8.8 RC1
Pre-release
The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.8 RC1.
We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Björn Kautler,
Denes Daniel,
Fabian Windheuser,
Hélio Fernandes Sebastião,
Jay Wei,
jhrom,
jwp345,
Jörgen Andersson,
Kirill Gavrilov,
MajesticMagikarpKing,
Maksim Lazeba,
Philip Wedemann,
Robert Elliot,
Róbert Papp,
Stefan M.,
Tibor Vyletel,
Tony Robalik,
Valentin Kulesh,
Yanming Zhou,
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Upgrade instructions
Switch your build to use Gradle 8.8 RC1 by updating your wrapper:
./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.8-rc-1
See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.
For Java, Groovy, Kotlin and Android compatibility, see the full compatibility notes.
Reporting problems
If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.
We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.