Upgrade to Gradle 9.5.1

[jamesfredley]

Summary

Updates the Gradle wrapper from 9.4.1 to 9.5.1 across every wrapper location in this repo, plus the one Gradle 9.5 source compatibility fix needed to keep the forge build green.

Wrapper version updates

Synchronized to 9.5.1 in all 10 cross-referenced locations called out by the comment at the top of gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties:

• gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties (root)
• build-logic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-gradle/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-forge/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-profiles/base/skeleton/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-profiles/profile/skeleton/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-shell-cli/src/test/resources/gradle-sample/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
• grails-forge/grails-forge-core/.../gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw (forge generated app template)
• .sdkmanrc (gradle=9.5.1)
• gradle.properties (gradleToolingApiVersion=9.5.1)

Regenerated gradle-wrapper.jar, gradlew, and gradlew.bat in all eight locations that ship them:

• root, build-logic, grails-gradle, grails-forge
• grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/resources/gradle (the wrapper bundled into apps generated by forge)
• grails-profiles/base/skeleton, grails-profiles/profile/skeleton (the wrapper baked into the profile distributions)
• grails-shell-cli/src/test/resources/gradle-sample (test fixture)

This matches the pattern used by previous Gradle wrapper bumps (e.g. 1dae938260 Update Gradle wrapper files to 9.3.1, 66f6229306 Upgrade to Gradle 9.4.1). The root/forge/grails-gradle wrappers were regenerated through the existing gradle-bootstrap project; the remaining four locations were updated by copying the regenerated artifacts.

Gradle 9.5 source compatibility fix

grails-forge/grails-cli/build.gradle line 79 was using:

shadowCombined files(project(':grails-cli-shadow').tasks.named('shadowJar'))

Inside a dependencies {} block, project(':path') returns a DefaultProjectDependency, and Gradle 9.5 no longer exposes a .tasks accessor on that type. The same file already uses rootProject.project(':grails-forge-cli').tasks.named(...) on lines 206, 221, 227, and 233 for cross-project task references, so this PR aligns line 79 with that existing pattern:

shadowCombined files(rootProject.project(':grails-cli-shadow').tasks.named('shadowJar'))

The existing evaluationDependsOn(':grails-cli-shadow') on line 50 still guarantees the shadow project is configured before this lookup.

Verification

All CI jobs were exercised locally on JDK 21 (Corretto 21.0.10):

CI job	Local invocation	Result
codestyle.yml - Core	./gradlew codeStyle	pass
codestyle.yml - Gradle Plugin	cd grails-gradle && ./gradlew codeStyle	pass
codestyle.yml - Forge	cd grails-forge && ./gradlew codeStyle	pass
gradle.yml - validateDependencies (core)	./gradlew validateDependencyVersions	pass
gradle.yml - validateDependencies (gradle)	cd grails-gradle && ./gradlew validateDependencyVersions	pass
gradle.yml - buildGradle	cd grails-gradle && ./gradlew build	pass
gradle.yml - build	./gradlew build :grails-shell-cli:installDist groovydoc -PonlyCoreTests -PskipCodeStyle	pass (14m 5s)
gradle.yml - buildForge	cd grails-forge && ./gradlew build -PgrailsIndy=false -PskipCodeStyle	pass (9m 17s, 1585 tasks)
gradle.yml - functional	./gradlew bootJar check -PonlyFunctionalTests -PgebAtCheckWaiting -PskipHibernate5Tests -PskipMongodbTests -PskipCodeStyle	pass (7m 22s)
gradle.yml - hibernate5Functional	./gradlew bootJar check -PonlyHibernate5Tests -PskipCodeStyle	pass (571 tests, 0 failures)
gradle.yml - mongodbFunctional	./gradlew bootJar check -PonlyMongodbTests -PmongodbContainerVersion=8.0 -PskipCodeStyle	not verified locally - see below
gradle.yml - docs	./gradlew grails-doc:build	pass
gradle.yml - verifyWrapper (build half)	./gradlew :grails-wrapper:distZip	pass

./gradlew --version reports Gradle 9.5.1 from all four primary wrappers (root, build-logic, grails-gradle, grails-forge).

