Gradle 8.6

What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- Broken Link to Gradle Module Metadata Specification
- The --java-version option doesn't prevent "gradle init" from entering interactive mode, as expected
- Windows virtual memory monitoring captures the wrong value for free memory
- Labels for task validation problems API reports are incomplete
- Using transforms for classpath instrumentation makes the performance->configuration page fail in build scans with configure on demand
- Rethink `ProblemReporter#report` interfaces
- Navigating to Gradle sources in IDE broken since 8.5
- Fix worker API compatibility issue - send an exception from a worker in an integration test
- Fix serialization of `Class` for reused projects
- Expose common categories via Problems API
- Make Problems API more permissive
- Document Problems API in user guide
- Quick Doc link fixes in Running and Authoring Gradle Builds
- gradle init produces settings.gradle file with wrong multi-project build documentation link
- Link to gradle module metadata specification is broken on https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_gradle_module_metadata.html
- DefaultProblem should not hold a reference to OperationIdentifier
- WorkerProblemSerializer should use Encoder/Decoder for serialisation
- Fix message ordering when reporting problems from a worker
- JavaDoc of `BuildFeature` claims you can inject it but not how
- Remove unused variables of Problems interface
- Clean up Problems API inconsistencies
- Implement problem aggregation
- Fix typo in JavaDoc
- Delete ProblemDescriptor.getJson
- Make it easier for third party plugins to define problem documentation URLs
- Define separate API to report third-party plugin problems
- Outdated JavaDoc on `ProblemBuilderSpec`
- Allow users to provide the encryption key used by the Gradle Configuration Cache
- Workers should be able to use the Problems API
- Investigate Problem deduplication and write a spec
- Adding a new public type and a method fails binary compatibility check
- Update documentation around Verification failures
- Benchmark concurrent codec solutions
- Additional data attached to Problems should be able to handle new data types
- Problems API should be usable from workers
- Refine ProblemEvent type in Tooling API
- "JaCoCo Report Aggregation Plugin" fails when configuration cache is enabled (gradle plugin project)
- Build tree path is not available for all models exposing the Task type
- Allow problem transformers to edit problems
- Deadlock in dependency resolution
- Deadlock in parallel model building with AGP
- Introduce `NamedDomainObjectCollection.named(Spec<String>)`
- Poor directory snapshotting performance for source directory sets with many entries
- Use Immutable artifact transforms for non-incremental project transforms
- ivy repository URL String parsing broken with 8.3
- Disable project implicit configuration on cross-project access
- 8.4 – Test task that filters tests by JUnit 5 tag annotation emits deprecation
- Make IDEA model builder Isolated Projects compatible
- Gradle batch file does not print JAVA_HOME errors on standard error
- Investigate PersistentCache logic and what we can reuse for immutable workspace and sandboxing
- Separate cc instrumentation and property upgrades when instrumenting bytecode
- Capabilities information differs in dependency graph vs artifact collection
- Bad error message when using the wrong Java version
- `--write-verification-metadata --dry-run` missing dependencies in android project with buildSrc
- Gradle init should not provide the package default based on the project name
- --write-verification-metadata failure with includedBuild
- Support providers to define capabilities of consumable configurations
- Instrument plugins with artifact transform
- Tests for `kotlin-dsl-plugin` and `kotlin-dsl-integ-tests` with embedded runner fails when upgrading AbstractCompile properties
- ValueSource without result is always recognized as changed by configuration cache
- Measure the impact of Project Isolation on a large purely Java project
- TomlCatalogFileParser should use BufferedInputStream
- Gradle build fails with configuration cache enabled with warnings
- Non-interactive mode for `gradle init`
- --exclude-task fails on complex included build structure with settings plugin starting with 7.6
- Prevent or help to diagnose accidental recursion to itself in a property
- Cancelling `gradle init` leaves leftovers lying around
- Error:Cannot find snapshot for id: -4123461672748341163
- Artifact transform instrumentation ignores directories
- Gradle 8.6-rc-1 can't build Spring Boot 2.x based projects
- Final javadoc review for Problems API
- Review and extend test coverage for Problems API
- Contribute Problems API project to samples index
- Document Problems API in release notes
- Performance Tests lead to 404
- Implement public Problems API
- Remove update() from public API in 8.6
- Change in tar permission handling with 8.6-rc-1 and 8.6-rc-2
- Docs Dark theme does not work as expected on Windows/Chrome
- Android Studio project import memory regression in 8.6-rc1
- Cannot mutate ... after it has been finalized in testsuite with kotlin plugin in Gradle 8.6-rc
- When viewing docs in dark-mode, 'Tips' boxes have a light-mode background
- The AsciiDoc preprocessor directives is unresolved in user guide (pdf)
- Temporary workspace cannot be moved to immutable location when files left open on Windows
- Low contrast on links with code-styling in dark mode
- Broken Groovy compilation result in NotSerializableException in IDE