Update Gradle to v8.14.3

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Update	Change
gradle (source)	minor	8.4 -> 8.14.3

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Release Notes

gradle/gradle (gradle)

v8.14.3: 8.14.3

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.14.3.

This is a patch release for 8.14. We recommend using 8.14.3 instead of 8.14.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Java 24 support
• GraalVM Native Image toolchain selection
• Enhancements to test reporting
• Build Authoring improvements

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Aurimas,
Ben Bader,
Björn Kautler,
chandre92,
Daniel Hammer,
Danish Nawab,
Florian Dreier,
Ivy Chen,
Jendrik Johannes,
jimmy1995-gu,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Na Minhyeok.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.14.3 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.14.3 && ./gradlew wrapper

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.14.2: 8.14.2

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.14.2.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Java 24 support
• GraalVM Native Image toolchain selection
• Enhancements to test reporting
• Build Authoring improvements

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Aurimas,
Ben Bader,
Björn Kautler,
chandre92,
Daniel Hammer,
Danish Nawab,
Florian Dreier,
Ivy Chen,
Jendrik Johannes,
jimmy1995-gu,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Na Minhyeok.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.14.2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.14.2 && ./gradlew wrapper

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.14.1: 8.14.1

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.14.1.

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Aurimas,
Ben Bader,
Björn Kautler,
chandre92,
Daniel Hammer,
Danish Nawab,
Florian Dreier,
Ivy Chen,
Jendrik Johannes,
jimmy1995-gu,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Na Minhyeok.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.14.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.14.1 && ./gradlew wrapper

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.14: 8.14

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.14.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Aurimas,
Ben Bader,
Björn Kautler,
chandre92,
Daniel Hammer,
Danish Nawab,
Florian Dreier,
Ivy Chen,
Jendrik Johannes,
jimmy1995-gu,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Na Minhyeok.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.14 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.14 && ./gradlew wrapper

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.13: 8.13

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.13.

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We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Adam,
Adam,
Ahmad Al-Masry,
Ahmed Ehab,
Aurimas,
Baptiste Decroix,
Björn Kautler,
Borewit,
Jorge Matamoros,
Lei Zhu,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Mohammed Thavaf,
Patrick Brückner,
Philip Wedemann,
Roberto Perez Alcolea,
Róbert Papp,
Semyon Gaschenko,
Shi Chen,
Stefan M.,
Steven Schoen,
tg-freigmbh,
TheGoesen,
Tony Robalik,
Zongle Wang.

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.13 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.13 && ./gradlew wrapper

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.12.1: 8.12.1

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.12.1.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abhiraj Adhikary,
Ayush Saxena,
Björn Kautler,
davidburstrom,
Dominic Fellbaum,
Emmanuel Ferdman,
Finn Petersen,
Johnny Lim,
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh,
Martin Bonnin,
Paint_Ninja,
Petter Måhlén,
Philip Wedemann,
stegeto22,
Tanish,
TheGoesen,
Tim Nielens,
Trout Zhang,
Victor Merkulov

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.12.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.12.1

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.12: 8.12

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.12.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Abhiraj Adhikary,
Ayush Saxena,
Björn Kautler,
davidburstrom,
Dominic Fellbaum,
Emmanuel Ferdman,
Finn Petersen,
Johnny Lim,
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh,
Martin Bonnin,
Paint_Ninja,
Petter Måhlén,
Philip Wedemann,
stegeto22,
Tanish,
TheGoesen,
Tim Nielens,
Trout Zhang,
Victor Merkulov

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.12 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.12

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.11.1: 8.11.1

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This is a patch release for Gradle 8.11. We recommend users upgrade to 8.11.1 instead of 8.11.

It fixes the following issues:

• #​31268 BuildEventsListenerRegistry corrupted with Isolated Projects and parallel configuration
• #​31282 Running executables sporadically fails with ETXTBSY (Text file busy)
• #​31284 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException after upgrading to gradle 8.11 when generating problems report
• #​31310 Unable to run Gradle task in 8.10 due to bytecode interception

Read the Release Notes

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.11.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.11.1

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.11: 8.11

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.11.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Adam,
alyssoncs,
Bilel MEDIMEGH,
Björn Kautler,
Chuck Thomas,
Daniel Lacasse,
Finn Petersen,
JK,
Jérémie Bresson,
luozexuan,
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh,
Markus Gaisbauer,
Matthew Haughton,
Matthew Von-Maszewski,
ploober,
Siarhei,
Titus James,
vrp0211

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.11 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.11

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.10.2: 8.10.2

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This is a patch release for 8.10. We recommend using 8.10.2 instead of 8.10

It fixes the following issues:

• #​30472 Investigate possibly broken 8.10.1
• #​30477 Kotlin Mutliplatform build with reused daemon fails with "Cannot query the value of task ':compileKotlinWindows' property 'kotlinNativeBundleBuildService' because it has no value available."
• #​30497 DefaultTaskCollection#configureEach(Action) on task set cannot be executed in the current context

