Gradle Newsletter, December 2017 ======== Welcome to the December Newsletter! Happy Holidays from the Gradle Team! We have 3 new releases for you: [Gradle 4.4][1], [Gradle Enterprise 2017.7][2], and [Buildship 2.2][3]. Read on for details about each and community updates. First up, [Gradle 4.4][1] features: * Better incremental build and build cache support for C and C++ * Visual Studio 2017 toolchain support * [Kotlin DSL v0.13][4] Next, [Gradle Enterprise 2017.7][2] features: * Build cache replication, enabling faster builds with build cache nodes geolocated close to developers * Keyboard navigation for build scans * Sharing specific performance information in build scans _One more thing:_ fully hosted Gradle Enterprise trials! You can now try Gradle Enterprise with _no setup_. Just [fill out this form][5] and we'll provision and host a Gradle Enterprise trial instance for you on the web. Finally, [Buildship 2.2][3] features: * Automatic project synchronization * Syntax highlighting for Gradle script files * Runtime classpath separation * Java 9 compatibility for Buildship plugins Buildship 2.2 will be a part of the upcoming Eclipse Photon release. You may see a few improvements in the Gradle docs today, with many more to come. Please fill out this [1-minute survey][6] to help us figure out which improvements matter most to you. In the meantime, enjoy a brand new [guide to the Worker API][7] for parallelizing your custom Gradle tasks! Until next time! —The Gradle Team ## From the Community - [eBook: Playing with Gradle][8] — Describes many aspects of managing Gradle for Android applications, like Android tasks, flavor, build types, variants, and so on. - [spring-gradle-plugins/spring-bintray-plugin][9] — A modernized Gradle plugin for Bintray from the Spring team which provides more control over the individual stages of execution and uses the new Worker API. - [http-builder-ng/gradle-http-plugin][10] — Allows you to _conveniently_ make HTTP requests from your Gradle build. - [radarsh/gradle-test-logger-plugin][11] — Plugin for beautiful test execution logs, with standard and mocha themes. - [Remote Debugging en Gradle (Spanish)][12] — 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][13]._ ## Upcoming Free Training - Dec 19-22: [Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM][14] - Jan 17-18: [Introduction to Gradle][15] -- Gradle Inc. 325 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 https://gradle.org %%unsubscribe%% (Unsubscribe from future Gradle emails) [1]: https://docs.gradle.org/4.4/release-notes.html [2]: https://gradle.com/enterprise/releases/2017.7 [3]: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.buildship/releases/2.2.0 [4]: https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/releases/tag/v0.13.1 [5]: https://gradle.com/enterprise/trial/hosted [6]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePDt4qZyl2YeYH20yCnE6HTDe3YyxaGpyldcTy4pBPQlf_Ng/viewform [7]: https://guides.gradle.org/using-the-worker-api/ [8]: https://android2ee.com/Tutoriaux/Playing-with-Gradle.html [9]: https://github.com/spring-gradle-plugins/spring-bintray-plugin [10]: https://http-builder-ng.github.io/gradle-http-plugin/ [11]: https://github.com/radarsh/gradle-test-logger-plugin/ [12]: http://blog.eddumelendez.me/2017/03/remote-debugging-gradle/ [13]: mailto:newsletter@gradle.com [14]: https://gradle.org/training/advanced-gradle-jvm/register-2017-12-19/ "Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM" [15]: https://gradle.org/training/intro-to-gradle/register-2018-01-17/ "Introduction to Gradle"