Keep your Gradle Wrapper up-to-date! 🤖

Cristian Greco — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:56:07 +0000

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Are you using Gradle Wrapper in your project? How often do you update it?

Maintaining dependencies up-to-date is regarded as a good practice, and the build system files should be no exception!

The Update Gradle Wrapper Action aims to help keeping Gradle projects on GitHub polished to high standards and to strengthen the software supply chain in the Gradle ecosystem.

As soon as a new Gradle release is available, this action will open a PR to update your Wrapper files.

Check it out now: gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action

How to use it

Just create a new workflow file .github/workflows/update-gradle-wrapper.yml and paste this:

name: Update Gradle Wrapper

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"

jobs:
  update-gradle-wrapper:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Update Gradle Wrapper
      uses: gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action@v1
      with:
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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gradle-update / update-gradle-wrapper-action

Keep Gradle Wrapper up-to-date with this action.

Update Gradle Wrapper Action

This action keeps the Gradle Wrapper script in your projects up-to-date to the latest release.

Schedule an automatic daily or weekly workflow: as soon as a new Gradle release is available, the action will open a PR ready to be merged. It's like Dependabot for Gradle Wrapper. 🤖✨

Usage

Create a new dedicated workflow file:

.github/workflows/update-gradle-wrapper.yml

Paste this configuration:

name: Update Gradle Wrapper
on
  schedule
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"

jobs:
  update-gradle-wrapper:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Update Gradle Wrapper
        uses: gradle-update/update-gradle-wrapper-action@v1
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The action will run every day around…

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