On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:27:10 GMT, Ambarish Rapte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gradle 9 onwards, the [Archive tasks (Jar, Ear, War, Zip, > AbstractArchiveTask) produce reproducible archives by > default](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/upgrading_major_version_9.html#reproducible_archives_by_default) > > Under this change, there are two factors that affect our zip files. > 1. Files have fixed timestamps (timestamps depends on the archive type). > 2. File order in the archive is now deterministic. > Especially the timestamp is a concern, the files now have a fixed timestamp > i.e. 1 Feb 1980 instead of the creation date. > > the [gradle upgrading > guide](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/upgrading_major_version_9.html#reproducible_archives_by_default) > provides the solution on how to restore previous behavior. The fix picks 2 > necessary flags. > > Verified that for all files extracted from generated zip files: > 1. Timestamp is now not fixed, and reflects the CREATION date. > 2. The file permissions are unchanged. All testing looks good, including with / without `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`. Please confirm that you have done a CI build. ------------- Marked as reviewed by kcr (Lead). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1993#pullrequestreview-3526547012
