In the previous release the Version Control system would exit if the software could not be found in the local maven repository. It transpiers that the location of the maven ~/.m2/repository is not consistent accross different Unix/Linux implementations. So instead of exiting the software if the repository cannot be found a strong warning is issued.
The gradle.build file assumes the location of a gradle.properties file. The gradle.properties file holds the gpr.user and gpr.key values for the user when accessing Github releases. This file is now assumed to be stored relative to the users home directory in a folder called .github. Yet again this may be inconsistent for some Unix-based systems.