Java serialization is inherently Java-centric and does not support cross-language scenarios well.

- **Type Safety:**
Java serialization does not enforce type safety as strictly as some alternatives, potentially leading to runtime errors.

## Decision

We do not use Java serialization.
Instead, we use custom serialization where we explicitly describe how data objects should be serialized and deserialized.

import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive
import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity
import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
import org.gradle.work.DisableCachingByDefault

/**
 * A task used for cleaning up all accepted API changes. The functionality is called whenever the release process initiates "branching".
 */
@DisableCachingByDefault(because = "Not worth caching")
class CleanAcceptedApiChanges extends DefaultTask {

    val logger = Logging.getLogger(CachesCleaner::class.java)

    fun cleanUpCaches() {
        synchronized(this) {
            if (hasCleaned) {
                return
            }
            logger.lifecycle("Cleaning up caches...")
            val homeDir = parameters.homeDir.get()

            homeDir.asFile.listFiles()?.filter { it.name.startsWith("distributions-") }?.forEach {
                val workerDir = homeDir.dir(it.name)

See the [discovery document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-oKG23gLdx2D2uJvzir31AhDFyqSf81LDESfKKCU28c/edit#heading=h.pps74pn68uvk) (internal document) for more context.

### Platforms

The platforms and their architecture modules are:

#### Core automation platform

    "groups" : [ {
      "testProject" : "largeJavaMultiProjectNoBuildSrc",
      "coverage" : {
        "per_commit" : [ "linux" ]
      }
    } ]
  }, {
    "testId" : "org.gradle.performance.regression.java.JavaConfigurationCachePerformanceTest.assemble loading configuration cache state with hot daemon",
    "groups" : [ {

        () => '[^/]'
    ],

    // leading slash
    [

        // > A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
        // > For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
        // A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname
        /^\//,
        () => '^'
    ],

    // replace special metacharacter slash after the leading slash
    [
        /\//g,