Gradle Build Tool: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Gradle Build Tool from Gradle

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-13

What is Gradle Build Tool?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementGradle is a highly scalable build automation tool designed to handle everything from large, multi-project enterprise builds to quick development tasks across various languages. Gradle’s modular, performance-oriented architecture seamlessly integrates with development environments, making it a go-to solution for building, testing, and deploying applications on Java, Kotlin, Scala, Android, Groovy, C++, and Swift.
 

The entire lifecycle of Gradle Build Tool

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Gradle Build Tool. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Gradle Build Tool (Gradle) release, version and end-of-life information
XGradle Build Tool (Gradle) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Gradle Build Tool (Gradle)
 

What is the Gradle Build Tool release strategy?

For major versions, Gradle will backport critical fixes and security fixes to the last minor in the previous major version. For example, when Gradle 7 was the latest major version, several releases were made in the 6.x line, including Gradle 6.9 (and subsequent releases). As such, each major Gradle release causes: The previous major version becomes maintenance only. It will only receive critical bug fixes and security fixes. The major version before the previous one to become end-of-life (EOL), and that release line will not receive any new fixes.

Facts and figures about Gradle Build Tool

Product
Gradle Build Tool
Vendor
Gradle
Latest version
9.5.1
Number of releases
7
Number of versions
394
Number of unstable versions
262
Number of versions affected by CVE
240
Licence
Commercial
 
 

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