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Welcome to the November 2025 Gradle Build Tool newsletter! This month, we're bringing you Gradle 9.2.0, a new course for build engineers, enhancements to the Develocity IntelliJ Plugin, expansion of the Gradle Best Practices, and new Dependabot support for the Gradle Wrapper.
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From the community
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New posts
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Unreasonable Configuration – Aurimas explores how mis-structured Gradle configuration in large builds leads to unreasonable build times, and proposes strategies to simplify and refactor the configuration model.
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Cache, Cache, No Cache – Aurimas provides a deep dive into Gradle’s caching ecosystem: why some builds benefit massively while others stall, and how to diagnose caching bottlenecks.
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Why Agentic AI Tools Struggle with Maven’s Lifecycle Model – Benedikt examines why modern AI agents falter when working with Maven’s lifecycles, and reflects on lessons that build tool designers (including Gradle) should learn.
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Gradle Debugging Techniques – Martin walks through practical debugging patterns for Gradle builds, from logging and tools to task graph inspection and performance tuning.
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Maven-Hijack: Software Supply Chain Attack Exploiting Packaging Order – This paper introduces Maven-Hijack, a supply chain attack that exploits dependency packaging order and JVM class resolution to silently override core application behavior by injecting an identically named malicious class.
- How to Win Friends and Influence Internal Visibility – Joe shares actionable strategies for increasing your visibility and impact inside engineering organizations, covering relationship-building, credibility, and communicating your work effectively.
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New videos
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Speeding up inner dev loop with Gradle Configuration Cache – Alex and Mikhail @ droidcon Berlin give a practical look at how the Configuration Cache shrinks feedback loops for everyday development, with concrete examples of what you need to change (and avoid) in your build.
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Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules – Aurimas @ DPE Summit provides a tour of Gradle’s flexibility: custom logic, plugins, and build configuration patterns that let you shape the build to your team instead of the other way around.
- Faster Feedback Cut Gradle Build and Pipeline Times in Half – James @ droidcon Berlin gives a case-study-style session on how to tackle a slow pipeline by systematically cutting build and CI times—including ideas you can lift straight into your own setup.
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New releases
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From the Gradle team
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Gradle 9.2.0 release
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Gradle 9.2.0 brings several new features and improvements:
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Windows ARM support – Gradle can now run natively on Windows ARM devices
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Enhanced publishing API – New capabilities for defining and publishing custom software components
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Smarter error & warning reporting – Clearer suggestions (especially for dependency verification failures) and improved diagnostics
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