[BIGTOP-2825] Upgrade gradle to the latest 4.0

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: build, toolchain
• Assignee: Konstantin I Boudnik
• Reporter: Konstantin I Boudnik
• Created: 28/Jun/17 21:03
• Updated: 15/Jul/17 02:11
• Resolved: 15/Jul/17 02:11

Description

Following on BIGTOP-2808, let's upgrade the gradle build system to 4.0 - the improvements are numerous and we have fallen far behind the project's release train.

Issue Links

• relates to: BIGTOP-2808 Handle deletion of symlinks: update gradle