June 2025

Welcome to the June 2025 Gradle Build Tool newsletter! This edition covers the Gradle 9 release candidate, new plugins, key ecosystem updates, and some great community content. Plus, don’t miss the upcoming Gradle Build Cache webinar and key events like DPE Summit!

From The Community

New Posts

New Videos

New Releases

From The Gradle Team

Gradle Hits An All-Time Record

Gradle 50M Downloads

🎉 Gradle Build Tool now exceeds 50 million monthly downloads!

This includes downloads via the Gradle Wrapper, Tooling API, and direct links from services.gradle.org. The actual number is even higher when factoring in mirrors, Docker images, and package managers.

A huge thank you to the entire community of developers, contributors, and build engineers who continue to choose and improve Gradle. Surpassing 50 million monthly downloads is a reflection of your trust and the project’s growing impact. Your feedback and contributions shape the future of build automation.

Help others discover Gradle by starring our GitHub repository.

Gradle 9 Release Candidate

Gradle 9.0.0 RC1

The first release candidate is ready, and we’d love your feedback.

Highlights include:

The GA release is expected next month. In the meantime, test the RC, then share feedback on the issue tracker or in the Gradle Community Slack.

Gradle Build Cache Webinar

Gradle Build Cache Webinar

Join us for our upcoming webinar on Gradle Build Cache! Build caching and related performance gains have contributed to making Gradle Build Tool one of the most popular tools in the JVM ecosystem, and Gradle’s caching capabilities will continue to evolve this year.

Laura Kassovic and Oleg Nenashev—that’s us, the authors of this newsletter—are hosting a webinar on July 24 to show how Gradle’s build cache can help you cut down your build times by reusing task outputs from previous runs. We’ll review real-world examples from open source projects that are using a free Gradle-sponsored Develocity instance to leverage local and distributed caching. We’ll also share pointers for developers looking to level up their Gradle Build Tool skills.

Sign up here. We hope to see you there!

Gradle 7 And 8 Patch Releases

Gradle Patch Releases

Both Gradle 8.14.2 and 7.6.5 address improvements in dynamic version resolution, ensuring more accurate and efficient dependency management. Gradle 7.6.5 also backports key dependency updates for better compatibility and performance.

Check out the full details in the 8.14.2 and 7.6.5 release notes.

Maven Central Is Changing

Maven Central Sunset

Heads up: On June 30, 2025, publishing to Maven Central via the legacy OSSRH backend will break. Gradle users must migrate to updated publishing tools that support the new API.

See the Gradle Cookbook to learn more.

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).

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The Call for Proposals for the July edition is now open and we’d love your contributions!

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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