Gradle 8.12

What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- Java compilation failures don't show up correctly in build scans
- Duplicate documentation
- Invalid class generated when extracting ABI from enum type
- Make use of the problem reports in build failure reporting
- Add task paths to problem reports
- Invalid class generated when extracting ABI from non-static inner-class
- Lost important documentation parts in 8.11
- Deprecate "space-assignment" syntax in Groovy
- Task up-to-date reason message outputs `and more...` multiple times
- Code snippet "Apply the script plugin" missing
- Pre-compiled script plugin contains wrong example code
- "Writing Build Scripts": provider is not explained
- Missing snippet Javadoc task
- Code sample "Apply plugins to the build" is wrong
- Builds failing via Problems.throwing() should render problems in the failure output
- NPE when "basicProblemDetails" is null
- Groovy interceptor for boolean `isX()` getter is not generated for Property upgrades
- Broken link in samples page note
- Swift 6 support is missing
- New newline in unixStartScript.txt breaks existing functionality
- Make additionalLinkFiles in resource compiler lazy again
- IDEA configuration should be consistent with the build requirements
- Configuration cache is not invalidated when creating a buildSrc directory
- `ArchiveOperations` documentation is incorrect
- Test failures generated from custom test tasks are reported on the console
- Support test event generation from non-Test tasks
- Avoid using deprecated internal API in our build logic
- The @RELEASE_NAME@ placeholder in the verification-keyring.keys file is not substituted with the correct BCPG version anymore
- Update README for better readability
- Adding additional hint for #26672
- ExecOperations documented as inside internal package
- `UnitTestPreconditions.KotlinOnlySupportsJdk21Earlier` needs to be more dynamic and discoverable when updating the Kotlin version
- Minor Things Resolving capability conflicts
- Configuration cache fails to handle `ValueSource` with undeclared input parameters
- CC-compatible code seems to be not compatible when running with STABLE_CONFIGURATION_CACHE
- Forbid cycles in included plugin builds definition in IP mode
- Scala Zinc Incremental compiler regression as of version 1.10.1
- Support file-system watching on Alpine/musl
- Deprecate calling Task.getProject at execution time
- Removing @Incubating from org.gradle.api.services.ServiceReference
- Build logic for Android Studio provisioning should support DMG packaging for macOS
- Dogfood daemon toolchains in gradle/gradle
- Environment variable injected after daemon creation are not visible anymore since 8.8
- Linking resources on Windows does not work with CC
- Implement lenient finalization for migrated properties
- Support SyncSpec in Action in FileSystemOperations.sync()
- StackOverflowError when adding Provider<*> entries to ListProperty
- Implement problem aggregation in Gradle core
- AggregatingProblemConsumer should only do summarization
- Sanitise Tooling API classes representing problem reports
- The Problems API should add contextual locations to a problem.
- Rework ResolutionFailureHandler to support CapabilitySelectors natively
- Wrong link in 'Implementing tasks with dependency resolution result inputs Sample'
- Deprecate org.gradle.api.tasks.diagnostics.DependencyInsightReportTask.getDependencySpec()
- "Invalid Java installation found" while auto-provisioning a JDK
- Deadlock in parallel tasks configuration in IP mode
- Groovy DSL `=` for ConfigurableFileCollection changes state of Configuration
- Allow plugins to register new types of projects to init
- DependencyConstraintHandler is missing addProvider methods
- `@OptionValues` annotation doesn't support lazy values as a return type
- Support file system watching on CentOS Stream 8 and 9
- Decide what to do for plugins modifying upgraded properties at execution time
- Deprecate ReportingExtension.baseDir
- Investigate `Detected overflow` in native logger
- Gradle Koans: sample challenges for getting familiar with Gradle
- Missing reference in Gradle User Manual Version 6.8.3
- Add a (working) "edit on GitHub page" link on all documentation pages
- Allow to change Transform logs log level
- Add opengraph/SEO metadata to Release Note pages
- Document problem summary html in user guide
- Version ranges use sometimes wrong brackets
- Add doc on how to disable the report
- Add "Gradle build" term documentation to Glossary/Basics
- Prepare problem summary TAPI for future extension
- The current gradle docu is using the term 'cross-(project)-configuration' like anyone reading the doc could have any clue what that could possible mean
- Internal class `TestReporter` and method `AbstractTestTask#setTestReporter(TestReporter)` removed in 8.12
- Revert changes to HttpBuildCache for external plugins compatibility
- Update Task.getProject deprecation message to postpone target release
- gradle-8.12-20241210012659+0000: model and components tasks introduce deprecation warnings