Gradle 7.6

What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- java.sourceSets.main.output.classesDirs no longer depends on the classes task in Gradle 7.6
- File system events ignored after file watcher error
- Issue with parallel project model building
- frequent StackOverflowError in execution plan
- Gradle-side API to power buildscan.background callbacks in configuration-cache compatible way
- java.lang.ClassCastException: class org.gradle.execution.plan.CompositeNodeGroup cannot be cast to class org.gradle.execution.plan.OrdinalGroup
- Custom ValueSource erroneously tracks files etc used in obtain() when ValueSource parameters are passed in
- Dependency verification - rollback key ring disambiguation
- Gradle 7.6 (UnsupportedOperationException -> PreResolvedResolvableArtifact.getModuleVersion)
- ConcurrentModificationException when excluding multi tasks from command line (-x) in a subproject with configureondemand
- Report @Input annotation misapplied to File/Directory-based properties as warnings
- Investigate regression on changes to artifact resolution
- Configuration cache fails when using includeBuild(".")
- `test-report-aggregation` docs are missing mention of `--continue` flag
- JacocoReportAggregationPlugin doesn't work with JvmTestSuitePlugin
- Gradle build package has snakeyaml dependency for plugins has a CVE with high base score
- 7.5.1 gradle version - java.lang.StackOverflowError at org.gradle.execution.plan.FinalizerGroup$FinalizesMembers.getFilteredSuccessorsFor(FinalizerGroup.java:297)
- 7.5: mustRunAfter(configuration) causes ActionNode cannot be cast to TaskNode
- Add deprecation logging to org.gradle.util.GradleVersion.getNextMajor()
- Deprecate `org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DependencyFactory`
- Gradle distribution jar is not reproducible due to fastutil minification transform
- Report deprecations for deprecated members from the org.gradle.util package
- dependency resolution error should be thrown in the same way regardless of whether config caching is enabled or not
- "withVariantReselection" API broken
- JavaCompile and Test tasks silently ignore explicit executable if it does not exist
- --rerun fails on configuration cache hit
- Can't exclude composite build tasks
- Incremental compilation after failure issues when all classes are not removed
- Could not set system property in the new Checkstyle task and finally failed by NPE when using "ENTITY" feature in configuration files
- Toolchain probing cannot cope with warnings from java
- Include klib extension as KNOWN_ZIP_EXTENSIONS for java normalization
- NullPointerException when using convention mapping and a Property for the same name
- chore: move JUnit and TestNG "dummy" tests to textFixtures
- StackOverflowError in FinalizerGroup.isCanCancel when handling build failure
- Add support for JDK19
- Broken link to processResources on the Java Plugin doc page
- Cannot extract contents of Renjin 3.5 beta76 archive
- "Unable to make progress running work" redux
- Poor performance for fully up-to-date builds on machines with many CPU cores
- :incubationReport txt reporter broken on Kotlin function signatures spanning multiple lines
- Gradle does not recover from dependency resolution failures that happen while writing to the cache
- Introduce Strongly Typed Dependency Block
- Incremental Annotation Processing Issue when recompiling annotated source dependency
- Document behavior around `--` to differentiate between task options and Gradle command-line flags
- StackOverflowError thrown from internal Gradle code.
- Adding files to variants created from ComponentMetadataRules does not work when SNAPSHOT versions are used
- ProjectBuilder tests failing when exercising Kotlin multiplatform plugin
- Deprecate org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.precompiled.accessors.strict=false or unset
- Add docs and snippets for Sharing Configuration Between Test Suites
- can't view KDoc or source code of generated Kotlin dependency extensions in IDE
- Gradle init doesn't escape single quotes
- Upgrade Kotlin to 1.7.0 and maybe try out the K2 compiler?
- Artifact transforms execute before all dependencies are ready
- Add priority order for disambiguation rules to resolvableConfigurations report
- Composite builds fail when reusing configuration cache
- `Manifest.from(Object...)` does not support merging Manifest implementations
- Accept Provider for configuring testing framework versions
- `startScripts` relies on `chmod` being in the PATH.
- Stop computing a logging string that is not used
- Incorrect warning in "Working with files" documentation
- Typo in docs: version should be versionRef.
- Plugin variants are ignored when plugin is added as buildSrc common dependency
- Test task avoidance is not working since Gradle 7.4.x
- Buildscript jars are not keeping their original compression
- `CachingJvmMetadataDetector` caches metadata of invalid installations for the lifetime of the daemon, not build
- Instrument invokedynamic-based Groovy bytecode for configuration cache input detection
- IdentityTransform fails with FileNotFound after updating to 7.5-rc1
- Gradle should log empty javac arguments as quotes pair in debug mode
- Add https://pgp.mit.edu to the list of default key servers.
