Feedback wanted! Ending beta period for 7.0

[nedtwigg]

Now that plugin-gradle 7.0.0.BETA4 and plugin-maven 2.44.0.BETA4 have shipped, I think that every major change is ready. There are three small issues I want to see closed-out before we can ship 7.0.0. They're all pretty easy, PR's welcome if you want to see the beta period end sooner!

• Better names for indentWithSpaces and indentWithTabs #794
• 7.0.0.BETA1: Multiple steps with name 'google-java-format' for spotless format 'java' #2159
• Plugins use dependencies that trigger CVEs #2166
• EDIT: Spotless 7.0 beta 3 and beta4 break configuration cache in GoogleJavaFormatStep #2318
• EDIT: Spotless Gradle plugin 7.0.0-BETA4 fails with "Cannot fingerprint input property 'stepsInternalEquality'" #2331
• EDIT: Exception when using Gradle configuration cache with nativeCmd #2347

If you have any issues with the new APIs for linting or roundtrip serialization, speak now or be stuck with it FOREEVVERRR!

@Goooler @blacelle @jbduncan @lehmanju @lutovich @fvgh @simschla

No pressure to look into this, but my default plan is to ship 7.0.0 one week from today, which is Halloween Oct 31. If you want more time to look it over, feel free to ask for more time in this issue.

Lint API

• Linting - breaking changes to internal API to prepare #2148
• Linting - API #2149
• Adjust existing steps to be lint-friendly #2305
• Lint suppression API for Gradle #2307
• Lint suppression API for Maven #2309 (TODO but not blocking anything, no rush)

Round-trip serialization (configuration cache rewrite)

• Support Gradle configuration cache on multiple JVMs  #1274
• Fix remote build cache #2298
• Make IDE hook work with configuration cache, take 2 #2308

Known bugs that won't get fixed before 7.0.0

• toggleOffOn breaks the configuration cache hack #2317
• Gradle plugin always invalidates configuration cache on github actions, when ratchetFrom is set #2249

[simschla]

@nedtwigg As far as I can tell as of now, these API changes LGTM.

[shyvum]

@nedtwigg any update on the release timeline for this?

[nedtwigg]

I could use help with #794, it's an easy one. The other two blockers, #2318 and #2331 are trickier, I'll look at them ASAP but I'm slammed atm.