Gradle Build Tool 8.8. What's New?

In June, we released Gradle Build Tool 8.8. Gradle now supports Java 22. This release introduces a preview feature to configure the Gradle daemon JVM using toolchains and improved IDE performance with large projects. Additionally, this release includes many notable improvements to build authoring, error and warning messages, the build cache, and the configuration cache.

In this video, see the overview of the key features and changes in the release

More info: https://docs.gradle.org/8.8/release-n...

00:00 Opening and the 8.8 Release Summary
02:12 Full Java 22 support
03:08 Gradle daemon JVM configurable via toolchain
04:54 Groovy Build Script build cache support is disabled
06:00 Build Authoring Improvements
06:24 Allow Version Catalog plugin aliases without a version
06:36 Accessors for Settings extensions in Kotlin DSL
07:05 New Gradle lifecycle callbacks
09:24 Ability to set conventions on file collections
09:54 File Permissions API is now stable
10:25 Improved error handling for toolchain resolvers
11:20 Suppressed duplicate error reporting when multiple failures have the same cause
12:30 Improved IDE performance for large projects
13:50 Tests metadata improvements in Tooling API
14:47 Improved control of local build cache cleanup
15:37 Support for Java Record classes and Externalizable instances
15:52 Other improvements
16:08 Filter standard output and error output in XML test reports
16:52 Setting custom POM values in Maven publications for plugins
17:23 Conclusions and References