The current gradle version is extremely old

[ParkerM]

I recently cloned this repo to explore an issue, ran ./gradlew clean build, and was caught off guard by the sight of:

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.1-all.zip

Gradle 3.1 was published nearly 5 years ago, and other gradle-based projects in the spring-projects org seem to diligently abide gradle's release cadence.

I'd be happy to submit a PR to migrate towards a maintained version of gradle, but there are a bunch of bespoke buildscripts in the gradle/ and buildSrc/ directories that would probably break as a result.

[jzheaux]

I've been able to update to Gradle 6.9 in commits 133cd3e, 9655d05, and d033614.

To get to 7, we'll need to replace MergePlugin with something else that can generate a merged jar between test-support and test-support-unboundid. I haven't looked very far into it yet, but https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/blob/main/saml2/saml2-service-provider/spring-security-saml2-service-provider.gradle may provide some guidance.

Are you interested in helping update to Gradle 7?

[jzheaux]

Closed via 28f2ca6.