CFP - Gradle Build Tool Newsletter - January 2025 Edition

[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!

[alpeshvas]

We recently published a blog on how we achieved 5x build time improvement for our main backend codebase at headout using advanced gradle tooling like remote build cache:

https://www.headout.studio/build-faster-ship-sooner-our-journey-from-15-to-3-minutes/

[britter]

I've written a blog post about how to wrap a Gradle project into Nix: https://britter.dev/blogs/2025-01-02-gradle-nix/

[liutikas]

I've written a post about signature verification: https://www.liutikas.net/2024/12/12/Trust-But-Verify-Dependencies.html

and a post about Gradle distribution contents: https://www.liutikas.net/2024/12/18/What-The-Distribution.html

[swpalmer-cl]

We recently published a blog on how we achieved 5x build time improvement for our main backend codebase at headout using advanced gradle tooling like remote build cache:

https://www.headout.studio/build-faster-ship-sooner-our-journey-from-15-to-3-minutes/

This link gives me a 404 error.

[autonomousapps]

https://dev.to/autonomousapps/gradle-extensions-part-2-now-with-shenanigans-12m6