Improvements

• Update Kotlin Gradle Plugin to 1.8.10 and Android Gradle Plugin to 4.1.3.
• Move the "Properties" block to be above functions inside the "Members" tab (#2908)
• Make Javadoc tag parsing case-sensitive as per Javadoc specification (#2907)
• Improve performance by reducing allocations and thus decreasing time spent in GC (#2729)

Bugfixes

• Fix unresolved links leading to declarations from another source set #2878
• Fix Dokka not failing the build if there are errors (#2934), regression from 1.8.10. Thanks to @jush!
• Fix TypeNotPresentException thrown in projects without KGP (#2890), regression from 1.8.10.

Gradle plugin

• Start using kotlin-dsl plugin (#2702, #2833). Thanks to @aSemy!
• Use Gradle filesystem types for task properties and apply default values lazily (#2707, #2983). Thanks to @aSemy!

Plugin API

• Change the default logging level of console apps (DokkaConsoleLogger) to PROGRESS (#2871)
• Introduce @InternalDokkaApi annotation (#2904)
• Mark various utility API as Dokka-internal (#2937)

Infrastructure

Big thanks to @aSemy, @Goooler and @3flex for their valuable contributions and for improving the internal
developer experience when working on Dokka!

• Use convention plugins to configure the subprojects (#2704 by @aSemy)
• Use Gradle Version Catalog and type-safe project dependencies (#2884 by @aSemy)
• Migrate buildSrc to a composite build (#2912 by @Goooler)
• Tidy up build configurations and project files (#2911, #2930, #2909, #2946, #2910, #2705 by @aSemy)
• Execute unit tests in parallel (#2953 by @Goooler)
• Add the ability to use different Java versions for build and test tasks (#2918 by @aSemy)
• Add reproducible archive build config (#2947 by @aSemy)
• Configure Kotlin compiler options lazily (#2883 by @Goooler)
• Improve GitHub Actions workflows (#2939, #2938 by @Goooler)
• Stop testing on Java 15 as it has reached EOL (#2892 by @3flex)
• Remove a workaround for a fixed Gradle issue (#2891 by @3flex)

Documentation

• Add informational badges to the main README.md (#2940). Thanks to @Goooler!
• Fix typos, inconsistencies and incorrect links in documentation (#2979, #2973, #2952). Thanks to @LiYing2010, @strangesource and @ansman!
• Add more information about the infrastructure to CONTRIBUTING.md (#2952)

Security

• Bump npm dependencies to address various vulnerabilities (#2894, #2923)

Other

• Update publication POM links to https (#2931). Thanks to @aSemy!
• Tidy up Gradle example projects and warning suppressions (#2916, #2975). Thanks to @aSemy!