📣 Gradle 9.0.0 RC1 is out and ready for testing! • 🔧 Configuration Cache is now the recommended execution mode • ☕ Gradle requires Java 17+ to run, but you can still build with older Java versions • 💼 Updated to #Kotlin 2.1 and #Groovy 4.0. It means new language features in the DSLs • ⚡ Improved Kotlin DSL build script compilation avoidance • 🧹 Clean up the deprecated APIs, • 🐛 Bug fixes and many minor improvements Full changelog: https://docs.gradle.org/9.0.0-rc-1/release-notes.html Please report any issue on GitHub - https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues !