# What's new in Gradle 6.0

DevFeed: [What's new in Gradle 6.0](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-gradle-6-0-24707.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.gradle.org/what-is-new-in-gradle-6>)

Author: Eric Wendelin

Published: 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Dependency management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dependency-management.md>), [toolchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/toolchain.md>), [Groovy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/groovy.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Scala](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scala.md>)

Tags: [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [dependency-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency-management.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [groovy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/groovy.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [new-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-features.md>), [scala](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scala.md>), [toolchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/toolchain.md>), [webinar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webinar.md>)

## AI overview

A webcast presents the main changes in Gradle 6.0, including a new metadata format for describing software components and improvements to dependency management, Java, Groovy, Scala toolchains, and plugin authoring.

## Source excerpt

Gradle 6.0 is the culmination of several years of innovative improvements in Dependency Management. Embracing the idea that there is more to software composition and reuse than just putting a set of jar files on the classpath, Gradle now offers a new metadata format to richly define software components that are often made up of multiple files, different variants and specific constraints on their dependencies. In particular, in this webcast Developer Advocate Jenn Strater and Gradle Engineer Jendrik Johannes discuss: What's New in Dependency Management Java, Groovy, and Scala toolchain improvements New features for plugin authors You can access the slides of the webinar here. If you want to try things out, feel free to use the demo project that we used during the webinar. Thanks to everyone that attended the webinar and thanks for your questions!