## New and noteworthy

Here are the new features introduced in this Gradle release.

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## Promoted features

Promoted features are features that were incubating in previous versions of Gradle but are now supported and subject to backwards compatibility.
See the User guide section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.

The following are the features that have been promoted in this Gradle release.

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## Fixed issues

## Deprecations

Features that have become superseded or irrelevant due to the natural evolution of Gradle become *deprecated*, and scheduled to be removed
in the next major Gradle version (Gradle 2.0). See the User guide section on the “[Feature Lifecycle](userguide/feature_lifecycle.html)” for more information.

The following are the newly deprecated items in this Gradle release. If you have concerns about a deprecation, please raise it via the [Gradle Forums](http://forums.gradle.org).

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## Potential breaking changes

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## External contributions

We would like to thank the following community members for making contributions to this release of Gradle.

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We love getting contributions from the Gradle community. For information on contributing, please see [gradle.org/contribute](http://gradle.org/contribute).

## Known issues

Known issues are problems that were discovered post release that are directly related to changes made in this release.
