The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 9.0.0 RC1.
Here are the highlights of this release:
- Configuration Cache is the recommended execution mode
- Gradle now requires JVM 17 or higher to run
- Build scripts use Kotlin 2.1 and Groovy 4.0
- Improved Kotlin DSL build script compilation avoidance
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/releases/tag/v9.0.0-RC1