# What's new in Gradle 5.0

DevFeed: [What's new in Gradle 5.0](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-gradle-5-0-24706.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.gradle.org/what-is-new-in-gradle-5>)

Author: Eric Wendelin

Published: 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

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

Tags: [compilation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compilation.md>), [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [incremental](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incremental.md>), [introduction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/introduction.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

An overview of Gradle 5.0 and its major changes since Gradle 4.0, including improved speed and memory efficiency, enhanced tools for inspecting and managing transitive dependencies, Kotlin DSL support, incremental compilation and annotation processing, dependency version troubleshooting, and new task APIs.

## Source excerpt

A lot has changed for Gradle since version 4.0 was released in mid-2017. Gradle 5.0 is much faster and more memory efficient than previous versions of Gradle, has better tools to inspect and manage transitive dependencies, and can provide the IDE assistance you'd always hoped and expected through a new Kotlin DSL. This 1-hour webcast demonstrates 4 key themes of Gradle 5.0: What Gradle's Kotlin DSL does and who should adopt it How to take full advantage of incremental compilation and annotation processing Why unexpected dependency version X was selected and how to fix it What new task APIs are available in Gradle 5.0 If you prefer just the info, check out this page on the highlights of Gradle 5.0 and recent releases.