@adonnini it’s not really about the upcoming release though. The main ask was no matter what version you use or what app you’re building just do some up front detective work with the gradle command I gave you so you know what’s being included in your app.
Apologies about deeplearing4j-core there. The UX there is mainly a legacy problem. core used to be a lot smaller and most people want computer vision. The getting started experience and some docs you might have read might have caused you to add those dependencies.
We cover this in the docs: https://deeplearning4j.konduit.ai/multi-project/how-to-guides/developer-docs/javacpp?_ga=2.76737749.1727359973.1678519791-1311874114.1665963924#platform-dependencies
It’s also been asked before: Optimising dl4j deployment size