[KAFKA-2185] Update to Gradle 2.4

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Ismael Juma
• Reporter: Ismael Juma
• Reviewer: Jun Rao
• Created: 11/May/15 19:42
• Updated: 29/May/15 00:24
• Resolved: 29/May/15 00:24

Description

Gradle 2.4 has been released recently while Kafka is still using Gradle 2.0. There have been a large number of improvements over the various releases (including performance improvements):

https://gradle.org/docs/2.1/release-notes
https://gradle.org/docs/2.2/release-notes
https://gradle.org/docs/2.3/release-notes
http://gradle.org/docs/current/release-notes