Gradle Newsletter | January 2026 - Gradle 9.3.0, AGP 9.0.0, and a free Gradle Plugin course

January 2026

Welcome to the January 2026 Gradle Build Tool newsletter! This month, we’re bringing you Gradle 9.3.0, a major Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 release, and new learning resources to help you author your own Gradle plugins.

From the community

New posts

Going Offline – Achieve reproducible, network-free builds using dependency locking and pre-fetching.
Kotlin vs R8 – See how aggressive CI cleanup causes unexpected build failures and performance hits.

New videos

Gradle 9 + KMP Projects – Overview of the breaking changes in Gradle 9 that impact KMP builds and how to migrate.

New releases

Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 – AGP 9.0 is a major release that brings API and behavior changes.

From the Gradle team

Gradle 9.3.0 release

In Gradle 9.3.0, HTML test reports get an IDE-style hierarchy for nested and parameterized tests, no more hunting through flat lists! We’ve also pinned stdout/stderr to individual tests and introduced a tabbed interface for aggregate reports.

Alongside this, bash/zsh completion v9.3.0 is out now and will remain synchronized with all future major and minor Gradle releases. Check the full release notes for more!