January 2023

Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to the January 2023 Gradle Build Tool newsletter. We are so excited to welcome you to the New Year.

This edition covers a lot of news from the community, and releases of Kotlin 1.8 and Android Studio Electric Eel. Plus, Square’s celebrating the release of Android Studio Electric Eel, which showed a 60% average gain in sync performance.

From the Community

Blog posts

Videos

From Gradle Team

Blog

Podcast

Video

  • Gradle Enterprise 2022.4 Release Overview — Gradle Enterprise 2022.4 adds several new features and enhancements to make life easier for developers and productivity engineers. In addition to an expanded Enterprise API, an even more accurate machine learning model for Predictive Test Selection, and better debugging information, we’ve also released improved plugins for Jenkins and the Gradle Build Tool.

Mentorship

  • Mentee Application — The Gradle Build Tool Mentorship applications are open and accepting applications for the second cohort. Read more about what this entails in this blog post or see who was accepted into cohort one last year.

Releases

Kotlin 1.8.0

Kotlin 1.8.0 contains some great features like exposing the Kotlin compiler options as Gradle lazy property and the ability to disable the Kotlin daemon fallback strategy.

Android Studio Electric Eel

In Android Studio Electric Eel (2022.1.1) parts of Gradle sync now run in parallel by default. This can result in significant speedups, especially for very large projects. Many teams like Square are Celebrating the Release of Android Studio Electric Eel along with configuration cache can save massive amounts of time.

Careers

If you share our passion for developer productivity and tooling, consider joining our globally distributed team and check out our job openings at gradle.com/careers. We are looking for software engineers, solutions engineers, an application security engineer, and other roles, including a new position for a software engineer who wants to become a technical writer.

Upcoming Events

See the Gradle Training webpage for an up-to-date list of all upcoming educational and training events. Here is a highlight of some of the next ones:


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Until next time!

The Gradle Build Tool Team

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Until next time!
— The Gradle Team