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Just a quick post today about the new Blade 5.0 release...
It's out now, and you can update your local Blade using the blade update command.
blade update
This new release supports JDK 11.0.20+ (so you don't have to manually massage your settings.gradle files to support it), plus for new workspaces it will use Gradle 7 (7.3.3) as well as the latest workspace plugin versions.
For those of you who have not installed Blade itself, you can use the directions here for the manual install: https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/building-applications/tooling/blade-cli/installing-and-updating-blade-cli
If you have an old workspace, you might want to consider updating that old workspace by:
Unfortunately for those of you using the Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio or the Liferay Intellij plugin, those have not yet been updated for using Blade 5.0. And even more unfortunately, I have no ETA for when these will be updated to use Blade 5.
My recommendation - Install Blade manually, issue blade update from time to time, and use the command line to create your projects and modules. The IDEs (whichever one you use) should be able to deal with the changes made from outside the IDE (although you may be forced to refresh from time to time for major changes such as new modules and the like).
Let us know if you have any issues with Blade 5, Gradle 7, the new workspace, etc.