Hey folks, Gradle `9.0.0-milestone-9` has been released. It contains Java 17, Groovy 4, Kotlin 2 and 95+% of the deprecation removals. Can you try it out and let us know if you find problems? Note: Release notes are still minimal, but the upgrade guide is comprehensive.

Currently blocked on https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55224/Compatibility-with-Gradle-9.0-release#focus=Comments-27-12068730.0-0, I guess anyone doing Kotlin multiplatform won't be able to update

In the migration guide, targeting Kotlin 1.7 would only support down to 7.6 right? not 6.8? (would require Kotlin 1.4 IIUC)

@Louis Jacomet is the GitHub issue tracker the best place to report issues?

Thanks for the feedback already! Yes, the issue tracker is the best place to report all problems you find.

Why is the version

9.0.0-milestone-9

instead of

9.0-milestone-9

?

I always wondered the opposite. I wish gradle used major.minor.patch for all versions

I may have found something: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/33650. Any ideas?

started playing with this today. seems most of my build is fine as-is after bumping KSP version to match the embedded version in some of my convention plugins. Only blocker I've been able to find so far is the newrelic gradle plugin. Reported / requested G9 support in this issue.

Regarding the version number, we decided to move forward with this issue

I'm so glad you decided to make the versioning more consistent!