Update to Gradle 8.14.4 which partially supports Java 25, using:

$ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=8.14.4

Author: bogdandit

.github/workflows/gradle.yml

@@ -2,15 +2,24 @@
 # For more information see: https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/building-and-testing-java-with-gradle
 
 # Use GitHub Actions CI to verify successful Gradle builds on:
+# - Java 8 (LTS)
 # - Java 11 (LTS)
 # - Java 17 (LTS; officially supported since Gradle 7.3)
-# - Java 21 (latest LTS; officially supported since Gradle 8.4)
+# - Java 21 (LTS; officially supported since Gradle 8.4)
+# - Java 22 (deprecated; officially supported since Gradle 8.8)
 # - Java 23 (deprecated; officially supported since Gradle 8.10)
-# - Java 24 (current; to be deprecated in September 2025; officially supported since Gradle 8.14)
-# - Java 25 (LTS; to be released in September 2025; not officially supported by Gradle)
+# - Java 24 (deprecated; officially supported since Gradle 8.14)
+# - Java 25 (current; latest LTS; partially supported since Gradle 8.14.4)
+#   - NOTE: Java 25 will *NOT* be officially (fully) supported in Gradle 8,
+#           see https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/35111
+#   - NOTE: Java 25 is officially supported since Gradle 9.1, but Gradle 9 is backward incompatible with Gradle 8,
+#           and requires Java 17+ to run. In other words, if we switch to Gradle 9, then this project will
+#           no longer work with Java 8 and Java 11
 # - Java 26 (to be released in March 2026; to be deprecated in September 2026; not officially supported by Gradle)
 # - Java 27 (to be released in September 2026; to be deprecated in March 2027; not officially supported by Gradle)
 # - Java 28 (to be released in March 2027; to be deprecated in September 2027; not officially supported by Gradle)
+# - Java 29 (LTS; to be released in September 2027; not officially supported by Gradle)
+# - Java 30 (to be released in March 2028; to be deprecated in September 2028; not officially supported by Gradle)
 
 name: CS321_Cybersecurity CI with Gradle
 
@@ -27,7 +36,11 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        java: [ '8', '11', '17', '21', '24' ]
+        # This project is tested against all supported LTS versions
+        #
+        # For your team, you can keep only one version (i.e., the one every team member is using locally)
+        # in order to reduce the number of minutes used by GitHub Actions
+        java: [ '8', '11', '17', '21', '25' ]
     name: Java version ${{ matrix.Java }}
 
     steps:

README.md

@@ -47,13 +47,14 @@ Use the following command to check our installed JDK version:
 $ javac -version
 ```
 
-This project **does not work** with JDK 25 (to be released in September 2025).
+This project **does not work** with JDK 26 (to be released in March 2026).
 
 It is recommended to use any of the following versions:
 - JDK 8 (LTS)
 - JDK 11 (LTS)
 - JDK 17 (LTS)
 - JDK 21 (LTS)
+- JDK 25 (LTS)
 
 :book: See this [wiki page for additional details regarding the
 supported Java versions and links to download the correct JDK

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.4-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME