✨ What's new in Gradle 8? Hint: performance ⚡ and usability 🔧.

👀 Read the highlights of everything since Gradle 7.0:

#Gradle Build Tool has a fantastic plugin ecosystem, but finding a #plugin that works well can be a challenge. Join our talk with Gradle’s Gary Hale for plugin authors to learn how to write plugins that consumers will love. We'll cover #pluginarchitecture, #taskconfiguration avoidance, configuration #cache compatibility, #buildcache planning and #testing, and backwards compatibility. Keep your plugin healthy and well-behaved as Gradle evolves - https://devnexus.com/presentations/writing-gradle-plugins-that-users-will-love

Sasquatch, Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster are often thought of as mythical creatures that can't possibly exist, but the 10x Organization is very real. If you want to learn more about how to breed 10x developers with #developer productivity engineering, join #Gradle's Field #CTO Justin Reock on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 15:00 to 15:40 at the Javaland Rotunde. Find more information here - https://en.shop.doag.org/events/javaland/2023/agenda/#eventDay.all#textSearch.justin

📣 Gradle 8.1 RC1 is out and ready for testing 🔬

https://gradl.es/3Twe1Gf

Bug fixes and...
⚡ Stable configuration cache
🧰 Experimental Kotlin DSL assignment syntax
☕ Building with Java 20

Report 🐛 on GitHub.

🔥 This Wednesday 🔥

🤖 DevProdEng Showdown S3E1: #CI at Scale

👉 Mar-22 at 10 a.m. PT with Gradle’s Dan Speers, Netflix’s Rahul Somasunderam, Slack’s Valera Zakharov, and Uber’s Yohan Hartanto.

Listen to experts using #CI at massive scale–across large development teams, platforms, and projects. Hear best practices, lessons learned, challenges, impactful wins, KPIs/OKRs and deliverables from their past experiences.

➡️ Register now - https://gradle.com/training/devprodeng-showdown-s3e1-ci-at-scale/?time=1679443200?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=showdown

🍦 Join #Gradle in St. Louis with @looselytyped on Thursday March 30th at 1pm CT for the FREE…

👐 Hands-on Intro to Developer Productivity Engineering workshop for #Gradle #Maven #Android Builds

Leave the workshop with 5-10X faster builds, register here - https://nofluffjuststuff.com/stlouis/gradle/workshop_signup

🔧 Introducing “DevProdEng Showdown!” Contestant: Yohan Hartanto of #Uber

🔥 S3E1: #CI at Scale on March 22 at 10 a.m. PT

➡️ Register now - https://gradle.com/training/devprodeng-showdown-s3e1-ci-at-scale/?time=1679443200?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=showdown

📣 Join #Gradle's Vincent Mayers and #XDEV Software’s Richard Fritchner at 2pm on March 21 in the Phantasialand Brühl #Javaland Community Room for an exciting session on Developer Productivity Engineering (#DPE) 🚀

🧠 Discover how to reduce interruptions and frustrations during long build cycles to increase developer happiness and save costs

Check out their session here - https://en.shop.doag.org/events/javaland/2023/agenda/#eventDay.all#textSearch.dpe

Custom #Logging Schemas. You can replace much of #Gradle’s logging UI with your own. You might do this, for example, if you want to customize the UI in some way, e.g. to log more or less information, or to change the formatting.

⛳ Austin, TX folks: Join #Gradle for Builds & Birdies on March 28th at 4pm at Topgolf (near the Domain). There will be snacks, drinks and of course some golf! Register today! https://gradlecommunitymeetupaustin.splashthat.com

🔧 Introducing DevProdEng Showdown! Contestant: Rahul Somasunderam of #Netflix

🔥 S3E1: #CI at Scale on March 22 at 10 a.m. PT

➡️ Register now - https://gradle.com/training/devprodeng-showdown-s3e1-ci-at-scale/?time=1679443200?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=showdown

🤖 Tips and Tricks from the #Gradle Community

Custom Gradle #Plugin for Unified Static Code Analysis — describes an uncomplicated approach to automating code style rules checking in different #repositories - https://dev.to/kirekov/custom-gradle-plugin-for-unified-static-code-analysis-4bj0

#GradleTips

📣 Attending #VoxxedDays 2023? Come and meet the #Gradle team and watch demos throughout the day. Speak to our experts, ask questions, and grab a T-shirt! See you there! 😎 https://voxxeddays.com/zurich/schedule/talk/?id=7501

Learn about the enhancements #AndroidX has made over the years to their increasingly complex #Gradle build configuration with #Google’s Aurimas Liutikas. AndroidX is a large collection of Google #OSS #Kotlin and #Java libraries built to make Android app developers’ lives easier. This talk will take you on a journey exploring how Gradle Build has evolved and grown from 12 to over 650 projects. Learn how Gradle Build Tool kept #CI times and quality at bay - https://dpesummit.com/chasing-the-speed-of-gradle-builds

📣 Attending #VoxxedDays Zurich? Don't miss out on Etienne Studer's talk! The SVP of Engineering at #Gradle will present "Avoiding work is work - but it pays off!" in room 3 at 12:25 on March 16th. See you there! https://voxxeddays.com/zurich/schedule/talk/?id=7501

📰 NEWS: #Triplequote has joined @Gradle to further accelerate compilation and build speeds for #Scala teams. Triplequote co-founder Iulian Dragos reflects on the acquisition in this blog post:

Built-in #Scala Support

The Scala #plugin extends the #Java plugin to add support for Scala projects. It can deal with Scala code, mixed Scala and Java code, and even pure Java code.

🔧 Introducing DevProdEng Showdown! Contestant: Valera Zakharov of #Slack

🔥 S3E1: #CI at Scale on March 22 at 10 a.m. PT

➡️ Register now - https://gradle.com/training/devprodeng-showdown-s3e1-ci-at-scale/?time=1679443200?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=showdown

🤖 Tips and Tricks from the #Gradle Community

Gradle’s Flexibility in Action — shows how one can leverage Gradle’s flexibility to support what seemed to be a complicated use case - https://melix.github.io/blog/2023/gradle-synthetic-projects.html

#GradleTips

🔧 Introducing DevProdEng Showdown! Contestant: Dan Speers of #Gradle

🔥 S3E1: #CI at Scale on March 22 at 10 a.m. PT

➡️ Register now - https://gradle.com/training/devprodeng-showdown-s3e1-ci-at-scale/?time=1679443200?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=showdown