September 2024

Welcome to the September 2024 Gradle Build Tool newsletter! Welcome to the September 2024 Gradle Build Tool newsletter! In this edition, you will learn about the 8.10.1 patch release, ongoing surveys, and the Hacktoberfest 2024 schedule.

Table of Contents

From the Community

New Blogs and Videos

New Releases

Surveys

From the Gradle Team

Gradle Build Tool 8.10.1 Release

We released Gradle 8.10.1 on September 9. This is a patch release for Gradle 8.10 and fixes the following issues:

At the same time, we discovered more issues and plan to release 8.10.2 in a few days. We recommend users upgrade directly to 8.10.2 instead of 8.10.1. When you read this newsletter, most likely it is already available.

First updates: Gradle 2024 Developer Survey

We continue the Software Software Developer Survey to learn more about the key developer experience challenges and desired changes. Over the past month, we have received more than 400 substantial responses, and we would like to receive even more feedback, especially from software engineers and new users.

Gradle 2024 Developer Survey

For example, here’s a summary of feedback on one question (“How difficult do you typically find it to add new dependencies or upgrade existing dependencies in your project?”), from 250 responders familiar with dependency management. Notably, the response distribution does not change much between the newcomers and advanced user cohorts. We plan to share the initial results and learnings in the coming months.

All software developers are invited to participate in the survey. Those who provide the most substantial feedback will get the special edition Gradle swag!

GSoC 2024 is Over!

This year we participated again in Google Summer of Code and had a few projects. Our highlight is the Gradle Build Server – support for Android projects by Tanish Ranjan. Apart from this main goal, Tanish also added support for Composite Builds and improved Java Home handling in Gradle Build Server. Last but not least, Tanish extended the Gradle plugin for Visual Studio Code and added the initial Android support there!

Android project with Gradle in Visual Studio Code:

GSoC 2024 is Over - Sample IDE

To learn more, see the Project Page and the Android Support and Developer Documentation pages in the Gradle Build Server repo. Tanish also created all this documentation. Thanks a lot to him, and kudos to all the mentors and community members who shared feedback!

Hacktoberfest 2024, Get Ready!

Gradle will participate in Hacktoberfest 2024 this October! Visit our event page for all the details. We will kick off the celebration with a grand opening webinar the week of October 1st, featuring projects suitable for contributors of all experience levels. Some cool swag will also be available!

Learn more and sign up on our event page to receive news about Hacktoberfest, featured projects, and special Gradle team events. Join us this October!

Upcoming Events

Check out Gradle’s upcoming community and hosted events. Say hi to us at our booth and catch our speaking slots! We hope to see you at an event soon.

If you have some news you’d like us to share in the next issue, let us know using the #community-news channel on the Gradle Community Slack or by mentioning @Gradle on Twitter/X.

Until next time!
— The Gradle Team