We are very excited to announce the release of Gradle 0.8. This release comes with major new features, like:
- The unique concept of source sets to fully support different project layouts.
- Gradle UI Runner
- Scala Support
- Checkstyle and Codenarc Support
- Smart Task Exclusion (exclude all tasks that have only the excluded task as a dependee).
- Camel case completion for task names.
- Support for buildNeeded and buildDependent groups in multi-project builds.
- You can use now an initialization script to configure and change pretty much any aspect of Gradle you like.
- Writing custom tasks is now easier.
- New powerful domain objects to work with file collections and file trees.
- Improved error reporting.
- Performance improvements
For the full release notes, see: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/Gradle+0.8+Release+Notes
User's guide: http://gradle.org/0.8/docs/userguide/userguide.html
Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/gradle/gradle-0.8-all.zip
IntelliJ 9.0 M1 provides Gradle support!
We are also excited about the launch of Gradle Inc. - the official Gradle company. Swing by the new site and say hello: http://www.gradle.biz