Update Gradle to v6.9.4

This is a patch release for 6.9. We recommend using 6.9.4 instead of 6.9.

It fixes the following issues:

#23680 Dependency graph resolution: Equivalent excludes can cause un-necessary graph mutations [backport 6.x]
#23945 Backport trusting only full GPG keys in dependency verification [Backport 6.9.4]
#23950 Exclude rule merging: missing optimization [backport 6.x]

Read the Release Notes

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9.4 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9.4

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.4.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.9.3`: 6.9.3

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.9, containing backported bugfixes in Gradle 7.x to Gradle 6.x.

It fixes the following issues:

#19523 Fix buffer overflow error in KryoBackedDecoder [Backport 6.x]
#20189 Support constraints without version in GMM [Backport 6.9.x]
#22358 Missing exclude rule merging optimizations

We recommend users upgrade to 6.9.3 instead of 6.9.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9.3 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9.3

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.3.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.9.2`: 6.9.2

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.9, containing backported bugfixes in Gradle 7.2 to Gradle 6.x.

It fixes the following issues:

#18163 Fix excludes for substituted dependencies
#18164 POSIX shell scripts improvements
#18697 Fix corrupted resolution result from replacement / capability conflict
#19328 Mitigations for log4j vulnerability in Gradle builds
#19372 Multiple transformed artifacts selected

We recommend users upgrade to 6.9.2 instead of 6.9.

Given the context of the Log4Shell vulnerability, make sure you take a look at our blog post on this topic.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9.2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9.2

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.2.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.9.1`: 6.9.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.9, containing backported bugfixes in Gradle 7.2 to Gradle 6.x.

It fixes the following issues:

#18089 Deprecate jcenter() repository
#17950 Renaming and recreating the project directory causes Gradle to lose track of changes on Windows
#17949 Gradle's up-to-date checks do not work on Windows FAT drives

We recommend users upgrade to 6.9.1 instead of 6.9.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.9`: 6.9

This is a backport release, Gradle 6.9.

This release features bugfixes and other changes that were backported from Gradle 7.0 to Gradle 6.x.

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle: Ståle Undheim

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.9 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.9

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.9.

For Java, Groovy, Kotlin and Android compatibility, see the full compatibility notes.

Backports

Limited support for Java 16

This release does not support running Gradle with JDK 16, but you can use Java toolchains to request Java 16 and compile your project.

Using dynamic versions in the plugins block

Until now, the plugins { } block only supported fixed versions for community plugins. All version string notations Gradle supports are now accepted, including + or latest.release.

We recommend using the plugins {} block for applying plugins using Gradle 7. The old apply plugin: mechanism will be deprecated in the future.

Note that dynamic versions will introduce non-deterministic behavior to your build process and should be used judiciously. You can use dependency locking to save the set of dependencies resolved when using dynamic versions.

Native support for Apple Silicon

Previous Gradle versions were able to run on new Macs with Apple Silicon processors with some disadvantages:

With a native ARM JDK, Gradle features like the rich console and file system watching would be disabled.
With an Intel JDK, Gradle would run at about half speed through the Rosetta2 compatibility layer.

With this release, every feature is now supported using a native ARM JDK. If you're using a new Mac with Apple Silicon, you should use Gradle with a native ARM JDK for optimal performance.

Other backports

Please refer to the list of fixed issues for all issues backported from Gradle 7.0.

`v6.8.3`: 6.8.3

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.8.

This fixes a critical bug present in Gradle 6.8, 6.8.1 and 6.8.2.

Please don’t use the original 6.8 release or previous patch releases, and instead upgrade to 6.8.3.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.8.3 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.8.3 --gradle-distribution-sha256-sum 7faa7198769f872826c8ef4f1450f839ec27f0b4d5d1e51bade63667cbccd205

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.8.3.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.8.2`: 6.8.2

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.8.

This fixes several bugs in Gradle 6.8.1.

