January 2017

Welcome to the January newsletter! The Gradle Build Tool Team has been working hard on the upcoming Gradle 3.4 release, which will contain a number of new features laser-focused on build performance. Each will be discussed in-depth with the release, but to give you a general idea of what’s coming, the changes fall into three major categories:

  1. Compile avoidance, i.e. determining what not to build;
  2. Incremental compilation improvements—in both robustness and performance;
  3. A new Java Library Plugin that lets you separate dependencies into those needed for applications and those needed for libraries.

All will be revealed when Gradle 3.4 is released in early February. Stay tuned!

In parallel, the team has been working on our ongoing goal of growing the community of Gradle experts. To accomplish that, we recently offered two free online Introduction to Gradle training courses, and more are on the way. This month we’re taking the next step by offering our Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM course online for just $100 (previously $1100–1400). This is an extraordinary value, so please register as soon as you can. We expect the course to fill quickly.

If you prefer face-to-face training, we are also offering our Gradle In-Depth course in conjunction with this year’s Gradle Summit conference. This course combines elements from both the Introduction to Gradle and Advanced Gradle Fundamentals courses in a highly interactive, hands-on atmosphere.

And speaking of this year’s Gradle Summit conference, our flagship event is returning to Palo Alto this June, and we’re working hard to make it a memorable one. We’ll have much more to share as the event approaches, but in the meantime, both registration and our call for speakers are now open! Come to learn and share your experiences with the Gradle community.

As a final note, we’re excited about the growth in community involvement that’s followed our recent move to GitHub Issues. For one example, JaCoCo code coverage enforcement was added to Gradle 3.4 largely as a response to users voting for it. Please keep that feedback coming!

The Gradle Build Tool Team

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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

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