CFP - February 2025 Gradle Newsletter

[oleg-nenashev]

We are assembling the next newsletter edition. As always, we want to include major updates from the community, including recent updates in Gradle Build Tool and plugins, new blogs and articles, and upcoming events. Any other big Gradle-related updates are welcome, too! See the newsletter archive for examples

If you want to suggest something, comment on this issue!

References:

• Gradle Build Tool Newsletter archive
• Contributing to the newsletter

P.S.: Bonus points for announcing the updates in #community-newson Slack and on Gradle Forums!

[britter]

Blog post about libudev warnings when running Gradle on NixOS and how to fix them: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/01/16/nixos-gradle-libudev/

[oleg-nenashev]

Thank hyou @britter ! I added it to the January edition. We still have 1-2 days there

[britter]

This week I blogged about Version Catalogs and Dependency Platforms: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/01/24/version-catalogs-vs-platforms/

[oleg-nenashev]

Donn Felker has started publishing a new tutorial on Android development, with many videos addressing Gradle: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVUm4IewkTXolU0bpRcpOo2RPBBuLGk-d . I watched several ones, and they are a good Show&Tell with most of the time within IDE.

[britter]

Wrote about dependency verification this week: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/02/10/gradle-dependency-verification/ The blog post describes the process we followed at GradleX in order to enable dependency verification and configure it in a way that makes dependency updates straight forward.

[oleg-nenashev]

GSoC Updates

Last year, mentors from The Kotlin Foundation supported four Kotlin ecosystem projects in Google Summer of Code ☀️
We are excited to share the results of GSoC 2024 - check out the projects that successfully reached production and learn about the next GSoC:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/01/google-summer-of-code-with-kotlin-results/

For 2025, the project ideas are live: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2025.html#project-ideas and https://community.gradle.org/events/gsoc/#project-ideas

[autonomousapps]

https://dev.to/autonomousapps/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-when-pom-files-lie-3lm5

[martinbonnin]

https://www.liutikas.net/2025/02/06/Stifle-Hungry-Tasks.html

[liutikas]

https://www.liutikas.net/2025/02/07/Tragedy-Of-Build-Classpath.html

[oleg-nenashev]

@liutikas will soon have a "Daily Gradle" blog 🎉

[oleg-nenashev]

Some other vids that I firstly missed:

• Custom Gradle Plugins: Clean Up Your Build Scripts!
• Gradle Build Refactoring - Extract Subproject
• Java App CI/CD Observability by me

[alpeshvas]

This was missed due to last minute fixes

#178 (comment)

[alpeshvas]

This was missed due to last minute fixes

#178 (comment)

This is the blog on 5x improvements in build time for our largest backend codebase at Headout using gradle remote build caching strategies combined with GitHub tooling - https://www.headout.studio/build-faster-ship-sooner-our-journey-from-15-to-3-minutes/