Gradle

What's new in this version:

New features and usability improvements:
- Support for building projects with Java 22
- Build cache improvements
- Lazy configuration improvements
- Error and warning reporting improvements
- Configuration cache improvements
- Kotlin DSL improvements
- Other improvements
- Documentation improvements

Fixed:
- `buildSrc` JAR is not before its dependencies in the classpath anymore
- Fixing puntuactions
- Fixing puntuactions for better interpration
- Gradle 8.6 contains `ion-java-1.0.2.jar` flagged for CVE-2024-21634
- More muted colours for code blocks in dark mode please
- 8.6: Running debuggable integration tests with configuration cache enabled fails on lambda serialization
- Remove `OperationListener`-based problem transformers
- Ignored keys are not sorted in the verification metadata file
- "Failed to map supported failure" message when using JUnit `Assertions.fail`
- Missing information on how to refer to dependencies in version catalog
- Add release notes about Groovy script compilation using build cache
- Mysterious jdk-toolchains plugin
- Support Dependency Constraints in Strongly Typed Dependency Block
- jgit CVE-2023-4759
- Discuss what should be the java compilation problem severity when -Werror flag is used
- Use Failure types on TAPI problem events
- Use execution engine to perform build script compilation and instrumentation
- Unclear and partly wrong (?) description of task dependencies
- Bump KGP version used in Gradle to at least 1.9.21
- Provide a final name for `ConfigurableValue.withActualValue()`
- Gradle only partly extracts zip files with extra field that is larger than 8024 bytes
- Clarification regarding reserved alias names in version catalogs
- 8.6-rc-1: maven-publish is incompatible with Project Isolation
- Unresolved directive in `userguide.pdf`
- Substitution rules for the build script classpath are not applied after the initial resolution
- Create dedicated `smoke-ide-test` subproject
- Extract AS provisioning logic from `performance-test-plugin`
- Prefer versions use a different sorting algorithm than other version comparisons
- Deprecate legacy/invalid URI parsing in Project#file / Project#uri
- Create an ArchUnit test to find services which don't have `@ServiceScope` applied
- Allow convention mapping to work with multi-valued lazy property types
- Use artifact transforms to instrument TestKit injected classpath
- Maven publishing retries PUT but doesn't retry metadata download
- Make `KotlinDslScriptsModelSpec` a crossVersionTest
- Turn back logging in BuildOperationBasedProblemEmitter
- Cryptic error message when instantiating type that fails to implement interface methods
- Version Catalog: Emit multiple problems for multiple toml errors
- Gradle 8.4: `clean` fails on "java.io.IOException: Unable to delete directory..."
- Easy to fall into trap: Using a Property<ByteArray> in a custom gradle type
- Incubating `InclusiveRepositoryContentDescriptor.includeGroupAndSubgroups` breaks dependency resolution
- Support deleting windows files with read-only attribute
- Java compiler warnings and errors should be exposed via the problems API
- Upgrade Dokka/Dokkatoo to version 1.9, when fixed
- Add @since annotation to Kotlin DSL reference
- Support compiling and testing Java 22
- Gradle not noticing file changes when input files is behind symlink in some cases
- Add support for 'threadpoolfactoryclass' parameter of TestNG
- Undeletable files on Windows when `ArchiveOperations.zipTree` is used inside a TransformAction
- Ad hoc task properties should be implicitly finalized when the configuration cache is used
- Add DeprecationLogger nagging for ClientModule dependencies
- `org.gradle.api.artifacts.VersionCatalog#findLibrary` is inneficient
- Remove Gradle-internal top of the configuration cache problem stacktrace
- Variant selection failure report: Better error message for GRADLE_PLUGIN_API_VERSION_ATTRIBUTE
- Nag for deprecation of registering conventions
- Option to suppress 'dependencies-without-versions' validation error in GenerateModuleMetadata task
- Add deprecation logging to org.gradle.util.CollectionUtils.stringize(collection)
- Incremental Java compiler fails with compile errors due to incorrect classpath, while full compilation works
- Turn off "what went wrong" message
- Show full explanation for duplicate failures with zipTree
- Replace `com.jcraft:jsch` with `com.github.mwiede:jsch` so ed25519 SSH keys can be used
- Append operators for MapProperty, ListProperty, and SetProperty are discarding convention values
- JavaExec task with System.in as the input stream is not compatible with configuration cache
- BuildServiceRegistry#registerIfAbsent method without configuration action
- gcc native tool chain detection does not work with german locale on linux
- Update upgrade guide for plugin convention registration
- Dark mode for documentation