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+title: "ModDevGradle 2 Stable Release"
+date: 2025-01-02T15:30:00+01:00
+categories:
+- News
+author: technici4n
+summary: |
+    ModDevGradle 2 is stable. How to update, what changed, and what ModDevGradle is anyway.
+---
+
+ModDevGradle 2 is stable as of yesterday.
+We recommend that all ModDevGradle 1.0.x users update to ModDevGradle 2.0.x.
+The latest version can be found at all times [on the project listing](https://projects.neoforged.net/neoforged/moddevgradle).
+As of this blog post, it is `2.0.72`.
+
+## How to update to ModDevGradle 2
+Upgrade the version of the `net.neoforged.moddev` plugin in your build script to a `2.0.x` version,
+and fix any issues that arise from the upgrade.
+To help fix upgrade issues,
+we collected all breaking changes and suggested fixes on [this document](https://github.com/neoforged/ModDevGradle/blob/main/BREAKING_CHANGES.md).
+
+The [README](https://github.com/neoforged/ModDevGradle/blob/main/README.md) is also a good reference.
+
+Finally, help is available on [our Discord server](https://discord.neoforged.net),
+in the `#modder-support-gradle` channel.
+
+## What is ModDevGradle anyway?
+[ModDevGradle](https://github.com/neoforged/moddevgradle) is a new Gradle plugin for NeoForge mod development,
+focused on performance, simplicity, and ease of use.
+
+It is built on top of the following components:
+- [NeoFormRuntime](https://github.com/neoforged/NeoFormRuntime): A standalone tool to create decompiled and recompiled Minecraft artifacts. Moving these steps to a separate tool allows for easy testing and development of the decompilation-recompilation pipeline without Gradle's complexity getting in the way.
+- [GradleMinecraftDependencies](https://github.com/neoforged/GradleMinecraftDependencies): Gradle-friendly metadata containing Minecraft dependencies.
+- Additional Gradle metadata published in [NeoForm](https://github.com/neoforged/NeoForm).
+- Additional Gradle metadata published in [NeoForge](https://github.com/neoforged/NeoForge).
+
+Note that [NeoGradle](https://github.com/neoforged/NeoGradle/) continues to be supported.
+
+## Notable improvements in ModDevGradle 2
+Besides bug fixes and small improvements, here is a collection of notable changes in ModDevGradle 2:
+- Support for Forge versions 1.17 to 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.20.1, using a new legacy plugin.
+If you are still supporting 1.20.1 or older versions, we recommend that you upgrade from ForgeGradle to the MDG legacy plugin. More information about the legacy plugin is available on a [dedicated documentation page](https://github.com/neoforged/ModDevGradle/blob/main/LEGACY.md), and we are available to help on Discord.
+- Support for NeoForge 1.20.4 and 1.20.6. All versions starting from 1.21 continue to be supported, of course.
+- Streamlined support for [DevLogin](https://github.com/covers1624/DevLogin), an implementation of the Minecraft authentication protocol for development environments.
+- Support for Visual Studio Code launch configurations.
+- Support for command-line launch scripts, for usage with debugging tools such as Render Doc, Nsight, perf, etc...
+  They can be generated using the `gradlew createLaunchScripts` task,
+  and will be available under `build/moddev/runXxx.{cmd|sh}`.
+
+Additionally, (a subset of) ModDevGradle is now used to develop NeoForge itself.