MongoDB functional tests

The mongodbFunctional job could not be verified locally because the WSL2 + Docker Desktop environment used to validate this PR cannot reach Testcontainers-spawned containers on their dynamic ports (the Ryuk reaper and the spawned mongo:8.0 containers both refuse connections from the test JVM). This is an environment limitation, not a Gradle 9.5.1 issue - the same Testcontainers stack runs identically against 9.4.1 in this environment. The job is expected to pass on GitHub Actions where Docker networking is set up normally.

Notes

• Gradle 9.5.1 prints deprecation warnings about features that will be removed in Gradle 10. These were already present on 9.4.1 and are not in scope for this bump.
• The build scan "Maximum custom value value length (100,000) exceeded: Git status" warning visible in some logs is from a local working tree with many stale stat-cache entries on this machine and does not appear on CI runners.

Branch

Targets 8.0.x. Branch prefix feat/ so the PR auto-labels as a feature per CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades the repository’s Gradle wrapper/tooling from 9.4.1 → 9.5.1 across the various wrapper distributions/templates shipped by Grails (root, build-logic, grails-gradle, grails-forge, profiles, and test fixtures), and applies a small build script adjustment needed for Gradle 9.5 compatibility in the forge build.

Changes:

• Bump Gradle wrapper distributions and Gradle Tooling API version to 9.5.1 across wrapper property files and SDKMAN config.
• Regenerate wrapper scripts (gradlew, gradlew.bat) in multiple embedded wrapper locations/templates.
• Fix a Gradle 9.5 incompatibility in grails-forge/grails-cli/build.gradle by updating the cross-project task reference to use rootProject.project(...).tasks.named(...).

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
grails-shell-cli/src/test/resources/gradle-sample/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script for the gradle-sample test fixture.
grails-shell-cli/src/test/resources/gradle-sample/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script for the gradle-sample test fixture.
grails-shell-cli/src/test/resources/gradle-sample/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated sample wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1.
grails-profiles/profile/skeleton/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script embedded in the profile skeleton.
grails-profiles/profile/skeleton/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script embedded in the profile skeleton.
grails-profiles/profile/skeleton/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated profile skeleton wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1.
grails-profiles/base/skeleton/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script embedded in the base skeleton.
grails-profiles/base/skeleton/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script embedded in the base skeleton.
grails-profiles/base/skeleton/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated base skeleton wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1.
grails-gradle/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script for the grails-gradle sub-repo.
grails-gradle/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script for the grails-gradle sub-repo.
grails-gradle/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated grails-gradle wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1 (and new wrapper properties).
grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/resources/gradle/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script shipped in forge-generated apps.
grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/resources/gradle/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script shipped in forge-generated apps.
grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw	Updated forge app template wrapper properties to Gradle 9.5.1.
grails-forge/grails-cli/build.gradle	Gradle 9.5 compatibility fix for cross-project shadowJar task reference.
grails-forge/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script for the grails-forge sub-repo.
grails-forge/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script for the grails-forge sub-repo.
grails-forge/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated grails-forge wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1 (and new wrapper properties).
gradlew.bat	Updated root Windows wrapper script.
gradlew	Updated root Unix wrapper script.
gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated root wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1 (and new wrapper properties).
gradle.properties	Updated gradleToolingApiVersion to 9.5.1.
build-logic/gradlew.bat	Updated Windows wrapper script for build-logic.
build-logic/gradlew	Updated Unix wrapper script for build-logic.
build-logic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updated build-logic wrapper distribution URL to Gradle 9.5.1.
.sdkmanrc	Updated SDKMAN Gradle version pin to 9.5.1.

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