# Upgrading your build from Gradle 6.x to the latest

version 6.3

This chapter provides the information you need to migrate your Gradle 6.x builds to the latest Gradle release. For migrating from Gradle 4.x or 5.x, see the older migration guide first.

We recommend the following steps for all users:

1. Try running `gradle help --scan` and view the deprecations view of the generated build scan.

   This is so that you can see any deprecation warnings that apply to your build.

   Alternatively, you could run `gradle help --warning-mode=all` to see the deprecations in the console, though it may not report as much detailed information.

2. Update your plugins.

   Some plugins will break with this new version of Gradle, for example because they use internal APIs that have been removed or changed. The previous step will help you identify potential problems by issuing deprecation warnings when a plugin does try to use a deprecated part of the API.

3. Run `gradle wrapper --gradle-version 6.3` to update the project to 6.3.

4. Try to run the project and debug any errors using the Troubleshooting Guide.

## Upgrading from 6.2

### Potential breaking changes

#### Fewer dependencies available in IDEA

Gradle no longer includes the annotation processor classpath as provided dependencies in IDEA. The dependencies IDEA sees at compile time are the same as what Gradle sees after resolving the compile classpath (configuration named `compileClasspath`). This prevents the leakage of annotation processor dependencies into the project’s code.

Before Gradle introduced incremental annotation processing support, IDEA required all annotation processors to be on the compilation classpath to be able to run annotation processing when compiling in IDEA. This is no longer necessary because Gradle has a separate annotation processor classpath. The dependencies for annotation processors are not added to an IDEA module’s classpath when a Gradle project with annotation processors is imported.

#### Updates to bundled Gradle dependencies

- Kotlin has been updated to Kotlin 1.3.70.

- Groovy has been updated to Groovy 2.5.10.

#### Updates to default tool integration versions

- PMD has been updated to PMD 6.21.0.

- CodeNarc has been updated to CodeNarc 1.5.

#### Rich console support removed for some 32-bit operating systems

Gradle 6.3 does not support the rich console for 32-bit Unix systems and for old FreeBSD versions (older than FreeBSD 10). Microsoft Windows 32-bit is unaffected.

Gradle will continue building projects on 32-bit systems but will no longer show the rich console.

### Deprecations

#### Using default and archives configurations

Almost every Gradle project has the default and archives configurations which are added by the base plugin. These configurations are no longer used in modern Gradle builds that use variant aware dependency management and the new publishing plugins.

While the configurations will stay in Gradle for backwards compatibility for now, using them to declare dependencies or to resolve dependencies is now deprecated.

Resolving these configurations was never an intended use case and only possible because in earlier Gradle versions every configuration was resolvable. For declaring dependencies, please use the configurations provided by the plugins you use, for example by the Java Library plugin.

## Upgrading from 6.1

### Potential breaking changes

#### Compile and runtime classpath now request library variants by default

A classpath in a JVM project now explicitly requests the `org.gradle.category=library` attribute. This leads to clearer error messages if a certain library cannot be used. For example, when the library does not support the required Java version. The practical effect is that now all platform dependencies have to be declared as such. Before, platform dependencies also worked, accidentally, when the `platform()` keyword was omitted for local platforms or platforms published with Gradle Module Metadata.

#### Properties from project root `gradle.properties` leaking into `buildSrc` and included builds

There was a regression in Gradle 6.2 and Gradle 6.2.1 that caused Gradle properties set in the project root `gradle.properties` file to leak into the `buildSrc` build and any builds included by the root.

This could cause your build to start failing if the `buildSrc` build or an included build suddenly found an unexpected or incompatible value for a property coming from the project root `gradle.properties` file.

The regression has been fixed in Gradle 6.2.2.

### Deprecations

There were no deprecations between Gradle 6.1 and 6.2.

## Upgrading from 6.0 and earlier

### Deprecations

#### Querying a mapped output property of a task before the task has completed

Querying the value of a mapped output property before the task has completed can cause strange build failures because it indicates stale or non-existent outputs may be used by mistake. This behavior is deprecated and will emit a deprecation warning. This will become an error in Gradle 7.0.

The following example demonstrates this problem where the Producer’s output file is parsed before the Producer executes:

    class Consumer extends DefaultTask {
        @Input
        final Property<Integer> threadPoolSize = ...
    }

    class Producer extends DefaultTask {
        @OutputFile
        final RegularFileProperty outputFile = ...
    }

    // threadPoolSize is read from the producer's outputFile
    consumer.threadPoolSize = producer.outputFile.map { it.text.toInteger() }

    // Emits deprecation warning
    println("thread pool size = " + consumer.threadPoolSize.get())

Querying the value of `consumer.threadPoolSize` will produce a deprecation warning if done prior to `producer` completing, as the output file has not yet been generated.

#### Discontinued methods

The following methods have been discontinued and should no longer be used. They will be removed in Gradle 7.0.

- `BasePluginConvention.setProject(ProjectInternal)`

- `BasePluginConvention.getProject()`

- `StartParameter.useEmptySettings()`

- `StartParameter.isUseEmptySettings()`

#### Alternative JVM plugins (a.k.a "Software Model")

A set of alternative plugins for Java and Scala development were introduced in Gradle 2.x as an experiment based on the "software model". These plugins are now deprecated and will eventually be removed. If you are still using one of these old plugins (`java-lang`, `scala-lang`, `jvm-component`, `jvm-resources`, `junit-test-suite`) please consult the documentation on Building Java & JVM projects to determine which of the stable JVM plugins are appropriate for your project.

### Potential breaking changes

#### `ProjectLayout` is no longer available to worker actions as a service

In Gradle 6.0, the `ProjectLayout` service was made available to worker actions via service injection. This service allowed for mutable state to leak into a worker action and introduced a way for dependencies to go undeclared in the worker action.

`ProjectLayout` has been removed from the available services. Worker actions that were using `ProjectLayout` should switch to injecting the `projectDirectory` or `buildDirectory` as a parameter instead.

#### Updates to bundled Gradle dependencies

- Kotlin has been updated to Kotlin 1.3.61.

#### Updates to default tool integration versions

- Checkstyle has been updated to Checkstyle 8.27.

- PMD has been updated to PMD 6.20.0.

#### Publishing Spring Boot applications

Starting from Gradle 6.2, Gradle performs a sanity check before uploading, to make sure you don’t upload stale files (files produced by another build). This introduces a problem with Spring Boot applications which are uploaded using the `components.java` component:

    Artifact my-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar wasn't produced by this build.

This is caused by the fact that the main `jar` task is disabled by the Spring Boot application, and the component expects it to be present. Because the `bootJar` task uses the same file as the main `jar` task by default, previous releases of Gradle would either:

- publish a stale `bootJar` artifact

- or fail if the `bootJar` task hasn’t been called previously

A workaround is to tell Gradle what to upload. If you want to upload the `bootJar`, then you need to configure the outgoing configurations to do this:

    configurations {
       [apiElements, runtimeElements].each {
           it.outgoing.artifacts.removeIf { it.buildDependencies.getDependencies(null).contains(jar) }
           it.outgoing.artifact(bootJar)
       }
    }

Alternatively, you might want to re-enable the `jar` task, and add the `bootJar` with a different classifier.

    jar {
       enabled = true
    }

    bootJar {
       classifier = 'application'
    }