The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 5.1.

This release features repository to dependency matching, production-ready configuration avoidance APIs, Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.1, and more.

Read the Gradle 5.x upgrade guide to learn about breaking changes and considerations for upgrading from Gradle 5.0.
If upgrading from Gradle 4.x, please read upgrading from Gradle 4.x to 5.0 first.

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:
Mike Kobit,
Kent Fletcher,
Niklas Grebe,
Jonathan Leitschuh,
Sebastian Schuberth,
Dan Sănduleac,
Olivier Voortman,
Alex Saveau,
and Till Krullmann.

See the full set of release notes.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 5.1 by updating your wrapper properties:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=5.1

Standalone downloads are available at gradle.org/releases.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with Gradle 5.1, 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 5.1, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.