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What was shipped in Develocity 2026.3? 1️⃣ Artifact Cache now covers pip and Playwright. 2️⃣ Docker builds now produce a Build Scan. 3️⃣ Trusted Artifact Isolation splits the cache. AND other goodies. Which one are you going to try first? develocity.ai/releases/2026.… #WhatShipped #Develocity
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Your IDE sync crawls, but turning on Isolated Projects feels too risky for your CI. Can you split it? Set the flag in gradle.properties and turn it off on the CI command line, just like the Gradle team does. blog.gradle.org/isolated-pro… #OneFlag #Gradle
Screenshot of GitHub issue #37026, Isolated Project Support for Syncs Only, opened Mar 10: asks for a flag that enables Isolated Projects for syncs only, because org.gradle.unsafe.isolated-projects=true is currently a build-wide switch.

ALT Screenshot of GitHub issue #37026, Isolated Project Support for Syncs Only, opened Mar 10: asks for a flag that enables Isolated Projects for syncs only, because org.gradle.unsafe.isolated-projects=true is currently a build-wide switch.

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Your fresh CI runner downloads hundreds of megabytes before any test runs. Why? Stalled downloads fail jobs. Develocity 2026.3 caches them nearby, Python setup is up to 40% faster. develocity.ai/releases/2026.… #ShipNote #Develocity

Develocity 2026.3

Release notes and updates for Develocity 2026.3

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You're on Gradle 9.4.0, and the security fix ships only in the latest minor. Now what? Open-source fixes only reach the latest minor. The Gradle Security Subscription covers 9.2.x to 9.8.x: critical fixes within 7 days, high within 30 days. gradle.org/security-subscrip… #AskTheDocs #Gradle
gradle.org Security Subscription: the open-source promise (fixes limited to the latest minor), the coverage table showing 9.2.x to 9.7.x covered only by the subscription with a 7/30-day SLA, and what's in the subscription.

ALT gradle.org Security Subscription: the open-source promise (fixes limited to the latest minor), the coverage table showing 9.2.x to 9.7.x covered only by the subscription with a 7/30-day SLA, and what's in the subscription.

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Your agent passes its checks, but bugs still ship. More eyes on the PR won't help. An AI that writes its own tests can pass them and still be wrong. Use the test suite it didn't write, so green means go. develocity.ai/blog/regressio… #FromTheFounder #ContextEngineering

Why Regression Tests Will Remain Essential, Even with Smarter AI and Formal Verification | Develo...

No AI, however smart, can guarantee that a change breaks nothing that worked before. With agents making more changes, regression tests matter more, not less.

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New IntelliJ IDEA Tech Talk episode! @wolfs42, Principal Software Engineer at Develocity, joins @antonarhipov to investigate unnecessary task runs, check test history, and see how AI handles build problems in IntelliJ IDEA. 👉️ youtu.be/xBNBjYH-foE 👈️
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Agents can now upgrade your Gradle wrapper correctly using our new skill. We tested 7 models. How did they score? 0 of 7 models pinned it alone. With our skill, 4 scored 29/29. See the ranking: blog.gradle.org/introducing-… #HeadToHead #Gradle
Bar chart titled wrapper-upgrade skill test results: 7 models, each with a without-skill bar (grey) and a with-skill bar (teal). Claude Opus 5.5 16 and 29, Gemini 3.8 Flash 15 and 29, DeepSeek V4 Pro 13 and 29, GPT 5.6 Luna 13 and 29, Claude Sonnet 5 12 and 28, Claude Haiku 4.5 10 and 26, Qwen 3.6 35B 12 and 17.

ALT Bar chart titled wrapper-upgrade skill test results: 7 models, each with a without-skill bar (grey) and a with-skill bar (teal). Claude Opus 5.5 16 and 29, Gemini 3.8 Flash 15 and 29, DeepSeek V4 Pro 13 and 29, GPT 5.6 Luna 13 and 29, Claude Sonnet 5 12 and 28, Claude Haiku 4.5 10 and 26, Qwen 3.6 35B 12 and 17.

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Your build passes, but it misses the cache on work that didn’t change. Logs don’t say why. Two bytes change upstream and every downstream cache key resets, so you pay on every run. Build Scans show exactly which input changed. develocity.ai/blog/develocit… #WhatWeLearned #Develocity
Screenshot of the Build Scan comparison from the javac blog: same task in both builds, 2 class files differ, so the cache keys differ. Numbered markers 1 to 3 point to each.

ALT Screenshot of the Build Scan comparison from the javac blog: same task in both builds, 2 class files differ, so the cache keys differ. Numbered markers 1 to 3 point to each.

