What's new in Gradle 5?
summary
Gradle 5.x (5.3.1 released, 5.4 imminent) focuses on real speed and reproducibility: roughly 20% less configuration time, incremental Java compilation using binary-compatibility checks, and local plus remote build cache that in examples drops a clean build from ~1m31s to ~5s. Kotlin DSL moves to Kotlin DSL 1.1 (Kotlin bumped to ~1.3.21). New features include nested composite builds for multi-repo monorepo workflows, Java Platform/BOM publishing, configuration-avoidance APIs (register vs create), worker API, task timeouts, CLI option annotations, and repository pinning for specific artifacts.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:10Kotlin DSL improvements
- 7:35Build performance enhancements
- 14:22Composite builds and nested builds
- 18:17Build cache and remote caching
- 21:53Build scans for analysis
- 28:41Dependency management updates
- 31:09Gradle API changes
- 35:45Worker API for parallel tasks
- 39:41Project initialization templates
- 42:15Repository pinning for security
- 43:44Summary and Q&A
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