--- title: The Company Formerly Known as Gradle | daily.dev description: Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle Build Tool, has renamed itself to Develocity as of June 2026. The rename reflects the company's commercial... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-rruxfrrvt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Company Formerly Known as Gradle | daily.dev og:description: Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle Build Tool, has renamed itself to Develocity as of June 2026. The rename reflects the company's commercial... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-rruxfrrvt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RrUXFrRvt.png og:image:alt: The Company Formerly Known as Gradle og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Company Formerly Known as Gradle **[Gradle Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gradle-blog)** · 6 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle Build Tool, has renamed itself to Develocity as of June 2026. The rename reflects the company's commercial center of gravity shifting toward its Develocity platform, which supports multiple build systems beyond Gradle. The Gradle Build Tool itself is unaffected: it remains free, open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, and maintained by the same team. The legal entity remains Gradle, Inc. gradle.com now redirects to develocity.ai, while gradle.org stays the home of the build tool. The branding change follows the 'Next.js by Vercel' convention, making the relationship between the tool and its corporate steward clearer at a glance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Did Gradle Technologies get acquired or change its name to Develocity? Gradle Technologies renamed itself to Develocity in June 2026; this is a corporate rename, not an acquisition. No ownership changed, no money changed hands, and no investors arrived or departed. The legal entity is still Gradle, Inc., with only the operating name changed. The Gradle Build Tool itself is unaffected. _daily.dev helps developers separate real acquisitions from cosmetic corporate renames like this one._ ### Is the Gradle Build Tool license changing after the Develocity rename? No, Gradle Build Tool remains Apache 2.0 licensed and stays free and open source. Develocity's commercial product is not an enterprise edition of the build tool; it sells observability and acceleration across multiple build systems including Maven, Bazel, npm, and sbt, so there is no open-core mechanism to relicense the tool through. _Developers tracking licensing changes across their toolchain rely on daily.dev to catch news like this early._ ### Does gradle.com still work, and where should I go for Gradle Build Tool documentation? gradle.com now redirects to develocity.ai, the renamed company's site, while gradle.org remains the home for the Gradle Build Tool, its documentation, downloads, community Slack, and forums. Anyone looking for the build tool rather than the commercial Develocity platform should use gradle.org directly. _daily.dev keeps developers oriented when project sites and company branding shift like Gradle's did._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Avoiding the Next Supply Chain Disaster with GitHub and Gradle](https://daily.dev/posts/avoiding-the-next-supply-chain-disaster-with-github-and-gradle-p2pxv5wdn) · Gradle Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Retiring Accelerate: One Brand, One Clear Path](https://daily.dev/posts/retiring-accelerate-one-brand-one-clear-path-arug8tzta) · Avalonia UI Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitLab 19.0 targets the gap between writing code and shipping it](https://daily.dev/posts/gitlab-19-0-targets-the-gap-between-writing-code-and-shipping-it-jmuidkvw4) · The Next Web · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google to unify AI coding tools under Antigravity](https://daily.dev/posts/google-to-unify-ai-coding-tools-under-antigravity-yazrwvrco) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#gradle](https://daily.dev/tags/gradle) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-rruxfrrvt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Company Formerly Known as Gradle","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-rruxfrrvt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-company-formerly-known-as-gradle-rruxfrrvt"},"datePublished":"2026-07-17T22:10:54.942Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:32:28.820Z","description":"Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle Build Tool, has renamed itself to Develocity as of June 2026. 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