Please don’t use the original 6.8 release or the 6.8.1, and instead upgrade to 6.8.2.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.8.2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.8.2

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.8.2.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.8.1`: 6.8.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.8.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.8.

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.8.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.8.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.8.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.8.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.8.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.8`: 6.8

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.8.

We would like to thank the following community contributors for their contributions to this release of Gradle:

Marcono1234, Björn Sundahl, Roberto Perez Alcolea, Danny Thomas, Jeff, Mattia Tommasone, jdai8, David Burström, Björn Kautler, Stefan Oehme, Thad House, knittl, hywelbennett, and Gregorios Leach.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.8 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.8

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.8.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.7.1`: 6.7.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.7.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.7.

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.7.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.7.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.7.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.7.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.7.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.7`: 6.7

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.7.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

Roberto Perez Alcolea, SheliakLyr, Christian Edward Gruber, René Gröschke, Louis CAD, Campbell Jones, Leonardo Bezerra Silva Júnior, Christoph Dreis, Matthias Robbers, Vladimir Sitnikov, Stefan Oehme, Thad House, Michał Mlak and Jochen Schalanda.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.7 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.7

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.6.1`: 6.6.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.6.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.6.

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.6.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.6.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.6.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.6.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.6.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.6`: 6.6

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.6.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

SheliakLyr, Danny Thomas, Daiki Hirabayashi, Sebastian Schuberth, Frieder Bluemle, Brick Tamland, Stefan Oehme, Yurii Serhiichuk, JunHyung Lim, Igor Dvorzhak, and Leonid Gaiazov.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.6 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.6

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.5.1`: 6.5.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.5.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.5:

Regression: Gradle 6.5 cached builds cause IllegalStateException #13367
Regression: Compile classpath configuration is not deterministic #13555
Regression: Class cast exception when GStrings are used with System.getProperty #13569
And a number of dependency graph resolution errors (#13251, #13316, #13329, #13551)

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.5.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.5.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.5.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.5.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.5.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.5`: 6.5

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.5.

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

SheliakLyr, Daniil Popov, Scott Robinson, Cristian Garcia, fransflippo, Victor Turansky, Gregor Dschung, Roberto Perez Alcolea, kerr, Chris Doré, and Erhard Pointl.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.5 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.5

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.4.1`: 6.4.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.4.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.4:

Regression: Different daemons are used between IDE and CLI builds for the same project #13069
Regression: Main-Class attribute always added to jar manifest when using application plugin #13057

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.4.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.4.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.4.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.4.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.4.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.4`: 6.4

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.4.

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

Roberto Perez Alcolea, SheliakLyr, James Baiera, Patrick Koenig, Matthew Duggan, David Burström, Nelson Osacky, Sebastian Schuberth, Ismael Juma, Steve Vermeulen, Victor Turansky, and Lars Kaulen.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.4 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.4

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.4.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.3`: 6.3

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.3.

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

Kyle Cackett, Roberto Perez Alcolea, Daniel Thomas, jeffalder, Johnny Lim, Bow Archer, and Sam De Block.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.3 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.3

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.3.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.2.2`: 6.2.2

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.2.

This fixes a critical bug in Gradle 6.2:

Multi-project build use the properties of the rootProject for all included builds. #12381

All issues fixed

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.2.2 over the initial release of Gradle 6.2.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.2.2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.2.2

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.2.2.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.2.1`: 6.2.1

This is a patch release for Gradle 6.2.

This fixes several critical bugs in Gradle 6.2:

Project name disambiguation causes project / external dependency conflicts to be missed. #12315
IdeaModelBuilder does not provide groovy-all as compile dep for buildSrc #12274
Gradle crashes if GRADLE_RO_DEP_CACHE is set and it cannot create modules-2 directory within it #12293

All issues fixed

We recommend that you use Gradle 6.2.1 over the initial release of Gradle 6.2.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 6.2.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.2.1

See the Gradle 6.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 6.2.1.

Reporting Problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

`v6.2`: 6.2

The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.2.