January 2026
Table of Contents
Introduction
From the Community #
New posts #
- Going Offline – Achieve reproducible, network-free builds using dependency locking and pre-fetching.
- Kotlin vs R8 – See how aggressive CI cleanup causes unexpected build failures and performance hits.
New videos #
- Gradle 9 + KMP Projects – Overview of the breaking changes in Gradle 9 that impact KMP builds and how to migrate.
New releases #
- Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 – AGP 9.0 is a major release that brings API and behavior changes.
From the Gradle team #
Gradle 9.3.0 release #
In Gradle 9.3.0, HTML test reports get an IDE-style hierarchy for nested and parameterized tests, no more hunting through flat lists! We’ve also pinned stdout/stderr to individual tests and introduced a tabbed interface for aggregate reports.
Alongside this, bash/zsh completion v9.3.0 is out now and will remain synchronized with all future major and minor Gradle releases. Check the full release notes for more!
New course: Authoring Gradle plugins #
We’ve just launched a brand-new self-paced course on our learning platform, DPE University. This course is designed to help you write your first Gradle plugin.
The course is also available on the Gradle YouTube channel.
From the Develocity team #
Upcoming webinar: Scale throughput with Develocity Universal Cache #
Whether it’s the 5x surge in commits driven by GenAI or the increasing complexity of modern applications, CI infrastructure is under unprecedented stress.
Join the Develocity team on January 28 to discover how to make your CI infrastructure keep pace with your commit volume.
New strategic insights for engineering leaders #
AI is rewriting the rules of DevOps, demanding a fundamental rethink of infrastructure and speed. Our two latest deep dives offer a technical masterclass for leaders looking to stabilize their CI/CD environments while meeting the unprecedented demands of AI-scale development.
- Build Artifact CDN: Strategic Infrastructure for AI-Driven DevOps - Learn how Universal Cache acts as a critical “Build Artifact CDN”.
- Pipeline Acceleration: Strategic Imperative in the GenAI Era - Explore how accelerating your build and test cycles directly impacts DORA outcomes.
Upcoming events #
Meet the Gradle team and fellow community members at these upcoming events! We’d love to connect with you and discuss anything related to Gradle Build Tool, Develocity, or Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE).
- January 28, (Webinar) CI without the wait: Scale throughput with Develocity Universal Cache – GenAI code volume is overloading CI. Learn why comprehensive caching is the clear path back to CI efficiency.
- February 19, (Webinar) Automating governance from build to release with Gradle and JFrog – Explore how the emerging practice of Continuous Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) ensures the integrity of the build process in today’s AI-powered development world.
- May 20-22, KotlinConf – The official JetBrains conference devoted to the Kotlin programming language.
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