Gradle 9.8.2 is out 🐘

🔒 Fixes 3 high-rated security vulnerabilities (upgrade recommended)
☕ Java 27 support
🪞 Reuse Maven mirror settings
⚡ Up to 45% faster builds on some Windows machines

docs.gradle.org/9.8.2/release-…

The team that built Gradle's build cache had a cache miss in its own build for weeks.

"Everybody has a cache miss," says Develocity's Stefan Wolf. On CI, every fanned-out job pays for it again.

Start with the tasks you run most: youtube.com/watch?v=xBNBjY…

#Repost #Develocity

Your build may ship a vulnerable Brotli decoder you never asked for.

brotli4j before 1.24.0 bundles it in native JARs. Find it with dependencyInsight or a Build Scan, then pin 1.24.0: blog.gradle.org/lets-talk-abou…

#DoItToday #Gradle

Meta's coding velocity dropped about 15% when engineers started using agents. Then it climbed.

Top DevMate users shipped 6% to 12% more Diffs per month.

Watch the talk, register for DPE Summit Feb. 2-3, $10 off with SOCIAL10: dpe.org/sessions/pavel…

#FromTheStage #DPESummit

📣 Gradle 9.9.0 is out!

docs.gradle.org/9.9.0/release-…
Bug fixes and…

⚡Performance improvements for Kotlin DSL compilation
🎯 Test filtering for non-method JUnit Platform tests
📦 Wrapper settings preserved on upgrade
🗂️ Predefined groups in the Problems API

Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!

Flaky tests waste time on every retry. At Apache: nearly 5 lost CI hours a week.

The build still passes, so they fly under the radar. Develocity 2026.3 ranks them by time burned, so you squash the costliest first. develocity.ai/releases/2026.…

#NumbersFromTheOpen #Develocity

Big build? Every IDE sync waits while Gradle configures your projects one at a time.

New in Gradle 9.7.0: Isolated Projects (incubating) configures them in parallel. Gradle’s own build cut median sync from 84s to 47s.

blog.gradle.org/introducing-is…

#WhatsNew #Gradle

Your agents write code faster, but builds, tests, CI and review decide when it ships.

DPE Summit 2027 is about that delivery side, February 2-3 in San Francisco.

Early bird tickets are $349 until November 13, $10 off with code SOCIAL10: dpe.org/?utm_source=x&…

#DPESummit

A failed build can mean an engineer sifting through gigabytes of logs. Intuit fixed that.

Their system analyzes logs at the moment of failure: 60% faster from broken build to passing build. dpe.org/sessions/katie…

#FromTheStage #DPESummit

Using --parallel? Tasks in the same project still run one at a time.

Tasks share Project state, so Gradle only parallelizes across projects. The Configuration Cache isolates tasks, so they run in parallel.

docs.gradle.org/current/usergu…

#DoItToday #Gradle

Patched your OS after Black October? The JVM running your Gradle build may still trust the forged certificates.

The JDK has its own trust store. Update it, then test against the disclosure site's hosts: blog.gradle.org/lets-talk-abou…

#FromTheBlog #Gradle

Ask an agent to review your build, and it may apply outdated advice everywhere. So what can you do about it?

Use our official `gradle-best-practices` skill, which gives fixes linked to Gradle's docs, so each one can be checked. blog.gradle.org/introducing-gr…

#AskingNow #Gradle

Moving off Ant? A step that used to pass can start failing your build.

Ant's exec ignores non-zero exit codes. Gradle's Exec fails the build by default. blog.gradle.org/side-quest-rem…

#DoItToday #Gradle

A modified gradle-wrapper.jar runs malicious code in your CI. Would your review catch it?

The `setup-gradle` GitHub Action validates the wrapper by default; keep it on, so a fake jar fails before merge. blog.gradle.org/gradle-securit…

#PressXToBuild #Gradle

Your CI has on-call engineers, but flaky tests burn hours with no alert. Why?

Devs just rerun and move on. Your agents? They pay to debug ghosts.

Set a build time SLO, and treat slowdowns like outages before the bill explodes. develocity.ai/blog/your-tool…

#FromTheFounder #Develocity

One recurring failure can break 56 builds a week, each one landing on your CI team.

Each repeat costs a rerun; a plain list won't show which costs most.

Develocity 2026.3 ranks them by builds hit, so the biggest fix comes first. develocity.ai/releases/2026.…

#ShipNote #Develocity

Your build reads other projects' state directly, so it fails with Isolated Projects. The fix?

Share outputs through dependencies instead. Check out how the Gradle team did it: blog.gradle.org/isolated-proje…

#FromTheBlog #Gradle

Gradle 9.9.0 deprecates the built-in Ant integration, and Gradle 10 removes it.

Never call `ant`, use `AntTarget`, or import org.apache.tools.ant? You're done. Otherwise: blog.gradle.org/side-quest-rem…

#WhatsNew #Gradle

📣 Gradle 9.9.0 RC1 is out and ready for testing 🔬
docs.gradle.org/9.9.0-rc-1/rel…
Bug fixes and…
⚡Performance improvements for Kotlin DSL compilation
🎯 Test filtering for non-method JUnit Platform tests
📦 Wrapper settings preserved on upgrade
🗂️ Predefined groups in the Problems API
Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!

Your agent tweaks one file and triggers the full test suite. What’s the daily cost?

A full run can take 15 minutes, and more agents mean more runs.

Test history picks what your change can break. Skip the rest, finish sooner. develocity.ai/product/predic…

#AskingNow #Develocity

You wait for Gradle's configuration phase every build. But why?

New project? A single line, org.gradle.configuration-cache=true, lets unchanged builds skip it.

docs.gradle.org/current/usergu…

#GradleDidThat #Gradle