Release announcements, tips, and events focused on boosting developer productivity with Develocity and Gradle.

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New from #Gradle! 🌐 #Develocity Universal Cache 🌐 Three revolutionary caching technologies in one place: 📦 Artifact Cache - Caching inputs before the build ⏱️ Setup Cache - Caching environments at build time 🔄 Build Cache - Caching outputs for future builds gradle.com/blog/universal-ca…
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📣 Gradle 9.8.0 is out! docs.gradle.org/9.8.0/releas… Bug fixes and… ☕ Java 27 support 🪞Maven mirror settings reuse 🔗 Linked problem locations in build output Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!
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📣 Gradle 9.8.0 RC3 is out and ready for testing 🔬 docs.gradle.org/9.8.0-rc-3/r… Bug fixes and… ☕ Java 27 support 🪞Maven mirror settings reuse 🔗 Linked problem locations in build output Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!
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📣 Gradle 9.8.0 RC2 is out and ready for testing 🔬 docs.gradle.org/9.8.0-rc-2/r… Bug fixes and… ☕ Java 27 support 🪞Maven mirror settings reuse 🔗 Linked problem locations in build output Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!
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Quick tip 🛠️ Token efficiency for agents: - A task that reruns for no reason reprints its output every time - That output becomes context you pay for - Fix the cache miss, cut the token spend develocity.ai/product/build-…
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Develocity 2026.2 highlights: - Build Caching Optimizer: agents diagnose and fix cache misses - Artifact Cache adds SonarQube tooling + Maven snapshots - Setup Cache now caches buildSrc and included builds develocity.ai/releases/2026.…
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Quick tip 🛠️ Cache key debugging in #Develocity: - See exactly what inputs formed the cache key - Spot volatile timestamps or absolute paths instantly - No guessing from logs develocity.ai/product/build-…
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New from #Develocity! We ran a benchmark most vendors won't: Same model, same problems, one variable changed: - Logs only: 4/40 runs solved - + Build Scan data: 36/40 runs solved Full results: develocity.ai/blog/build-cac…
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Quick tip 🛠️ Cache miss triage, in order: - Start from avoidable miss rate, not total hit rate - Check for overlapping task outputs first - Then volatile inputs: timestamps, hostnames, build IDs develocity.ai/product/build-…
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We pointed a new agent-benchmarking harness at a real Gradle bug: Fable 5.1 vs Astra 6, same prompt, same 50-turn limit. Both fixed it (but not the same way). Diffs, cost, tokens, and which fix we're merging, on the blog: blog.gradle.org/two-agents-o…
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📣 Gradle 9.8.0 RC1 is out and ready for testing 🔬 docs.gradle.org/9.8.0-rc-1/r… Bug fixes and… ☕ Java 27 support 🪞Maven mirror settings reuse 🔗 Linked problem locations in build output Please report any 🐛 on GitHub!
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New post: Your Toolchain Is Production Now AI agents remove the human shock absorber that hid slow builds and flaky tests. Treat your toolchain like the production system it now is. develocity.ai/blog/your-tool… #Develocity #DPE
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🚨 DPE Summit is returning for its 5th year at the Midway in San Francisco! Join us on Feb 2-3 2027 for 2 packed days of talks and networking with some of the biggest names and companies in the industry! Early Bird pricing ends on October 23, don't miss your chance to attend DPE Summit 2027! 👉 Register, submit your talk, and ask questions - dpe.org/dpe-summit #AI #contextengineering #DPE #DX
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#Develocity MCP servers ship with Skills (added in 2026.1): - Guided workflows encode years of build-debugging expertise - Bundled with Develocity MCP servers, auto-invoked - Faster, more reliable root cause analysis for agents + devs develocity.ai/releases/2026.…
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You patch your dependencies. You patch your base images. You patch your CI runners. Who patches your build tool? Introducing the Gradle Security Subscription: fixes under SLA, coverage beyond end-of-life, disclosure before it's public. blog.gradle.org/gradle-secur…
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New post: How Develocity Found a Bug in the Java Compiler - Build Cache kept missing for no visible reason - Root cause: two bytes, swapped, in javac's own output - Caught only by comparing two complete Build Scans develocity.ai/blog/develocit…
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Debugging build failures — #Develocity gives you: - Full stack trace + assertion per test - Resolved dependency graph at time of failure - Every cache decision and why it happened - One Build Scan, not scattered logs develocity.ai/product/build-…
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Quick tip 🛠️ Flaky test triage in #Develocity: - Auto-detect tests that flip across runs - Quarantine via the Tests API, without deleting tests - Track flip rate trends over time - Rank by flaky rate and duration cost develocity.ai/product/flaky-…
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