The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 5.6-rc-1.

Read the Release Notes

We would like to thank the following community contributors to this release of Gradle:

Roberto Perez Alcolea,
Dan Sănduleac,
Andrew K.,
Noa Resare,
Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero,
Semyon Levin,
wreulicke,
John Rodriguez,
mig4,
Evgeny Mandrikov,
Bjørn Mølgård Vester,
Simon Legner,
Sebastian Schuberth,
Ian Kerins,
Ivo Anjo,
Stefan M.,
Nickolay Chameev,
Dominik Giger,
Stephan Windmüller,
Zemian Deng,
Robin Verduijn,
Sandu Turcan,
Emmanuel Guérin,
Nikita Skvortsov,
and Christian Fränkel.

Upgrade Instructions

Switch your build to use Gradle 5.6-rc-1 by updating your wrapper:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=5.6-rc-1

See the Gradle 5.x upgrade guide to learn about deprecations, breaking changes and other considerations when upgrading to Gradle 5.6.

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.