Introduction

Welcome to the December Newsletter!

Happy Holidays from The Gradle Build Tool Team! We have 3 new releases for you: Gradle 4.4, Gradle Enterprise 2017.7, and Buildship 2.2. Read on for details about each and community updates.

First up, Gradle 4.4 features:

• Better incremental build and build cache support for C and C++
• Visual Studio 2017 toolchain support
• Kotlin DSL v0.13

Next, Gradle Enterprise 2017.7 features:

• Build cache replication, enabling faster builds with build cache nodes geolocated close to developers
• Keyboard navigation for build scans
• Sharing specific performance information in build scans

One more thing: fully hosted Gradle Enterprise trials! You can now try Gradle Enterprise with no setup. Just fill out this form and we’ll provision and host a Gradle Enterprise trial instance for you on the web.

Finally, Buildship 2.2 features:

• Automatic project synchronization
• Syntax highlighting for Gradle script files
• Runtime classpath separation
• Java 9 compatibility for Buildship plugins

Buildship 2.2 will be a part of the upcoming Eclipse Photon release.

You may see a few improvements in the Gradle docs today, with many more to come. Please fill out this 1-minute survey to help us figure out which improvements matter most to you. In the meantime, enjoy a brand new guide to the Worker API for parallelizing your custom Gradle tasks!

Until next time!

—The Gradle Build Tool Team

From the Community

• eBook: Playing with Gradle — Describes many aspects of managing Gradle for Android applications, like Android tasks, flavor, build types, variants, and so on.
• spring-gradle-plugins/spring-bintray-plugin — A modernized Gradle plugin for Bintray from the Spring team which provides more control over the individual stages of execution and uses the new Worker API.
• http-builder-ng/gradle-http-plugin — Allows you to conveniently make HTTP requests from your Gradle build.
• radarsh/gradle-test-logger-plugin — Plugin for beautiful test execution logs, with standard and mocha themes.
• Remote Debugging en Gradle (Spanish) — One of several helpful Gradle articles in Spanish by Eddú Meléndez.

Have something you’d like to see featured here? Just send us an email with the details to newsletter@gradle.com.

Upcoming Free Training

• Dec 19-22: Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM
• Jan 17-18: Introduction to Gradle