## Summary
- **New `basic` cache provider**: Adds an open-source (MIT-licensed)
caching implementation built on `@actions/cache` as an alternative to
the proprietary Enhanced Caching. Users can opt in with `cache-provider:
basic` on both `setup-gradle` and `dependency-submission` actions.
- **Revamped licensing & distribution docs**: Replaces the verbose
licensing notice block (previously shown in README, docs, and logs) with
a friendlier callout and a new dedicated
[DISTRIBUTION.md](./DISTRIBUTION.md) covering component licensing, usage
tiers, data privacy ("Safe Harbor"), and opt-out instructions.
- **Improved messaging**: Enhanced Caching and Basic Caching each
display concise, informative log messages and job summary notes instead
of the previous wall-of-text license warning.
- **New integration tests**: Adds `integ-test-basic-cache-provider.yml`
workflow that seeds and verifies the basic cache provider across
platforms, plus unit tests for `BasicCacheService` and `getCacheService`
selection logic.
- **CI workflow reorganization**: Dependency-submission integration
tests extracted into their own reusable suite
(`suite-integ-test-dependency-submission.yml`); sample project tests
moved into the caching suite.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces type descriptor YAML files for GitHub
Actions in the repository, improving type safety and documentation for
action inputs and outputs. It also adds a new GitHub Actions workflow to
validate these typings automatically on pushes and pull requests. The
changes are grouped into the addition of type descriptor files for
various actions and the automation of their validation.
https://github.com/typesafegithub/github-actions-typing
**Type descriptor files for GitHub Actions:**
* Added `action-types.yml` files to `setup-gradle`,
`dependency-submission`, and `wrapper-validation` actions, specifying
input and output types for each action to improve type safety and
documentation.
[[1]](diffhunk://#diff-542de74831b6dc1954ff20a4c329b170053c82087ea7df742bd536156133f25bR1-R171)
[[2]](diffhunk://#diff-44708a3af3d0f3cfed1873f9b77d7e815c6c14e941fa3dd5ed08835a69d67855R1-R146)
[[3]](diffhunk://#diff-3fe1028d7aa5ee815c90fa580d4f62e646f0b9a4b7372f227fc131a56948ace0R1-R17)
**Automation and validation:**
* Introduced a new GitHub Actions workflow
`.github/workflows/ci-validate-typings.yml` to automatically validate
action typings on pushes to `main` and `release/**` branches, as well as
on pull requests. This uses the `github-actions-typing` action for
validation.
Daz DeBoer