shift left your integration tests with modern dev tools tools! 🧑‍💻

Want to try out Declarative Gradle? With gradle init, you can bootstrap a test project within a few seconds: blog.gradle.org/declarative-...

Declarative Gradle - November 2024 Update Introduction

I dig the new declarative @gradle.com dialect!
Specifically, I like how fast it is.

blog.gradle.org/declarative-...

Gradle 8.12 Release Notes Enhanced error and warning reporting, file-system watching on Alpine Linux, and Swift 6 support.

🎄🎅 Gradle 8.12 is out! docs.gradle.org/8.12/release...

🪜 Better error/warning reporting with Problems API
🧰 File-system watching support on Alpine Linux
🍎 Build and test Swift 6 libraries and apps
🐛 Bug fixes

📢 Gradle 8.12 RC2 is out and ready for testing! If user feedback is good, there might be a Christmas release 🎅🎄

🪜 Better error/warning reporting with Problems API
🧰 File-system watching support on Alpine Linux
🍎 Build and test Swift 6 libraries and apps
🐛 Bug fixes

docs.gradle.org/8.12-rc-2/re...

Thank you!

Issues · gradle/gradle Adaptable, fast automation for all. Contribute to gradle/gradle development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is not something that's on our radars but it could be a good addition indeed. The same goes for requiring a wrapper to be used in the build settings file.

A ticket would be appreciated: github.com/gradle/gradl...

Declarative Gradle - November 2024 Update Introduction

Have you tried out Declarative Gradle already? blog.gradle.org/declarative-...

Screenshot of Android Studio 1.0 in dark theme with the source editor on the right, and multi-configuration layout preview on the right showing a layout across a variety of devices.

Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉

We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014:
android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...