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Hi there. Building projects with Java 8 is still supported by the latest Gradle versions. Can you share more detail about your upgrade challenges?

Also check out these docs: <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/upgrading_version_5.html>

Also this is good:

<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/compatibility.html>

Kyle thanks for response. We had tried once and many failures though `./gradlew help --scan` does not list any deprecation.
We can give it another try but are we sure if we upgrade to 6, it would solve the incremental compilation issues as mentioned above?

The incremental compilation with changes to primitive constants has been fixed in 7.1. So you would need to upgrade to 7.x if you want that feature.

You can also consider using JVM toolchains to decouple the version used to run Gradle from the version used to build your code: <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/toolchains.html>