- Task buildNeeded and buildDependents resolve configuration too early
- Config cache exception on JDK 17: InaccessibleObjectException CopyOnWriteArrayList.writeObject
- @Classpath with @NormalizeLineEndings fails to capture differences in zip entries on JDK8
- Follow up for optimistic locking changes #20687
- Precompiled Kotlin script plugins are broken in explicit API mode
- Fix implicit command-line ordering test in AbstractIdeLifecycleIntegrationTest
- JVM 9+ No Way to Enable Remote Debugging
- Option to rerun only requested tasks
- InitBuild task should convert Maven `compile` scope to `api`, not `implementation`
- Documentation for how to access gradle.properties values in settings.gradle could be enhanced
- error during build: BuildOperationType.java unmappable character (0x9D) for encoding windows-1252
- No way to apply --no-daemon: current process arguments format bug
- Re-use Scala compiler between runs
- Implicit Dependency deprecation warning links to default "Authoring Tasks" in Build Scans
- DirectDependenciesMetadata removals "mutate" previously returned DirectDependencyMetadata instances, removeAll(Collection) is completely broken
- When using the jacoco report aggregation plugin, some classes are not clickable in the report.
- Incremental java compiler does not detect changes to classes used in type parameters in some cases
- `./gradlew projects` fails the second time with configuration cache enabled
- Update vulnerable and old dependencies in gradle distribution (7.4.2)
- "--offline" execution option should be considered as configuration input
- JaCoCo Report Aggregation Plugin uses JARs not class directories in allCodeCoverageReportClassDirectories configuration
- Support Java 19
- Version Catalogs documentation is outdated regards using values defined in Versions scope
- Consider removing the deprecation on catalog names
- publish using maven-publish resulting in shrinked pom.xml version
- Key exporting writes out duplicate keys
- Regression in primary task ordering
- Composite Builds Hierarchical Multirepo Sample - fails when following the instructions
- Gradle 7.4 regression in toolchain support, gradle reports `Invalid encoding name "UTF8"`
- JVM Test Suite Plugin for integrationTest, how to add all test dependencies to integrationTest task in multi module project
- `publish` task from `maven-publish` plugin should work with configuration cache
- Update DefaultJvmTestSuite and BuildInit to use JUnit 5 when applying useKotlinTest
- Improve TestLauncher interface
- VERSION_CATALOGS feature fails if any dir in project path starts with character "u": "illegal unicode escape"
- Upgrade embedded Kotlin to 1.7.10
- Improve outputContains output for integration testing
- Make compile tasks incremental after a failure
- Incremental cache lost after a compilation error when using Micronaut
- Throws TimeoutException during configuration (after 1 minute, Gradle Kotlin IO impl)
- Document where to find Options from tasks
- JavaToolchainService not available on JVM ecosystem projects
- gradleTestKit not available in test suite
- Named argument notation not supported for dependencies in test suite plugin
- Support "Zulu OpenJDK Discovery API" for auto provisioning toolchains
- Remove internal `org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.accessors` feature flag
- [Build Scans] Class-based Settings Plugin breaks build scans when using pluginManagement.includeBuild(...)
- Add a classifier property to the Distribution type
- Update bundled JUnit 5 launcher
- Precompiled Kotlin DSL scripts fix the JVM target to 8
- Allow setting a custom timeout for gradle wrapper download
- `dependencies` task is not compatible with the configuration cache
- Report the number of tasks scheduled for execution to TAPI clients
- Support serializable lambdas for up-to-date checks
- IBM JDK is detected but never selected
- DependencyHandler create method is missing configure with Action overload
- "properties" task is not configuration cache compatible
- Retry connection connection closed during resolution.
- Support auto-download of Java toolchains for more vendors than just AdoptOpenJDK
- Configuration cache - patterns are not serialized for the file tree
- TestLauncher TAPI improvements
- Gradle javaToolChains - output is misleading
- javaToolchains task provides insufficient error information
- gradle init should not create buildSrc but use included build logic builds
- Public API for deciding whether config caching is enabled
- No java incremental compile after compile failure - "unable to get source-classes mapping relationship from last compilation."
- Re-use compiler daemons between builds
- Improve test setup and documentation for Java & JVM projects
- Build script class names depend on the absolute path
-Ability to re-run selected tasks
-Task action implementation is not tracked when added via Task.doLast(String, Action)
-Add ability to specify "name" for task.onlyIf actions (and possibly others like upToDateWhen)
-Remove wrapper zip after unzipping
-Project.afterEvaluate execution order is not specified in documentation
- Regression in 7.6-rc-1 when using invalid Maven repository name
- Add extra entries to JavaVersion for future compatibility
- 7.6 RC1: UnsupportedNotationException for version catalog dependency bundle
- 7.6 RC1/2: UnsupportedNotationException for version catalog bundle dependency constraint
- "Unable to make progress running work" redux2
- "Unable to make progress running work" using 7.6-rc-3
- 7.6 RC3: DependencyAdder.invoke cannot be called with the arguments supplied