Gradle Release Notes

We are excited to announce Gradle 9.6.0-20260510003052+0000 (released 2026-05-10).

This release features 1, 2, ... n, and more.

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:

Be sure to check out the public roadmap for insight into what's planned for future releases.

Upgrade instructions
New features and usability improvements
Configuration Cache improvements
Test reporting and execution
CLI, logging, and problem reporting
Build authoring improvements
Platform and toolchain management
Core plugin and plugin authoring enhancements
Security and infrastructure
Tooling and IDE integration
General improvements
Promoted features
Documentation and training
Fixed issues
Known issues
External contributions
Reporting problems

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 9.6.0-20260510003052+0000 by updating the wrapper in your project:

./gradlew :wrapper --gradle-version=9.6.0-20260510003052+0000 && ./gradlew :wrapper

See the Gradle 9.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes, and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 9.6.0-20260510003052+0000.

For Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and Android compatibility, see the full compatibility notes.

New features and usability improvements

Configuration Cache improvements

Gradle provides a Configuration Cache that improves build time by caching the result of the configuration phase and reusing it for subsequent builds.

Test reporting and execution

Gradle provides a set of features and abstractions for testing JVM code, along with test reports to display results.

CLI, logging, and problem reporting

Gradle provides an intuitive command-line interface, detailed logs, and a structured problems report that helps developers quickly identify and resolve build issues.

Gradle now supports a --non-interactive command-line option to disable all interactive console prompting. This is useful for running Gradle in automated environments such as CI pipelines, scripts, and AI agents where no user input is available.

See the Non-interactive mode section in the Gradle User Manual for more information.

NO_COLOR support

Gradle now honors the NO_COLOR environment variable following the no-color.org convention. When NO_COLOR is set and non-empty, Gradle suppresses color output while preserving other styling (bold, underline) and rich features (progress bars, animations).

NO-COLOR Screenshot

See the Environment variables section in the Gradle User Manual for more information.

Build authoring improvements

Gradle provides rich APIs for build engineers and plugin authors, enabling the creation of custom, reusable build logic and better maintainability.

Platform and toolchain management

Gradle provides comprehensive support for Native development and JVM languages, featuring automated Toolchains for seamless JDK management.

Core plugin and plugin authoring enhancements

Gradle provides a comprehensive plugin system, including built-in Core Plugins for standard tasks and powerful APIs for creating custom plugins.

Security and infrastructure

Gradle provides robust security features and underlying infrastructure to ensure that builds are secure, reproducible, and easy to maintain.

Tooling and IDE integration

Gradle provides Tooling APIs that facilitate deep integration with modern IDEs and CI/CD pipelines.

General improvements

Gradle provides various incremental updates and performance optimizations to ensure the continued reliability of the build ecosystem.

Promoted features

Promoted features are features that were incubating in previous versions of Gradle but are now supported and subject to backward compatibility. See the User Manual section on the "Feature Lifecycle" for more information.

The following are the features that have been promoted in this Gradle release.

getNetworkTimeout() in Wrapper

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