Issues fixed in the first patch release:

• #​30239 Gradle 8.10 Significantly Slower Due to Dependency Resolution
• #​30272 Broken equals() contract for LifecycleAwareProject
• #​30385 Gradle should not validate isolated projects when isolated projects is disabled

Read the Release Notes

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.10.2 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.10.2

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.10.1: 8.10.1

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This is a patch release for 8.10. We recommend using 8.10.1 instead of 8.10

It fixes the following issues:

• #​30239 Gradle 8.10 Significantly Slower Due to Dependency Resolution
• #​30272 Broken equals() contract for LifecycleAwareProject
• #​30385 Gradle should not validate isolated projects when isolated projects is disabled

Read the Release Notes

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.10.1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.10.1

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.10: 8.10

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.10.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Björn Kautler,
Craig Andrews,
gotovsky,
Jeff,
Kirill Gavrilov,
Madalin Valceleanu,
Sergei Vorobev,
Thach Le,
Thad Guidry

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.10 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.10

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.9: 8.9

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.9.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
/dev/mataha,
Alex-Vol-Amz,
Andrew Quinney,
Andrey Mischenko,
Björn Kautler,
dancer13,
Danish Nawab,
Endeavour233,
Gediminas Rimša,
gotovsky,
Jay Wei,
Jeff,
Madalin Valceleanu,
markslater,
Mel Arthurs,
Michael,
Nils Brugger,
Ole Osterhagen,
Piotr Kubowicz,
Róbert Papp,
Sebastian Davids,
Sebastian Schuberth,
Stefan Oehme,
Stefanos Koutsouflakis,
Taeik Lim,
Tianyi Tao,
Tim Nielens,
наб

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.9 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.9

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.8: 8.8

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.8.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Björn Kautler,
Denes Daniel,
Fabian Windheuser,
Hélio Fernandes Sebastião,
Jay Wei,
jhrom,
jwp345,
Jörgen Andersson,
Kirill Gavrilov,
MajesticMagikarpKing,
Maksim Lazeba,
Philip Wedemann,
Robert Elliot,
Róbert Papp,
Stefan M.,
Tibor Vyletel,
Tony Robalik,
Valentin Kulesh,
Yanming Zhou,
김용후

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.8 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.8

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.7: 8.7

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.7.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Aleksandr Postnov,
Björn Kautler,
Brice Dutheil,
Denis Buzmakov,
Federico La Penna,
Gregor Dschung,
Hal Deadman,
Hélio Fernandes Sebastião,
Ivan Gavrilovic,
Jendrik Johannes,
Jörgen Andersson,
Marie,
pandaninjas,
Philip Wedemann,
Ryan Schmitt,
Steffen Yount,
Tyler Kinkade,
Zed Spencer-Milnes

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.7 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.7

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.6: 8.6

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.6.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Baptiste Decroix,
Björn Kautler,
Daniel Lacasse,
Danny Thomas,
Hyeonmin Park,
jeffalder,
Jendrik Johannes,
John Jiang,
Kaiyao Ke,
Kevin Mark,
king-tyler,
Marcin Dąbrowski,
Marcin Laskowski,
Markus Gaisbauer,
Mel Arthurs,
Ryan Schmitt,
Surya K N,
Vladislav Golubtsov,
Yanshun Li,
Andrzej Ressel

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.6 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.6

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

v8.5: 8.5

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The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.5.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community members for their contributions to this release of Gradle:
Ahmed Ehab,
Alex Landau,
Aurimas,
Björn Kautler,
bodhili,
Daniel Le Berre,
davidburstrom,
Franz Wimmer,
Jongwoo Han,
Ken,
Leonardo Silveira,
Martin Bonnin,
Matthew Von-Maszewski,
Nik Clayton,
noeppi_noeppi,
Philip Wedemann,
Philipp Schneider,
Tomas Bjerre

Upgrade instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 8.5 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.5

See the Gradle 8.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading.

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

Reporting problems

If you find a problem with this release, please file a bug on GitHub Issues adhering to our issue guidelines.
If you're not sure you're encountering a bug, please use the forum.

We hope you will build happiness with Gradle, and we look forward to your feedback via Twitter or on GitHub.

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The project has been updated to use Gradle version 8.10, reflecting an essential upgrade from version 8.4. This change enhances compatibility with the latest features and improvements while maintaining the existing configuration settings. The update ensures that developers can leverage new functionalities and optimizations introduced in the newer Gradle release.

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gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated distributionUrl from Gradle 8.4 to 8.10.

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3-3: Gradle version update approved.

The distributionUrl has been successfully updated to use Gradle version 8.10, which aligns with the PR objectives of updating the Gradle dependency. This ensures compatibility with the latest Gradle features and improvements.