# Gradle Technologies Renames Itself Develocity

DevFeed: [Gradle Technologies Renames Itself Develocity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-24696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.gradle.org/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle>)

Author: Gradle Build Tool

Published: 2026-07-17T04:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [The Gradle Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-gradle-blog.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

Gradle Technologies renamed itself Develocity in June 2026. The Gradle Build Tool remains unchanged, free, open source, and Apache 2.0-licensed.

## Source excerpt

Names are like infrastructure. They mostly work invisibly, which means the rare occasions when they don't work generate confusion wildly out of proportion to the underlying facts. Our name has had a known bug, and we have finally shipped a fix. This post explains what changed, what emphatically did not, and why the word "Develocity" now appears near the word "Gradle" in places like search results and the header of this website. The short version, for people who close browser tabs quickly: our company renamed itself from Gradle Technologies to Develocity in June 2026. The build tool is not renamed, not acquired, not relicensed, and not changing hands. It remains free, open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, and at home right here at gradle.org. If your interest in corporate naming decisions is limited (a healthy instinct), you can stop reading now, and your builds will be entirely unaffected. For everyone else, some institutional mechanics (and an FAQ). One word, two referents In 2008, Hans Dockter started building a build tool and called it Gradle. Some years later, there was a company, and, following the extremely common pattern for companies formed around a successful open source project, it was also called Gradle. This works fine right up until the company starts doing things that are not the build tool, at which point every sentence containing the word "Gradle" acquires a footnote. We know this because we literally maintain that footnote: the fine print at the bottom of this website has said, for years, that "Gradle" on these pages means Gradle Build Tool and not Gradle, Inc. When a name requires a standing disclaimer to be parsed correctly, the name has a bug. The company side of the house has, for close to a decade, built a commercial product called Develocity: a universal toolchain & artifact observability platform that works with Gradle, and also with Maven, Bazel, npm, sbt, and other toolchains that are conspicuously not Gradle. (The free Build Scan service is po