Gradle v7.4 releases: automation building tools
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, it offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites. It has been designed to support build automation across multiple languages and platforms including Java, Scala, Android, C/C++, and Groovy, and is closely integrated with development tools and continuous integration servers including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Jenkins.
- Highly customizable — Gradle is modeled in a way that customizable and extensible in the most fundamental ways.
- Fast — Gradle completes tasks quickly by reusing outputs from previous executions, processing only inputs that changed, and executing tasks in parallel.
- Powerful — Gradle is the official build tool for Android, and comes with support for many popular languages and technologies.
Changelog v7.4
This release makes it easier to create a single test report or JaCoCo code coverage report across several projects. This release also includes several usability improvements, such as marking additional test source directories as tests in IDEA and better support for plugin version declarations in subprojects.
Java toolchain support has been updated to reflect the migration of AdoptOpenJDK to Adoptium.
There are changes to make adopting the experimental configuration cache easier, along with several bug fixes and other changes.
The build services and version catalogs features have been promoted to stable.
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