gradle-play-publisher v3.0.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-09-09 // about 4 years ago-
Note: Gradle 6.5 and the Android Gradle Plugin v4.1.0 are the new minimum requirements. GPP 2.x will not support AGP 4.1 or above.
๐ New features
- ๐ Better compatibility with the
maven-publish
plugin. If present, GPP will now add its dependencies to thepublish
task. - Proxy authentication courtesy of @wintermute766.
๐ Bug fixes
- ๐ Fixed a critical issue where
playConfigs
would sometimes inadvertently overwrite each other.
๐ฅ Breaking changes
- ๐ All properties now use the Gradle Property API. Upgrade steps: change
foo = blah
tofoo.set(blah)
. For more guidance, see the updated docs. - ๐ The
outputProcessor
property has been removed. The same functionality can now be achieved using native AGP APIs. - ๐ Support for PKCS12 credentials (aka
.p12
files) has been removed along with theserviceAccountEmail
property. Use JSON credentials instead. - ๐ Deprecated task names have been removed.
- ๐
promo-graphics
are no longer supported in the Publishing API and have been removed.
Behavior changes
Promote task
The promote task now handles its different configuration options more simply. Promotion needs a from track and a promote track. If the
fromTrack
isn't specified explicitly, the least stable release track will be used. If thepromoteTrack
isn't specified explicitly, it will be assumed that you want to do an in-place update so the resolvedfromTrack
will be used. Previously, thetrack
property was involved in the computation of both other properties. - ๐ Better compatibility with the
Previous changes from v2.8.0
-
- Support for authenticating GPP with an environment variable! See the docs.
- ๐ Support for in-app update priority.
- ๐ Fixed an incompatibility with Gradle 6.5.
- ๐ Fixed a crash publishing releases to a new track.
- โ Removed unnecessary warnings.
๐ > PS: this release uses a new publishing mechanism, so in theory you can use any of our modules directly (though this isn't officially supported).