What version of Java is Gradle using?

Gradle now supports running on and building with Java 16 , or Java Development Kit (JDK) 16, which was released on March 16. To support JDK 16, Gradle has been upgraded to use the Groovy 3 language in Groovy DSL build scripts.

Gradle now supports running on and building with Java 17 . In previous Gradle versions, running Gradle itself on Java 17 resulted in an error. JVM projects could have been built with Java 17 using toolchains. As of Gradle 7.3, both running Gradle itself and building JVM projects with Java 17 is fully supported.

Version 6.3 The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 6.3. This release features support for Java 14 , improved error messages, as well as several other enhancements and bug fixes.

Gradle can only run on Java version 8 or higher . Gradle still supports compiling, testing, generating Javadoc and executing applications for Java 6 and Java 7.