Gradle 8.8

What's new in this version:

- New features and usability improvements/l
- Full Java 22 support
- Gradle daemon JVM configurable via toolchain
- Improved IDE performance for large projects
- Build authoring improvements
- Error and warning reporting improvements
- IDE Integration improvements
- Build cache changes
- Configuration cache improvements
- Other improvements

Promoted features:
- File Permissions API is now stable

Fixed:
105 issues have been fixed in Gradle 8.8:
- javaToolchains incorrectly reports 'does not contain a java executable' on Debian and Ubuntu
- Caches cleanup logic uses buggy version of commons-io
- Build cache configuration is ignored when applying a settings plugin that causes accessor generation
- Disable build cache for Groovy DSL script compilation
- Remote caching of buildscripts causes large regression in IDE sync performance
- Investigate behaviour changes with Jacoco and TestKit after Gradle 8.7
- Update Bouncy castle to latest to avoid CVE-2023-33201
- File paths in "precompiled script plugins" section don't match
- Broken link in section https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/writing_build_scripts.html#the_project_object
- Fix doc info
- Fix doc info
- Integrate local build cache cleanup with global Gradle User Home cleanup config
- Artifact transform instrumentation does not handle duplicated entries on the classpath
- Fix doc info
- Fix doc info
- Support storing `Externalizable` objects in the Configuration Cache
- Checkstyle plugin is not compatible with Isolated Projects
- Fix docs info
- Improve problem report aggregation and deduplication
- Creating a Kotlin library with JUnit 5 testing is unsupported with `gradle init`
- Fix punctuations
- Process created by ForkingTestClassProcessor should have native services disabled but not via `-Dorg.gradle.native=false`
- ClassCastException during signature verifaction
- Valid class fails with "java.lang.ClassFormatError" during plugin application
- Finish separating BuildOperationExecutor and BuildOperationRunner
- Fix punctuations
- Fix punctuations
- Gradle does not start on z/OS
- Fix punctuations
- Fix punctuations
- Gradle hangs for Throwables with a self-referencing cause
- Fix punctuations
- Instrumenting and upgrading buildscript classpath fails when repository is changed
- gradle init with maven project results in build-logic included, but no folder generation
- break up integ-test
- Detect Alpine Linux/Musl and disable loading native libraries
- Fix for better understanding
- Fix punctuations
- Fix punctuations
- AggregatingProblemConsumer causes problems to be reported twice
- Unused `caches/transforms-3` directory is not removed by Gradle User Home cache cleanup
- Styling error
- maven snapshot publishing broken metadata
- Fix punctuations
- Fix lines for better understanding
- Fix punctuations
- Gradle Tooling API takes significant time to deserialize task events for extra large projects
- Dark mode: Black arrows & text on a black background in a diagram
- Use artifact transforms for instrumentation of runtimeclasspath of GeneratePrecompiledScriptPluginAccessors task
- Race condition during studio sync / model building resulting in a crash
- Add DependencyConstraint mutation checks
- Improve Problems API Java file location information
- Spec for the infrastructure and API bytecode upgrade infrastructure
- Please clarify when an attribute needs to be added to the attributes schema and when not
- Investigate necessity of Dependencies#module
- Gradle-Junit4 integration doesn't support junit parametrized tests with dot in the parameter name
- Make is clear that adding a dependency to the checkstyle configuration causes the default com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle dependency to back off
- Use artifact transforms for Property upgrades
- enforcedPlatform doesn't work with version catalog entries
- Removing excludes from DirectoryScanner breaks configuration cache
- Configuration cache fails if a task uses a java record as a property type
- Document how bytecode instrumentation and upgrades work
- Option to disable unwanted toolchain warnings
- Large amount of open files after configuration phase of large build (>5000 projects)
- Gradle throws ZipException: "zip file is empty", when downloading from Nexus
- Classifiers & Version Catalogs lead to incomplete/broken Gradle module metadata
- Random failure : Cannot invoke "java.util.HashMap.size()" because "this.map" is null
- Support running on Java 22
- Gradle properties vs project properties vs system properties
- Re-instrument all dependant jars for inherited methods when third party jar changes
- Redundant configuration usage activation deprecation warning with Kotlin feature variant source set
- [configuration cache] kotlin.UninitializedPropertyAccessException: lateinit property reportFile has not been initialized
- Allow convention mapping to work with ConfigurableFileCollection properties
- Coredump in Alpine arm64 platform
- Provide documentation about removing auto-provisioned toolchains
- Document and hint at supported "short" dependency notations when there is no version
- documentation inconsistency: "convention" vs "conventions" plugins, package dir vs package in filename
- DependencySet#isEmpty can return false for sets of size 0
- Introduce a mechanism to apply shared build logic to all projects in a manner compatible with Isolated Projects
- Add `ConfigurableFileCollection#convention` method
- Gradle 7.4+ Android SamplesVariantRule breaking with IDEA Gradle sync (Kotlin multiplatform)
- configuration cache with included build causes --profile unable to create directory
- Provide a way to use plugin definition from version catalog without version
- Poor diagnostics when failing to deserialize object from config cache
- Jacoco plugin need a way to pass a source encoding
- Better error messaging when resolution fails
- Publishing Gradle plugin marker: can't set pom name and description
- Settings plugin extension usable from Groovy but not Kotlin
- Specification for prefix versions broke
- DefaultTask.dependsOn (setDependsOn) has a broken link to accepted parameter types
- Gradle's published Javadocs are in a format that the `javadoc` tool in modern JDKs can't properly link to
- API browser's search results don't have background
- Make Develocity plugin compatible with Isolated Projects
- Docs on IOS Safari visual stutter bug
- 8.8 compatibility issue with JavaVersion, daemon registry and older TAPI clients
- Unexpected internal resolution failure with capability conflict handling
- `gradle init` fails to generate Kotlin application with JUnit Jupiter test framework
- Polish `GradleLifecycle` release notes
- 8.8-rc-1: Daemon Toolchain Support on Windows: WindowsRegistry is not supported on this operating system.
- Gradle 8.8-rc-1 is not compatible with Develocity plugin + Test Distribution
- GradleRunner withEnvironment() behaves differently in 8.8-rc-1
- All IDEA tests lost their display names, DX gone
- Gradle is not honoring status attribute for buildscript classpath dependencies when using plugin markers
- NoSuchMethodError On any SSH Source Dependency
- Test event in Gradle TAPI has incomplete or incorrect data