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-## New and noteworthy
+The Gradle team has an important update to [3.4](https://docs.gradle.org/3.4/release-notes). This release fixes critical defects to the Java incremental compilation that may prevent recompilation.
 
-Here are the new features introduced in this Gradle release.
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-## Promoted features
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-Promoted features are features that were incubating in previous versions of Gradle but are now supported and subject to backwards compatibility.
-See the User guide section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.
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+It does not include any new features. We recommend anyone upgrading from an older version to upgrade straight to Gradle 3.4.1 instead of Gradle 3.4.
 
 ## Fixed issues
 
-## Deprecations
-
-Features that have become superseded or irrelevant due to the natural evolution of Gradle become *deprecated*, and scheduled to be removed
-in the next major Gradle version (Gradle 4.0). See the User guide section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.
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-The following are the newly deprecated items in this Gradle release. If you have concerns about a deprecation, please raise it via the [Gradle Forums](https://discuss.gradle.org).
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-## Potential breaking changes
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-## External contributions
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-We would like to thank the following community members for making contributions to this release of Gradle.
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-We love getting contributions from the Gradle community. For information on contributing, please see [gradle.org/contribute](https://gradle.org/contribute).
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 ## Known issues
 
 Known issues are problems that were discovered post release that are directly related to changes made in this release.