7.6.1

This is a patch release for 7.6. We recommend using 7.6.1 instead of 7.6.

It fixes the following issues:

• #19065 Platform dependencies not possible in dependency block of test suite plugin
• #22688 Increased memory usage (with -p option)
• #22796 Building gradle itself fails during toolchain download: permission denied copying a file within .gradle/jdks
• #22875 Regression with 7.6: @​pom artifact in JVM library project is no longer found
• #22937 Remove safe credentials reference
• #22973 Kotlin MPP plugin broken with Gradle 7.6 due to signature change in TestResultProcessor
• #23016 toolchainManagement.jvm.javaRepositories should not expose the full surface of NamedDomainObjectList
• #23025 Back-port toolchain related fixes to 7.6.1
• #23053 Auto-provisioning/auto-detection of IBM Semeru toolchains is broken with Gradle 7.6
• #23074 Docs: Build Lifecycle starts halfway through a point
• #23096 Classifiers of version catalog are discarded while copied to anothor dependency
• #23111 Ant closures are broken with Gradle 7.6
• #23178 Mention the Foojay Toolchain Resolver plugin in the Gradle manual
• #23215 Gradle 7.6: high memory usage (android project)
• #23224 Backport to 7.6.1 "Fix for Incremental compilation with modules"
• #23294 "Unable to make progress running work" together with --continue and failing tasks (Backport to 7.6.1)
• #23555 Improve Toolchain related deprecation nagging in 7.6
• #23894 Update EOL policy
• #23910 Backport trusting only full GPG keys in dependency verification [Backport 7.6.1]
• #23941 Typo in v7.6 docs about disabling_the_daemon
• #23985 Resolving of manually created configuration creates a ResolveException

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Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 7.6.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.6.1

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 7.6.1.

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.

6.9.4

This is a patch release for 6.9. We recommend using 6.9.4 instead of 6.9.

It fixes the following issues:

• #23680 Dependency graph resolution: Equivalent excludes can cause un-necessary graph mutations [backport 6.x]
• #23945 Backport trusting only full GPG keys in dependency verification [Backport 6.9.4]
• #23950 Exclude rule merging: missing optimization [backport 6.x]

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Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9.4 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9.4

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.4.

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.

8.0.1

This is a patch release for 8.0. We recommend using 8.0.1 instead of 8.0.

It fixes the following issues:

• #21551 - Document integration of Scala plugin with toolchains and problems with target flag
• #23888 - --no-rebuild suddenly gone without new deprecation cycle and without the reason for its undeprecation being void
• #23905 - Gradle 8.0 fails Scala build with isBlank not found in String class error

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Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0.1

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0.1.

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.

8.0

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abdul Rauf,
Andrei Nevedomskii,
aSemy,
Ben Cox,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Cédric Champeau,
Christoph Dreis,
Clara Guerrero Sánchez,
David Marin Vaquero,
David Morris,
Denis Buzmakov,
Dmitry Pogrebnoy,
Dzmitry Neviadomski,
Eliezer Graber,
Eric Pederson,
Fedor Ihnatkevich,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Herbert von Broeuschmeul,
Hyeonmin Park,
Jeff,
Jendrik Johannes,
Korov,
Marcono1234,
Madhead,
Mariell Hoversholm,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthias Ernst,
Michael Bailey,
Michael Ernst,
Michael Torres,
Pankaj,
prasad-333,
RicardoJiang,
Siddardha Bezawada,
Stephen Topley,
Victor Maldonado,
Vinay Potluri,
Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0.

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.

8.0 RC5

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0 RC5

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abdul Rauf,
Andrei Nevedomskii,
aSemy,
Ben Cox,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Cédric Champeau,
Christoph Dreis,
Clara Guerrero Sánchez,
David Marin Vaquero,
David Morris,
Denis Buzmakov,
Dmitry Pogrebnoy,
Dzmitry Neviadomski,
Eliezer Graber,
Eric Pederson,
Fedor Ihnatkevich,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Herbert von Broeuschmeul,
Hyeonmin Park,
Jeff,
Jendrik Johannes,
Korov,
Marcono1234,
Madhead,
Mariell Hoversholm,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthias Ernst,
Michael Bailey,
Michael Ernst,
Michael Torres,
Pankaj,
prasad-333,
RicardoJiang,
Siddardha Bezawada,
Stephen Topley,
Victor Maldonado,
Vinay Potluri,
Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0-rc-5 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0-rc-5

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0-rc-5.

