The road to Gradle 9
summary
Gradle 9 raises the daemon Java minimum to 17, moves Kotlin to 2.0 and Groovy to 4, and promises large-scale migration of core plugin properties to a new provider API with runtime adapters so many existing plugins keep working. Ongoing work includes making configuration cache the preferred fast mode (already shaving inner-loop times dramatically), an isolated projects alpha for parallel project configuration, and continued releases in the 8.x train; demos show real builds and caches cutting multi-hour test cycles down to minutes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:55Gradle 9 release strategy
- 15:14Build comprehensibility
- 1:09:41Build scalability
- 1:55:25Gradle 9 features
- 2:36:20Future of Gradle
- 2:43:11Q&A
