Road to Gradle 9 with Louis Jacomet

Louis Jacomet, tech lead at Gradle Inc., outlines the key focus areas for Gradle 9: Configuration Cache becoming the preferred execution mode (with opt-out deprecated), Isolated Projects for parallel and incremental configuration, Kotlin 2.0 integration leveraging the K2 compiler, a major migration to lazy Provider APIs using bytecode transforms, and Java 23 support. The release targets performance, comprehensibility, and modern language support. Documentation improvements including a new Gradle Cookbook and faster PR-to-docs pipeline are also underway.