The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.0 RC1

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle: Abdul Rauf, Andrei Nevedomskii, aSemy, Björn Kautler, bodhili, Cédric Champeau, Christoph Dreis, Clara Guerrero Sánchez, David Marin Vaquero, David Morris, Denis Buzmakov, Dmitry Pogrebnoy, Dzmitry Neviadomski, Eliezer Graber, Eric Pederson, Fedor Ihnatkevich, Gabriel Rodriguez, Herbert von Broeuschmeul, Jeff, Jendrik Johannes, Korov, Marcono1234, Mariell Hoversholm, Matthew Haughton, Matthias Ernst, Michael Ernst, Michael Torres, Pankaj, prasad-333, RicardoJiang, Siddardha Bezawada, Stephen Topley, Victor Maldonado, Vinay Potluri, Xin Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.0-rc-1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.0-rc-1

See the Gradle 7.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 8.0-rc-1.

For Java, Groovy, Kotlin and Android compatibility, see the full compatibility notes.

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines. If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.