This is a fairly big release! We have some ground to cover.
This release updates to Gradle 8.10! This allows generated projects to be built by Java 23, which comes out in about a month. However, it also requires users to build with a JDK 17 or newer (both JDK 17 and JDK 21 are LTS releases that work fine with this). So, really, we mean it this time, use Java 17 or newer! You can always target a lower language level in Liftoff's last options page (or on the right if using the full-screen view), and your generated JARs will be compatible down to that language level.
There's some extra effort to find an IDEA installation thanks to @lyze237 . There are some Construo improvements thanks to @fourlastor and @TCreutzenberg . There are wide variety of UI improvements thanks to @raeleus . And @Frosty-J noticed a typo!
There are various library updates. There are various language updates by default, such as to Kotlin 1.9.25 and Groovy 4.0.22 . There are some new libraries (TexturePackerOnly and TextureUnpackerOnly).
Liftoff has the option to use a Construo-built native executable for itself, in case you don't have a globally installed JDK but you can run native executables for your OS. You can still download a smaller JAR file if you can run those easily!
I hope this release works smoothly for you! Best of luck!