Gradle 5.6 Update: Making Groovy Compilation Faster

These new features and enhancements are totally groovy, man.

In this post, we will learn about the enhancements of about Gradle 5.6.

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1. The Exit of Leaking Authentication Data

It was found that authentication data may leak while using the Gradle build tool to resolve dependencies against the custom authenticated repository. Officials are unaware of anyone having exploited the flaw, and thus, you should definitely upgrade the version since the features causing this issue are within the codebase and hard to disable.