If your PR includes any changes to the Gradle Public API, it will cause the binary compatibility check to fail.
The binary compatibility check runs as a part of the broader sanity check.
The latter runs on every PR and is a prerequisite for merging.

If you run the sanity check locally with the `./gradlew sanityCheck`, you can see the binary compatibility error in the output.
It looks like the following:

```

```
[MNG-XXX] - Subject of the JIRA Ticket
 Optional supplemental description.
```
+ Make sure you have added the necessary tests (JUnit/[Core IT tests][core-it]) for your changes.
+ Run all the tests with `mvn -Prun-its verify` to assure nothing else was accidentally broken.
+ Submit a pull request to the repository in the Apache organization.
+ Update your JIRA ticket and include a link to the pull request in the ticket.