better patch level support (#1189) #393

Job	Run time
setup	2s
Gradle build on macos-latest	18m 25s
Gradle build on macos-15-intel	10m 13s
Gradle build on windows-latest	10m 30s
Gradle build on ubuntu-latest	6m 12s
Nightly prerelease (master)	26s
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