Gradle 5.5 second RC version has been released , this version improves build init function to generate better plug-in project, provides for the conversion dependencies API, declared Gradle properties of the organization-wide characteristics, as well as increasing the number of new native plug-in documentation and so on.
Major update is to repair the community report from the issue of RC1:
- # 9026 record "new" type of management
- # 9579 is no longer parse the additional value in the extended functions
- # 9615 binary read from memory, BuildIndexOutOfBoundsException build fails
- # 9641 introduces a delay solution results appear in the NPE analysis results deserialization
Check the release notes for more information .
Matters relating to the upgrade to note, as well as source code download, please click here to view .
Gradle is based on Apache Ant and Apache Maven project automation concept of building tools, support for dependency management and multi-project, similar to Maven , but simpler than the light. It uses based on Groovy domain-specific language to declare the project settings, rather than the traditional XML.
It supports the current language is limited to Java, Groovy and Scala, plan for the future will support more languages.