May, 1st 2016
The new version of the Gradle plugin gradle-download-task 3.0.0 has just been released. The plugin provides a Download
task that displays progress information while downloading files, just like Gradle does when it fetches an artifact from a repository.
April, 3rd 2016
I received a couple of requests lately concerning common problems when downloading files in Gradle build scripts using gradle-download-task. Almost all of these issues could be solved by just using gradle-download-task the right way instead of extending the plugin. I have collected a number of example build scripts for these issues over the last months and I thought it would be good idea to summarize them here.
January, 24th 2016
Version 2.7 of bson4jackson has just been released. bson4jackson adds support for BSON, a binary representation of JSON, to the Jackson JSON processor.
December, 20th 2015
Following the latest release of Vert.x 3.2 I’ve just uploaded a new version of vertx-lang-typescript 1.1.0. The library adds TypeScript support to Vert.x 3. TypeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It supports the ECMAScript 6 (ECMAScript 2015, ES6) standard and also a few parts of ECMAScript 7 (ES7) already.
December, 15th 2015
Today I’m happy to announce new versions of bson4jackson 2.6.0 and gradle-download-task 2.1.0. bson4jackson adds support for BSON, a binary representation of JSON, to the Jackson JSON processor. gradle-download-task is a Gradle plugin that provides a Download
task displaying progress information while downloading files—just like Gradle does when it fetches an artifact from a repository.
October, 7th 2015
I’m happy to announce the first stable version of vertx-lang-typescript. The library adds support for (the all-new) TypeScript 1.6 to (the also all-new) Vert.x 3.1 or higher.