Gradle Newsletter, November 2017 ======== Welcome to the November Newsletter! This issue covers new Gradle and Gradle Enterprise hosted trials, documentation improvements, and community updates. First up, [Gradle 4.4][1] has just been released! This release features: * Better incremental build and build cache support for C and C++ * Visual Studio 2017 support * Support for version ranges in parent elements in a POM * [Kotlin DSL v0.13][2], Play 2.6 support, and more! Announcing fully hosted Gradle Enterprise trials! You can now try Gradle Enterprise with _no setup_. Just [fill out this form][3] and we'll provision and host a Gradle Enterprise trial instance for you on the web. Finally, you may see a few improvements in the Gradle docs today, with many more to come. Please fill out this [1-minute survey][4] to help us figure out which improvements matter most to you. In the meantime, enjoy a brand new [guide to the Worker API][5] for parallelizing your custom Gradle tasks! Until next time! —The Gradle Team ## From the Community - [spring-gradle-plugins/spring-bintray-plugin][6] — A modernized Gradle plugin for Bintray from the Spring team which provides more control over the individual stages of execution. - [http-builder-ng/gradle-http-plugin][7] — Allows you to make HTTP requests from your Gradle build. - [radarsh/gradle-test-logger-plugin][8] — Plugin for beautiful test execution logs, with standard and mocha themes. - [Remote Debugging en Gradle (Spanish)][9] — One of several helpful Gradle articles in Spanish by Eddú Meléndez. _Have something you'd like to see featured here? Just send us an email with the details to [newsletter@gradle.com][10]._ ## Upcoming Free Training - Dec 6: [Maximizing Developer Productivity with Gradle Enterprise][11] - Dec 19-22: [Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM][12] - Jan 17-18: [Introduction to Gradle][13] -- Gradle Inc. 325 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 https://gradle.org %%unsubscribe%% (Unsubscribe from future Gradle emails) [1]: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/releases/tag/v4.4.0 [2]: https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/releases/tag/v0.13.1 [3]: https://gradle.com/enterprise/trial/hosted [4]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePDt4qZyl2YeYH20yCnE6HTDe3YyxaGpyldcTy4pBPQlf_Ng/viewform [5]: https://guides.gradle.org/using-the-worker-api/ [6]: https://github.com/spring-gradle-plugins/spring-bintray-plugin [7]: https://http-builder-ng.github.io/gradle-http-plugin/ [8]: https://github.com/radarsh/gradle-test-logger-plugin/ [9]: http://blog.eddumelendez.me/2017/03/remote-debugging-gradle/ [10]: mailto:newsletter@gradle.com [11]: https://gradle.org/training/developer-productivity-with-gradle-enterprise/register-2017-12-06/ "Maximizing Developer Productivity with Gradle Enterprise" [12]: https://gradle.org/training/advanced-gradle-jvm/register-2017-12-19/ "Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM" [13]: https://gradle.org/training/intro-to-gradle/register-2018-01-17/ "Introduction to Gradle"