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Gradle Skills 1.1.0 is out 🐘 • Best Practices skill now works better on weaker agents • Wrapper Upgrade skill fixes rollback copy issues Give your AI agent real Gradle know-how 👇 github.com/gradle/gradle-ski…

Release 1.1.0 · gradle/gradle-skills

Minor improvements to make the Best Practices skill work better on weaker agents. Fixes potential copy problems when rolling back using the Wrapper Upgrade skill.

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Gradle Technologies is now Develocity, and gradle.com redirects to develocity.ai. FYI for anyone who missed the news. #Gradle #Develocity #Rebrand
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Your agents write fast. Then they wait on CI. Every failed build means more cost, more waiting. Cache what hasn't changed. Run only the tests you need. Get back to shipping. develocity.ai/blog/your-deve… #TheReframe #Develocity

Your Developers Are Still Paying for Your Toolchain | Develocity

The same loop bills you twice: once in tokens and compute, once in developer productivity. Only half of that bill is visible. The other half hides in salaries.

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📣 #Gradle 9.8.2 is out! docs.gradle.org/9.8.2/releas… Fixes regressions reported against 9.8.1. Report new 🐛 on GitHub!

Gradle 9.8.2 Release Notes

We are excited to announce Gradle 9.8.2.

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Why does reading a clock slow your build down? Gradle reads it constantly for traces and logs. On virtualized Windows that read is slow, and it compounds. 9.8.0 detects it at startup and switches source. Up to 45% faster there. docs.gradle.org/9.8.0/releas… #UnderTheHood #Gradle
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Anthropic wrote the best case for getting Predictive Test Selection. They proved test selection is mandatory at agentic volume, and what it costs to build your own. Which bucket do you fall in? Build your own OR buy from a vendor? develocity.ai/blog/anthropic… #HotTake #Develocity
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📣 #Gradle 8.14.6 is out! docs.gradle.org/8.14.6/relea… Fixes security issues and regressions reported against 8.14.5 Report new 🐛 on GitHub! #WhatsNew #Gradle
A white card. The Gradle logo sits above the version number 8.14.6 in large black type, with the line Available today. beneath it.

ALT A white card. The Gradle logo sits above the version number 8.14.6 in large black type, with the line Available today. beneath it.

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What does a self-propagating worm actually spend credentials on? Publishing. ChainDrop hit keyv, flat-cache and cache-manager in August. Develocity 2026.3 removes the static key, so a leaked credential can't fake trust. develocity.ai/releases/2026.… #IncidentRead #ArtifactCache
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Gradle 9.8.1 delivers three high-severity security patches and fixes three regressions from 9.8.0: dependency resolution, toolchain detection on Debian and Ubuntu, and Quarkus test log capture. docs.gradle.org/9.8.1/releas… #WhatsNew #Gradle

Gradle 9.8.1 Release Notes

We are excited to announce Gradle 9.8.1.

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"We got only four cache hits on the first try." Anugrah Singha at DPE Summit. Reaching 100% took declaring non-Java inputs and deleting out-of-band Maven scripts. Median build time is now 2.5 minutes. It started at 25. Have you taken the first step? #FromTheStage #DPESummit
Anugrah Singha and Jason Erickson on stage at the DPE Summit, standing either side of a lectern with an Okta-stickered laptop on it, Erickson mid-sentence with a hand raised.

ALT Anugrah Singha and Jason Erickson on stage at the DPE Summit, standing either side of a lectern with an Okta-stickered laptop on it, Erickson mid-sentence with a hand raised.

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🔒 Gradle 8.14.6 is out with patches for 3 vulnerabilities, including fixes for unauthenticated deserialization and SSL repository handling. If you're on 8.14.x, upgrade now docs.gradle.org/8.14.6/relea… #WhatsNew #Gradle

Gradle 8.14.6 Release Notes

Gradle 8.14.6 adds support for Java 24, Native Image toolchains, improved skipped test reporting, lazy dependency configuration for better performance, richer diagnostics via the Problems API, and a...

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Where did an agent learn how your build works? Questions tagged Gradle fell 98% in 3 years. Maven and Bazel too. Developers stopped asking in public and started asking models. So are you getting the right context? develocity.ai/product/contex… #WhereTheLineGoes #ContextEngineering
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Gradle 9.8.1 is out and there's 3 things you'll care about: ✅ Three high-severity holes patched. Upgrade if you run 9.x. ✅ Dependency resolution regression from 9.8.0, fixed. ✅ Quarkus test log capture, broken by 9.8.0, restored. docs.gradle.org/9.8.1/releas… #WhatsNew #Gradle
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