Why did a trivial AndroidX task that just prints a git SHA take over a second per build? Aurimas Liutikas tracks the cost to a place build scans don't show: Gradle's input fingerprinting. Two small changes later, the task is 24x faster.

Gradle's Paul Merlin traces the evolution of Gradle's DSLs, from Groovy to Kotlin to Declarative Gradle, and where each fits today, recorded at KotlinConf 2026.

Also from KotlinConf 2026, Marcin Mycek gives a first look at the Kotlin ecosystem plugin for Declarative Gradle, which brings declarative configuration to Kotlin projects.

For years, "Gradle" has meant two things: the open source build tool and the company behind it. That bug is now fixed: on June 30, the company renamed itself from Gradle Technologies to Develocity and moved to develocity.ai.

For the build tool, nothing really changes.

Laura Kassovic and Louis Jacomet published a three-part series on making Gradle fast on ephemeral CI agents, with benchmarked numbers for every technique:

• Part 1: Startup - priming the Gradle distribution in your CI image cuts startup by ~24%.
• Part 2: Configuration - dependency caching was the biggest single lever at ~28%.
• Part 3: Execution - local and remote Build Cache, transforms, and JDK caches.

The stale bot is retired. Every issue and pull request on gradle/gradle now gets a human response within a week, backed by a purpose-built issue-management action that automates metadata checks, feedback loops, and re-triage of comments on closed issues.

Louis Jacomet and Vlad Chesnokov explain how the team handles ~110 incoming issues a month and more.

Gradle Profiler 0.25.0 is out! Highlights include a new --single-shot option, IntelliJ IDEA sync benchmarking on the 2025.3 platform, and distribution via SDKMAN (sdk install gradleprofiler).