# Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration

DevFeed: [Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/solving-gradle-metadata-and-renovate-integration-18921.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.frankel.ch/gradle-metadata-renovate-integration/>)

Author: Nicolas Fränkel

Published: 2026-08-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Nicolas Fränkel](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nicolas-frankel.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [renovate](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/renovate.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Groovy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/groovy.md>)

Tags: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [dependency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [renovate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/renovate.md>), [software-supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-supply-chain.md>), [supply-chain-attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain-attacks.md>), [supply-chain-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain-security.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes setting up Renovate for a Gradle project and investigating why merges of updated dependency versions caused build failures. It also discusses dependency verification and software supply chain risks.

## Source excerpt

My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn't make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must admit that the developers who actually implemented the build files did a pretty good job overall: they used Kotlin instead of Groovy, they moved code to regular plugins, etc. This week, I worked on improvements to a new project and set up Renovate.