0.16 Double Eight

Release

Date: 2023-07-25
Version: 0.16

• New: AGP 8.0.2, AGP 8.1-rc, AGP 8.2-beta
• New: Gradle 8.0.2, Gradle 8.1.1, Gradle 8.2.1, Gradle 8.3-rc-1
• New: Revived Graph visualization plugin
• Breaking: Removed support for AGP 3.x, AGP 4.x
• Breaking: Removed support for Gradle 5.x, Gradle 6.x

Changes

For the full list of changes see release milestone and diff.

Breaking

• Remove support: AGP 3.x, AGP 4.x, Gradle 5.x, Gradle 6.x.
  Supported now: AGP 7.0-8.2, Gradle 7.0-8.3 (Epic #369)
  • Remove Gradle 5.x and 6.x support (implies AGP 3.x and 4.x support removed) (#434, #322)
  • Remove most of AGP pre-7.x code (#435)
  • Clean up outdated language dependencies (Java 8, Kotlin 1.3) (#439)
  • Remove all mentions of instant app in AGP (#375/#449)
  • Migrate AndroidManifest.xml to namespace (#233/#450)
  • Modernize testing frameworks and test fixtures (#452)
  • settings.gradle.kts consistently in all tests (#460)
  • Bump build-tools versions (#469/#471)
• Cutting edge support: AGP alpha/beta/rc CI, Gradle RCs
  • Add CI job for latest stable and preview combinations (#494/#496)

New

• Nagging settings plugin: since Gradle 8.3 it's necessary to add a separate plugin (apart from bringing in the classpath with ...plugin.settings):

  plugins {
      id("net.twisterrob.gradle.plugin.nagging") version "..."
  }

  • Increase exception stack trace limit for Gradle deprecation nagging (#560)
  • Support Gradle 8.3-rc-1 (#550)
  • Experimental Gradle.buildFinishedCompat { } (#555)
• Graph, see https://www.twisterrob.net/project/gradle-graph/
  • Revive Graph plugin (#519, #520)
  • Migrate Groovy and Java code to Kotlin (#522)
  • Random cleanup, refactors, improvements (#525)
  • Upgrade d3 3.5.5 to 7.8.4 + slight modernization (#526)
  • Improve developer experience and code (#530)
  • Split JS out of HTML and infer types (#532)
• dependencies: Android Gradle Plugin 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 (#470, #502)
  • Support AGP 8.0.2 (#472, #473, #485, #491)
  • Support AGP 8.1.0-beta05 updated from 8.1.0-alpha11 (#475, #487, #489, #503, #524)
  • Support AGP 8.2.0-beta13 updated from 8.2.0-alpha05 (#504, #515, #517, #531, #535, #536, #541, #546, #549)
• dependencies: Gradle
  • Support Gradle 7.6.2 (#538)
  • Support Gradle 8.0.2 (#403)
  • Support Gradle 8.1.1 (#440, #463, #467, #476)
  • Support Gradle 8.2.1 (#484, #495, #505, #518, #537, #539, #544)
  • Support Gradle 8.3-rc-1 (#550)

Fixes

• Accessing value buildConfigFields has no effect as the feature buildConfig is disabled. (#553/#470/#550)
• Do not ignore needed Kotlin internals. (#493/#552)
• Gradle caching, configuration cache, best practices
  • Mark cacheability of all tasks (#291/#457)
  • Improve configuration cache compatibility (#155/#514)
  • Review .provider { } usages (#454)
• dependencies:
  • org.eclipse.jgit from 6.5.0.202303070854-r to 6.6.0.202305301015-r (#529)
  • se.bjurr.violations:violations-lib from 1.156.2 to 1.156.5 (#429, #479, #507)

Internal

• Release 0.16 (#428, #557)

• build: Improvements

  • Move root build.gradle.kts to Gradle convention plugins (#169/#466)
  • Gradle Enterprise 3.12.4 to 3.14 (#430, #436, #468, #486, #488, #492, #534, #548)
  • org.gradle.toolchains:foojay-resolver from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 (#545)
  • com.gradle.plugin-publish 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 (#453)
  • Kotlin from 1.8.10 to 1.9.0 (#459, #480, #521, #540)
  • Dokka from 1.8.10 to 1.8.20 (#512)
  • Detekt from 1.22.0 to 1.23.0 (#490)

• dependencies: Testing

  • Code browser modules + test PMD with Gradle's current version (#458)
  • org.junit-pioneer from 1.9.1 to 2.0.1 (#446, #474)
  • junit5 from 5.9.2 to 5.10.0 (#483, #559)
  • mockito from 4.11.0 to 5.4.0 (#365, #386, #391, #447, #464, #477, #533 + #508)
  • mockk from 1.13.4 to 1.13.5 (#465)

• Cleanup

  • Fix all Detekt issues (#445)
  • Run detekt on gradle/plugins and graph included builds (#556)
  • Reduce detekt CI tasks and add missing reports (#451/#461)
  • Renovate: Fix Gradle upgrades leaking into AGP upgrades (#478/#547)

Full Changelog: v0.15.1...v0.16