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.

8.0 RC3

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0 RC3

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abdul Rauf,
Andrei Nevedomskii,
aSemy,
Ben Cox,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Cédric Champeau,
Christoph Dreis,
Clara Guerrero Sánchez,
David Marin Vaquero,
David Morris,
Denis Buzmakov,
Dmitry Pogrebnoy,
Dzmitry Neviadomski,
Eliezer Graber,
Eric Pederson,
Fedor Ihnatkevich,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Herbert von Broeuschmeul,
Hyeonmin Park,
Jeff,
Jendrik Johannes,
Korov,
Marcono1234,
Madhead,
Mariell Hoversholm,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthias Ernst,
Michael Bailey,
Michael Ernst,
Michael Torres,
Pankaj,
prasad-333,
RicardoJiang,
Siddardha Bezawada,
Stephen Topley,
Victor Maldonado,
Vinay Potluri,
Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0-rc-3 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0-rc-3

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0-rc-3.

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.

8.0 RC2

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0 RC2

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abdul Rauf,
Andrei Nevedomskii,
aSemy,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Cédric Champeau,
Christoph Dreis,
Clara Guerrero Sánchez,
David Marin Vaquero,
David Morris,
Denis Buzmakov,
Dmitry Pogrebnoy,
Dzmitry Neviadomski,
Eliezer Graber,
Eric Pederson,
Fedor Ihnatkevich,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Herbert von Broeuschmeul,
Jeff,
Jendrik Johannes,
Korov,
Marcono1234,
Mariell Hoversholm,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthias Ernst,
Michael Ernst,
Michael Torres,
Pankaj,
prasad-333,
RicardoJiang,
Siddardha Bezawada,
Stephen Topley,
Victor Maldonado,
Vinay Potluri,
Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0-rc-2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0-rc-2

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0-rc-2.

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.

8.0 RC1

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0 RC1

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abdul Rauf,
Andrei Nevedomskii,
aSemy,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Cédric Champeau,
Christoph Dreis,
Clara Guerrero Sánchez,
David Marin Vaquero,
David Morris,
Denis Buzmakov,
Dmitry Pogrebnoy,
Dzmitry Neviadomski,
Eliezer Graber,
Eric Pederson,
Fedor Ihnatkevich,
Gabriel Rodriguez,
Herbert von Broeuschmeul,
Jeff,
Jendrik Johannes,
Korov,
Marcono1234,
Mariell Hoversholm,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthias Ernst,
Michael Ernst,
Michael Torres,
Pankaj,
prasad-333,
RicardoJiang,
Siddardha Bezawada,
Stephen Topley,
Victor Maldonado,
Vinay Potluri,
Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0-rc-1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0-rc-1

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0-rc-1.

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.

7.6

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 7.6.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
altrisi,
aSemy,
Ashwin Pankaj,
Aurimas,
BJ Hargrave,
Björn Kautler,
Bradley Turek,
Craig Andrews,
Daniel Lin,
David Morris,
Edmund Mok,
Frosty-J,
Gabriel Feo,
Ivan Gavrilovic,
Jendrik Johannes,
John,
Joseph Woolf,
Karl-Michael Schindler,
Konstantin Gribov,
Leonardo Brondani Schenkel,
Martin d'Anjou,
Michael Bailey,
Pete Bentley,
Rob Bavey,
Sam Snyder,
sll552,
teawithbrownsugar,
Thomas Broadley,
urdak,
Varun Sharma,
Xin Wang

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 7.6 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.6

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 7.6.

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.

7.6 RC4

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 7.6-rc-4.

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
altrisi,
aSemy,
Ashwin Pankaj,
Aurimas,
BJ Hargrave,
Björn Kautler,
Bradley Turek,
Craig Andrews,
Daniel Lin,
David Morris,
Edmund Mok,
Frosty-J,
Gabriel Feo,
Ivan Gavrilovic,
Jendrik Johannes,
John,
Joseph Woolf,
Karl-Michael Schindler,
Konstantin Gribov,
Leonardo Brondani Schenkel,
Martin d'Anjou,
Michael Bailey,
Pete Bentley,
Rob Bavey,
Sam Snyder,
sll552,
teawithbrownsugar,
Thomas Broadley,
urdak,
Varun Sharma,
Xin Wang

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 7.6-rc-4 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.6-rc-4

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 7.6-rc-4.

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.