Recent Releases

9.4.010 Mar 2026 08:25 minor feature: We are excited to announce Gradle 9.4.0 (released 2026-03-04). Gradle now supports Java 26. This release significantly improves test reporting and execution by introducing support for non-class-based tests, enabling direct execution of Cucumber features and custom test engines, and capturing richer test metadata directly into HTML reports. There are notable command-line interface and problem reporting refinements, including high-resolution progress bars with native terminal integration, a more intuitive Problems HTML report, and expanded output formats for the PMD plugin. This version also enhances build authoring with simplified APIs, improves Configuration Cache debugging with clearer attribution for closures and lambdas, and adds security improvements, including Bearer token authentication for the Gradle Wrapper and automatic cleanup of daemon logs. We've refined plugin authoring by adding default plugin IDs and stricter validation for published plugins. Finally, tooling integration improvements provide new Tooling API models plus granular control over Tooling API parallelism.